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• National Donor Memorial Announced
• UNOS Dedicates the National Donor Memorial
• Kirby Foundation Awards UNOS a $1 Million Grant
• UNOS Memorial Honors Transplant Professionals Who Have Died In Life-Giving Service
• UNOS Foundation Establishes Planned Giving Society
• UNOS Rededicates National Donor Memorial, Presents First Award of Excellence
• Vermont Man Honored with National Award of Excellence for Organ Donation Advocacy
• Read the New DTAC News to Learn about Efforts to Coordinate Case Reviews
• UNOS is your Partner in Patient Safety; Keep Us in the Loop!
• Toolkit available to assist programs in sharing donor and recipient information
• New Jersey Man Honored with National Award of Excellence for Organ Donation Advocacy
• Board approves publication of two committee guidance documents
• Michigan Woman Honored with National Donor Memorial Award for Excellence
• UNOS applauds Congressional passage of HOPE Act
• AST offers transplant professionals webinars and resources
• Social Worker Honored with NDM Award for Excellence
• Public forum addresses equity in liver distribution; resources available on OPTN and UNOS websites
• Public forum addresses equity in liver distribution
• Liver forum presentations, videos available
• Liver forum provides key feedback
• Liver forum provides key feedback for additional committee discussion
• New pancreas transplant policies take effect
• Liver Committee Chair on status of liver distribution discussion
• Transplant Network Reaches Milestone of 500,000 Deceased Donor Organ Transplants
• Florida Donor Parents Honored with NDM Award for Excellence
• Liver forum and committee update from David Mulligan, M.D., chair, OPTN/UNOS Liver Committee
• Need help updating the infectious disease acceptance criteria on your candidate records?
• Hope Act update
• Revised liver policy regarding HCC exception scores
• Policy and system changes adding serum sodium to MELD calculation
• MTS, Donor Alliance Receive Baldrige Recognition
• Policy and system changes effective January 11, 2016, adding serum sodium to MELD calculation
• Organ Recipient Honored with National Donor Memorial Award for Excellence for the first time
• Recent DonorNet Changes to the Donor Feedback Form and TIEDI Deceased Donor Registration (DDR) Form
• New kidney waitlist management tool now available in UNet
• Fallen Soldier Donor Memorial Unveiling
• TransNet application version updates
• Denise Kinder Named Strategic Development Officer of Donor Network West
• Sean Van Slyck Named COO of Donor Network West
• 2016 UNOS member survey results
• Barry Friedman named senior administrative director of Florida Hospital Transplant Institute
• Jerome Menendez named new Executive Director for Lifesharing Of The Carolinas
• Upcoming UNOS system maintenance on Tues. Dec. 6 from 9-10p.m.
• OPTN/UNOS Board Places Indiana Donor Network on Probation
• Probation ended for Baptist Memorial Hospital
• UNOS wins international technology award
• OPTN/UNOS Board approves revised adult heart allocation system, clarifies exception points for liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma
• Imminent and eligible definition data reporting changes
• Changes to requirements for donor information shipped with organs
• UNOS researchers examine rise in kidney discard rate
• UNOS researchers examine rise in kidney discard rate over time
• OPOs need to transition to new organ transport labels throughout 2017
• December 2016 board meeting actions
• Phase I of COIIN pilot begins in January
• New CEO Named at Texas Organ Sharing Alliance
• U.S. organ transplants, deceased donors set record in 2016
• New instructional recording available: DTAC and CDC Collaborative Case Reviews
• Waitlist enhancement allows you to edit SSN
• Marilou Donley named COO/CFO at Texas Organ Sharing Alliance
• Most recent update (Jan. 29) on the bacterial contamination of SPS-1
• Change to Waitlist field regarding pediatric lung candidates now in place
• Upcoming network maintenance on UNOS systems
• Message boards to UNet KPD system now available
• UNOS Mini-Primers offer members detailed, intensive learning
• New cultural competency instructional video now available
• In Memoriam – Thomas Starzl, M.D.
