UNOS welcomes new board members
Members of the national organ donation and transplantation community have elected 22 people to the UNOS Board of Directors.
Is natural language processing useful in predicting organ acceptance?
UNOS data scientists explore donor admission text to help understand and predict how kidney acceptance decisions are made
Field notification addresses perfusion circuit sample port
Recall affects specified lots of Organ Recovery Systems’ LKT200 Perfusion Circuit Sample Port
System notice: Liver and intestinal organ distribution based on acuity circles implemented Feb. 4
As of Tuesday, Feb. 4, the liver and intestine distribution system based on acuity circles is in effect. This included a conversion of each transplant hospital’s median MELD at transplant (MMaT) score to reflect transplants performed at hospitals within a radius of 250 nautical miles.
New national liver and intestinal organ transplant system in effect Feb. 4, 2020
New national liver and intestinal organ transplant system based on acuity circles implemented Feb. 4, 2020
UNOS hosts briefing for congressional staff members
At the invitation of the Congressional Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Awareness Caucus, UNOS representatives presented a briefing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 29.
The most active living donor liver transplant programs
Living liver transplants increased in 2019. University Hospital in San Antonio is among those growing their programs and performing more transplants.
Nominees chosen for 2020 Board of Directors election
At its December 2019 meeting, the Board of Directors approved the following slate of nominees for Board appointments beginning in July 2020.
Upcoming changes to histocompatibility and CPRA display in UNet
The OPTN policy on addressing HLA typing errors will take effect on Feb. 27.
Introducing UNOS’ new mission and vision statements
Board of Directors President Maryl Johnson, M.D., shares UNOS’ new mission and vision statements.