Archived regional presentations
Review presentations, summaries and other documents from previous regional meetings:
UNOS updates
Summer 2020
Innovations at UNOS!
Learn about the many ways UNOS and the transplant community are working together to improve and transform the national transplant system. This session identifies insights leading to further innovations, and pilot-testing concepts and ideas with high impact to saving lives.
- Organ Tracking Pilot
- Liver Paired Exchange Program
- Simulation Modeling Development
- Clinical Decision Support Tools
Watch the recorded session below and learn about other innovations at UNOS LabsSM.
Recorded Aug. 27, 2020
Winter 2020
View “UNOS Innovation Regional Update Winter 2020” presentation.
View the UNOS Innovations Session Winter 2020 webinar.
During this webinar, UNOS highlights the following innovation projects:
- Understanding cold ischemic time
- Natural language processing
- Predictive analytics
Committee and public comment presentations
Spring 2019 Public Comment Presentations
Discussion agenda
- Eliminate the Use of Donation Service Areas (DSAs) in Thoracic Distribution (Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee)
- Eliminate the Use of Regions in VCA Distribution (VCA Transplantation Committee)
- Ethical Implications of Multi-Organ Transplants (Ethics Committee)
- Expedited Placement of Livers (OPO Committee)
- Guidance on Effective Practices for Broader Distribution (Operations & Safety Committee)
- MELD Exception Scores during NLRB Transition (Executive Committee)
- Removal of DSA and Region from Kidney and Pancreas Distribution (Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation Committees)
- Split Liver Variance (Liver and Intestinal Transplantation Committee)
Non-discussion agenda
- Modify HOPE Act Variance to Include Other Organs (Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee)
- Clarifications on Reporting Maintenance Dialysis (Living Donor Committee)
Spring 2019 Committee Presentations
- Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee (presented at meeting)
- Pediatric Committee (presented at meeting)
- Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (presented at meeting)
- Histocompatibility Committee
- Patient Affairs Committee
- Transplant Coordinators Committee
- Vascularized Composite Allograft Transplantation Committee
Fall 2018 Public Comment Presentations
Fall 2018 Committee Presentations
Spring 2018: Public comment presentations
Non-discussion agenda
- Ethics – Manipulation of the Waitlist Priority of the Organ Allocation System through the Escalation of Medical Therapies
- VCA – Align VCA Transplant Program Membership Requirements with Requirements of Other Solid Organ Transplant Programs
- VCA – Guidance on Optimizing VCA Recovery from Deceased Donors
- Operations and Safety – Guidance for ABO Subtyping Organ Donors for Blood Groups A and AB
- OPO – Guidance on Requested Deceased Donor Information
- Thoracic – Review Board Guidance for Hypertrophic and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy Exception Requests
- Thoracic – Modification of the Lung Transplant Follow-up Form (TRF) to Better Characterize Longitudinal Change in Lung following Transplantation
Discussion agenda
- Thoracic – Modification to the Distribution of Deceased Donor Lungs
- OPO – Expedited Placement Concept Paper
- DTAC – Clarify Informed Consent Policy for Transmittable Diseases
- OSC – Extra Vessels: Reducing Reporting Burdens & Clarifying Policies
- Pancreas – Change Waiting Time Criteria for Kidney-Pancreas Candidates
- MPSC – Appendix L Revisions
- Executive – 2018-2021 OPTN Strategic Plan
- Executive – Improving the OPTN/UNOS Committee Structure
Spring 2018: Committee presentations
Fall 2017: Public comment presentations
Non-discussion agenda
- Ethics – Living Organ Donation by Persons with Certain Fatal Diseases Who Meet the Criteria to Be Living Organ Donors
- Histocompatibility – Review of HLA Tables (2016)
- MPSC – Addressing Approved Transplant Fellowship Training Programs Bylaws
- Minority Affairs – Guidance for Transplant Program Participation in the Transplantation of non-A1/non-A1B (A2/A2B) Donor Kidneys into Blood Group B Candidates
- Pancreas – Guidance on the Benefits of Pancreas After Kidney (PAK) Transplantation
- Pediatric – Revisions to Pediatric Emergency Membership Exception Pathway
- Thoracic – Regional Review Board Guidance for Adult Congenital Heart Disease Exception Requests
Discussion agenda
Fall 2017: Committee presentations
Fall 2017: Summary, Agenda, Data and More
Spring 2017: Public comment presentations
Non-discussion agenda
- Executive – Rewrite of Bylaws Article II: Board of Directors
- Histocompatibility – Histocompatibility Lab Bylaws & Policies Guidance Document