• UNOS again named top workplace
• DoT's new e-bulletin on research grant results
• FDA Alert Addresses Potentially Contaminated SPS-1 Static Preservation Solution
• Transplant program approvals and future pediatric component requirements
• Special public comment period begins March 27 for guidance document
• Explanation text box added to Improving Patient Safety Portal
• OPOs: Toxoplasmosis testing of all donors is now required
• Applications coming in May for second cohort of COIIN pilot
• Welcome to DonorNet® Mobile
• Recent UNet enhancements
• Stay up to date on recent policy changes
• OPOs will soon be required to submit PDTR form electronically
• Instructional video explains upcoming simultaneous liver-kidney policy and reporting requirements
• UNet user login and session management changes
• Adding OR date and time alerts to DonorNet
• UNOS Researchers Present Studies at American Transplant Congress
• UNOS Researchers Presented Studies at American Transplant Congress
• Application period is open for second cohort of COIIN pilot
• Reminder of policy resources
• Attendees rate 2017 TMF a success!
• Use the UNOS service portal for data requests
• New Topics available soon in transplant coordinator learning series
• Policy clarification – Pre-transplant crossmatch requirements
• Julie Bergin named President and CEO at Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates
• UNOS announces national donor memorial award winner
• OPTN/UNOS Board Places Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital on Probation
• OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors releases Methodist Hospital Laboratory from probation
• Guidance regarding donor Toxoplasma screening and organ acceptance
• New fields added in Waitlist to help you prepare for simultaneous liver-kidney allocation (SLK) policy changes
• OPTN/UNOS Board approves national board to review exception priority for liver transplant candidates, guidance document for transplant candidate education
• Call for nominations for the 2018-2019 OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors
• Board approves national liver review board and patient guidance
• Hospitals chosen for second phase of COIIN pilot
• Recovery and Usage Maps (RUM) Report debuts at AOPO Meeting
• Lauren Quinn Joins LifeGift Executive Leadership Team as Managing Director of Hospital Development
• See Spring 2017 program and opo-specific reports on SRTR secure site
• Journal article chronicles efforts to revise adult heart allocation policy
• Feedback wanted on issues related to organ recovery travel
• UNet enhancement in Waitlist: Donor ID added to Prior Donor HLA report
• Kidney allocation system updates in DonorNet
• Liver and Intestinal Transplantation Committee Updates June 2017
• Heart of the matter ethics webinar series by UNOS
• Data in focus – kidney transplants for highly sensitized recipients
• Voluntary recall of Cardinal Health brand sterile conventional syringes and needles
• Resources and training to prepare you for SLK changes
• A message to the transplant community
• Two-year analysis shows effects of kidney allocation system
• Odds for receiving a kidney transplant now equal for black, white and Hispanic candidates
• UNOS Organ Center at 35: A vital link with the transplant community
• Register Now for TFCA Annual Workshop
• Coming August 29: HLA Equivalency Table Update and addition of DQA1 equivalences
• New membership application forms in effect September 1
• Reminder: multiple guidance documents and resources are available
• Simultaneous liver-kidney allocation (SLK) policy changes now in effect
• Modeling results available for liver proposal
• Staff Changes at STA
• Blood type B candidates transplanted faster with non-A1/non-A1B kidneys
• TIEDI® enhancements allow for self service on recipient follow up forms
• New Implementation date for HLA Equivalency Table Update and addition of DQA1 equivalences
• Upcoming Enhancement to Patient Safety Contact List
• Adding acceptor sequence number to ROOT Report in UNet
• In Memoriam – Gene A. Pierce
• Hurricane Preparedness
• We’ve updated the HLA Equivalency Tables and added DQA1 equivalences
• Public comment is open
• OPTN/UNOS committee members needed; contact us
• Final modeling data available for liver proposal
• Change to MPSC outcomes review process meant to encourage kidney utilization, transplants
• New Donor ABO Audit Log in DonorNet®
• Liver webinar to address modeling data and get additional proposal feedback
• Register for live webinar to learn about changing heart allocation policy
• Mac users can now access UNet while using Google Chrome
• New Histocompatibility General Supervisor Key Personnel Requirement
• Board of Directors releases University Hospitals of Cleveland from probation
• Board releases University Hospitals of Cleveland from probation
• Next phase of COIIN underway
• DonorNet enhanced to add transplant center name for primary on-call contact
• Compromise liver proposal to advance for board consideration
• Webinar to discuss liver proposal
• OPOs and UNOS collaborate on new UNet enhancements
