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Voices in Transplant
Perspectives from the organ donation and transplant community driving innovation, improvement and insights to save lives together
Donor mother honors her son
My son’s story did not end with his death.
Five years of HOPE Act; observations from Sander Florman, M.D.
Transplant program director at the hospital performing the most HOPE Act transplants reflects on its significance at the five-year milestone.
UNOS associate data scientist Carlos Martinez uses machine learning to interpret kidney allocation rates
Carlos Martinez and Andrew Placona were among more than two dozen UNOS researchers to present at the 2020 American Transplant Congress.
“Transplant system that saved my life is under threat”
Heart transplant recipient calls for involving stakeholders to improve the system.
“Honor organ donors by saving procurement organizations”
Donor mom advocates for thoughtful reform to improve entire transplant system.
“Organ donation is under threat”
An OPO leader worries that new rules will result in fewer lifesaving transplants.
“Rule change could endanger our organ transplant system”
Transplant surgeon calls for systemic reforms to build on success of transplant system.
Researchers say OPTN modified heart policy achieving stated goals
Research shows a 2018 modified heart policy is achieving most of its intended goals of stratifying candidates and providing broader access to the most medically urgent patients.
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Idea incubator
UNOS Labs is a collaborative space where UNOS’ behavioral scientists, biostatisticians, data scientists, and developers partner with donation and transplantation experts to work toward solutions that will make the transplant system more efficient and increase transplants.
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Partnering with experts in fields outside of donation and transplant
Leading experts in other fields across the country and around the world help build the continuous distribution framework
Working collaboratively to enhance system performance and improve transplant program monitoring metrics
MPSC’s proposed changes to performance monitoring to go out for public comment in August.
UNOS research: Insights from the American Transplant Congress
“There is so much intellectual capital assembled at UNOS to study and evaluate the transplant system and find ways to improve through research and analytics.”
IN FOCUS
Analyzing equity in access to kidney transplants in the COVID-19 era
Data show transplants for four major ethnic groups rebounded after initial decline, Hispanics had steepest decline and smallest rebound.