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Voices in Transplant
Perspectives from the organ donation and transplant community driving innovation, improvement and insights to save lives together
“The waitlist can’t wait”: Jennifer Prinz on taking a people-first approach during COVID-19
“The donation and transplantation community has had to adapt, all with a clear focus to continue to save lives during the pandemic.”
The road to racial equity in kidney transplantation
Jerry McCauley, M.D. discusses improvement in access to transplantation for minority waitlist candidates and talks about what still needs to be done.
In spite of the pandemic, we’re performing more deceased-donor organ transplants than in years past
UNOS Board of Directors vice president/president-elect Matthew Cooper, M.D., says policies to improve the transplant system must look at the whole picture, not just one part of it.
36 years later: An organ donor’s parents’ story
Thirty-six years after they lost their son, Matthew, Milt and Janet Bemis reflect on the decision to give the gift of life to a family they had never met.
National Minority Donor Awareness Month: An interview with an organ donor’s father
Hear Tommy Page, whose daughter saved four lives through the gift of life, discuss the importance of talking about organ donation with minority communities.
OPO CEO Charlie Alexander on increasing organ recovery during COVID-19
The Living Legacy Foundation CEO Charlie Alexander talks about increasing organ recovery during COVID-19.
“Can do, passion and caring”: OPO CEO Jeff Orlowski on embracing change during COVID-19
“Protecting both staff and our mission have driven us from the very beginning.”
Bridging the gap
With support from a $100,000 grant from the Mendez National Institute of Transplantation Foundation, researchers are partnering to address the gap in scientific knowledge about the association between kidney biopsy results and transplant survival outcomes.
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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
Nashville’s Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West’s focus on quality improvement
Heather Marshall of Ascension Saint Thomas West Hospital on the education and peer support initiative her program helped pilot.
The ethical implications of continuing living donor transplants during COVID-19
Paper offers rationale and recommendations for continuing living donor transplantation when resources are stretched
IN FOCUS
New milestone reached in kidney donation and transplant
For the first time, more than 25,000 kidney transplants were performed in a single year