• TransNet required for VCA organs on November 1
• Adding five infectious disease tests to DonorNet®
• Reporting key personnel changes
• New data submission compliance report
• Data in Focus: Transplants continue under HOPE Act
• Policy modification to lung distribution sequence
• TransNet System Support: Android Release
• TransNet System Support
• TransNet System Compatibility
• TransNet Application Version Update
• Coming Soon: New TransNet Report in UNet Data Services Portal
• Implementation of TransNet application updates
• Coming Soon: TransNet will be required for VCA organs
• TransNet Application Reminder
• At two years, HOPE Act still offering hope
• Board approves enhanced liver distribution system
• Board of Directors releases Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency from Member Not in Good Standing
• Board addresses organ placement efficiency, en bloc kidney allocation
• Improvements to Report of Organ Offers (ROO)
• Important Disease Transmission Reporting Clarification
• Adding HLA equivalency table screening to OPTN kidney paired donation system
• HCC automatic approval criteria updated
• Nominees Chosen for Board of Directors Election
• Clarification: recent update to HCC auto-approval policy
• New Intestine Program Applications and Bylaws
• Special public comment proposal for HCC auto approval criteria
• Resolve to learn more in 2018
• New Year – New TransplantLiving.org
• Deceased organ donors in United States exceeded 10,000 for first time in 2017
• Enhancements to notifications in DonorNet
• Committee to address geographic aspects of organ distribution
• Public comment sought
• New form for prior living donor waiting list priority
• Change to messaging IP addresses for organ offers
• COIIN participants – share your insights at Learning Congress
• Transplant coordinator learning series
• Policy change: Automatic approval of exception extensions for certain HCC candidates
• Upcoming pediatric transplant program component requirements
• TIEDI system enhancement to add PX ID to patient history search results
• Bill Hasskamp joins the DMG Registry Web Portal as Program Director
• Similar survival rates for PAK and SPK transplants
• Data elements in Center STAR Files will be updated on June 4, 2018
• DonorNet® Mobile upgraded for OPO users
• UNOS and Walgreens announce transplant research project
• Temporary interruption of TIEDI services the morning of Feb. 28
• OPTN/UNOS summit to address OPO, transplant center, system metrics
• Histocompatibility General Supervisor Key Personnel Requirement Now in Effect
• Learn how programs are performing non-A1, non-A1B transplants
• UNOS named a 2018 top workplace in Richmond
• Notice addresses organ preservation solution
• Access UNOS Resources during Patient Safety Awareness Week
• Training series highlights tools in the Data Services portal
• New addition to UNOS histocompatibility learning series
• Recently updated online help
• OPTN/UNOS Board members named
• OPO site survey process evolving and improving
• UNOS celebrates 34th anniversary founding
• Southwest Transplant Alliance names regional director
• Smithfield Foods Donation Helps Fund the Development of Life-saving Technology
• Interactive living kidney donor follow-up dashboard available
• We’ve updated the OPO Report of Organ Offers (ROO) based on your feedback
• Encourage donor registrations at your OPO or Transplant Center
• Identify and correct data discrepancies using monthly reports
• TIEDI enhancements allow for self-service on living donor follow-up forms
• New booklet advises parents of pediatric transplant patients
• Change to Immunosuppressive Medications Section in TIEDI
• Quarterly Update of Standardized Benchmark Reports Available
• OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors releases Indiana Donor Network and Gulf Coast Medical Center from probation
• A message from Brian Shepard about an upcoming member survey
• Keep patient safety contact info current
• Coming Soon: 5-Tier Outcome Assessment Update
• 2018 UNOS TMF breaks records and earns high ratings
• Additional data elements in Center STAR files available June 4
• Schedule of upcoming heart, liver policy actions
• UNOS Researchers Present Studies at American Transplant Congress
• UNOS announces 2018 National Donor Memorial Award winner
• RUM report recently expanded to include other organs
• OPTN/UNOS Board adopts principles of geographic organ distribution
• Education available for DonorNet organ offer system changes
• Improving organ placement processes in DonorNet®
• OPOs: new shipping labels required July 1, 2018
• OPO benchmark reports now available
• Frequently asked questions about DonorNet organ offer system changes
• Resources related to geographic distribution discussion
• Upcoming heart allocation policy change
• Improving the transplant system with collaborative research
• Call for Nominations for the 2019-2020 OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors
• Lung program clinical trial begins July 9
• New wait time request forms available in UNet
• Changes to Adult Heart Allocation Policy Effective this Fall
