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Voices in Transplant
Perspectives from the organ donation and transplant community driving innovation, improvement and insights to save lives together
Introducing UNet℠ Image Sharing
“UNet Image Sharing will make the organ allocation process more secure and more convenient for members.”
Why I volunteer: UNOS ambassador Monette Rockymore
United Network for Organ Sharing volunteers are united around a common purpose — saving lives together.
Improving DonorNet Mobile℠
“The community has been involved every step of the way in developing the new DonorNet Mobile application.”
Why I volunteer: Lisa Matthias, Henrico Doctors’ Hospital
Community members unite and strengthen the donation and transplantation community.
Using data to save lives
Neelam Singh’s business intelligence and data products team works with the community to build effective, efficient and user-friendly data tools.
“Saving children is about preserving our future.”
Pediatric transplant surgeon George V. Mazariegos, M.D., on new liver distribution policy
Introducing UNOS’ new mission and vision statements
A message from the Board of Directors president Maryl Johnson, M.D.
Making liver distribution more fair and equitable
New liver allocation policy will save more lives according to statistical modeling under the new liver and intestine distribution policy.
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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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INNOVATION,
IMPROVEMENT
& INSIGHTS
Innovating to strengthen the organ transplant system
UNOS Labs tries out new ideas in behavioral research, data science and technology. Our researchers develop innovative solutions to improve the national organ network and increase organ utilization.
Capital Pride: WRTC on being meaningful community advocates all year round
D.C. OPO’s LGBTQIA+ advocacy work increases organ donation.
Trailblazing physician broke barriers to become nation’s first Black female transplant surgeon
Dr. Velma Scantlebury-White, who has performed more than 2,000 transplants in her career, says there have been significant changes in terms of achieving equity access in the allocation system for minority patients, but some issues persist.
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