• Spring 2018 OSRs Upcoming Release, PSRs Delay
• New educational offerings for transplant social workers
• Plan now for the next UNOS Primer - October 9 in Minneapolis
• Liver distribution update
• Updated resources for geographic distribution
• PDF versions of status justification forms now available in UNet
• Constituent Council initiative tests options to improve committee structure
• Recently published white paper explores ethical aspects of manipulating waitlist priority
• Recall notice affects IV solutions
• WPFL recognizes transplant centers for organ donation awareness efforts
• Ad Hoc Committee formed to address OPO, transplant center, system metrics
• New Name, Same Mission
• COIIN Learning Congress shared key lessons
• Newly available VCA resources
• Visit from the MPSC? “Don’t freak out”
• NLRB, liver distribution implementation postponed
• Learn more about the OPTN KPD program with a new dashboard
• “Grateful” for the journey with MPSC
• UNOS upgrading member data platform
• Currently accepting nominations for open committee positions
• OPTN disaster relief information refresher
• Now Available on the SRTR Secure Website: the Delayed Spring 2018 PSRs
• You can now submit new status justification forms for adult heart and heart/lung candidates
• UNOS and transplant professionals collaborate on innovation, improvements
• Donor hospital location updates
• SRTR modeling results are available for liver distribution proposal
• Refreshed Data Services portal; more options, easier to use
• Temporary changes on DonorNet match results page
• Special public comment period addresses liver distribution
• Applications coming soon regarding definition of transplant hospital
• Download the 2019 scorecard for HRSA's WPFL campaign
• The new adult heart allocation policy takes effect this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018
• The new adult heart allocation policy is now in effect
• New UNOS service portal
• We've updated UNOS Login Banner Language on UNet
• Your UNet security administrator helps keep UNOS systems safe
• HLA equivalency tables are changing in Dec. to include new values and other enhancements
• Learn more about National Liver Review Board
• Updates from kidney and pancreas committees regarding geographic distribution issues
• Liver distribution proposal advances for board consideration
• Thank you for participating in UNOS’ member survey!
• UNOS wins contract to continue as national transplant network
• Committee defines key drivers of system performance
• Jill, liver recipient
• Three years of HOPE
• How we can improve UNOS systems to make things easier for you?
• OPTN/UNOS Board approves updated liver distribution system
• We've updated HLA equivalency tables and added new values and other enhancements
• SRTR modeling results available for kidney and pancreas distribution proposal
• Recall notice affects Sodium chloride vials
• 2019 DonorNet® imaging study pilot
• 100 people transplanted thanks to HOPE Act
• Transplant center staff: create and share your custom reports with others in Waitlist
• Public meeting to finalize recommendations for transplant system performance
• OPTN/UNOS operations not affected by partial federal shutdown
• Deceased donor kidney recipient ethnicity reflects waiting list
• 2018 living donor transplants increase 11 percent
• Organ transplants in United States set sixth consecutive record in 2018
• Upcoming policy implementation reminder for labs and OPOs
• 5-Tier System Moving from Beta Site to Public Site
• Public comment open January 22 through March 22, 2019
• Nominees Chosen for Board of Directors Election
• Annual UNOS staffing survey
• Getting patients ready for transplant sooner
• Creating the first national donor image sharing hub
• Creating the first national donor image sharing hub
• DonorNet® imaging study pilot in 2019
• Image sharing: Q&A with Donor Network West
• Coming Soon! Transplantpro.org is merging with unos.org
• National Liver Review Board implementation postponed
• Study finds effective outcomes for A2 to B transplants
• Improving patient readiness in the kidney waitlist
• Achieving a shorter, more active kidney waitlist
• COIIN Results: Increasing the use of high KDPI kidneys
• 2019 annual UNOS request for information is available
• Saint Barnabas Medical Center recognized for excellence
• Geographic distribution efforts ongoing
• March System Performance Committee meeting
• TMF Session Highlights
• New Board members named
• Reducing the interval between evaluation and listing
• New site guide & FAQ
• New for travelers on behalf of UNOS: online travel reimbursement
• The Mayo Clinic on best practices and achieving common goals through collaborative improvement
• Unexpected HCV donor-derived transmissions on the rise
• Lowering average time from referral to listing at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center
• Preview available for OPOs: new liver distribution match lists
• Recent DonorNet improvements resulting from innovation events
• UNOS collaborates with surgeons at ASTS innovation event
• In Memoriam: Oscar Salvatierra, M.D.
• DonorNet Mobile for OPOs release adds deceased donor information
• National Liver Review Board to be implemented April 30
• Liver distribution policy targeted for April 30 implementation
• Multi-organ transplant (MOT) nearly doubles in six years: What are the ethical implications?
• National Liver Review Board implementation webinar April 15
• National Liver Review Board, liver distribution to be implemented April 30, 2019
• How will the new liver system help pediatric patients?
• New functional inactivity guidelines for pancreas programs
• James Pittman on the art of transplant administration
• Game changers: At the forefront of organ perfusion technology
• Increasing lung utilization through organ perfusion
• Pediatric transplant recipient grows up to give back
• Donor Alliance of Colorado receives Presidential award for Performance Excellence
• KPD Histocompatibility Testing Requirements Checklist
• KPD exchange overview updates
• “Turbo-charging” organ placement
• Clarification of CPRA calculation value and display
• An innovative approach to transitioning care
• OPO success strategies
• OPOs set records for organ donation in 2018
• Liver distribution policy, NLRB implementation deferred until May 14
• Liver policy goes into effect May 14
• Jacqueline O’Keefe of UNOS Member Quality: partnering to improve best practices
• Changes to liver policy and exception score process are in place
• New liver allocation policy still in effect
• Senior UNOS Researchers leading interactive data session at TMF
• Katherine "Katie" Barton
• Ethan Troy Williams
• Paul Charles Harris
• Luke Delaney Glen Cockey
• Charles Michael Reese
• Maria Diaz
• Liver allocation policy to revert to DSA-based system May 23
• Submit your staffing survey data
• Pre-implementation notice: OPTN liver allocation policy to revert to DSA and regions May 23, 2019
• System notice: OPTN liver allocation policy reverted to DSA and regions
• Liver allocation policy reverted to DSA and regions
• NLRB update: MMaT calculation now based on DSA of transplant hospital
• How the UNOS OPO Benchmark Report helps maximize liver offers
• Korinne Ashley Shroyer
• Susie Diaz
• Annual kidney allocation calculator updates
• Next steps for the first national donor image sharing hub
• UNOS researchers present studies at American Transplant Congress
• Douglas Karl Constantine
• Webinars discuss revisions to kidney and pancreas allocation policies
• Creating a fair and equitable system by increasing access to organs
• OPTN Board approves updated heart, VCA allocation
• Heart recipient honored with 2019 NDM Award for Excellence
• UNet feature added - password change notification
• Lifeline of Ohio LGBTQ+ outreach: Increasing donor registrations
• Added a donor highlights change log to DonorNet on June 19
• Alan Bruce Frick
• National Kidney and Pancreas webinars discuss SRTR modeling results
• UNOS implemented a new secure email system on May 30, 2019
• Patient Status Confirmation link available in UNet on July 1
• LifeLink of Georgia increases African-American organ donation
• Transplant Administrators Can Now Access 2018 Staffing Survey Results
• LifeLink of Georgia nearly triples African-American donors
• Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital released from probation
• Melanie Heusted-Cybulski
• Ricky Mullane
• Better offer screening
• Kidney and pancreas committees refine distribution policy options
• Reducing unwanted organ offers
• How OPOs improve performance and increase transplants nationwide
• Removing BMI and C-peptide from kidney/pancreas waiting time criteria
• Assign training to your staff with UNOS Connect's latest feature
• Now Available: Spring 2019 PSRs/OSRs
• Roberto Cuebas
• Linda M. Stanley
• Updated OPO Benchmark report released today -- contains new comparison group
• View distance from donor hospital to transplant hospital on heart and lung matches
• Recommended effective practices related to following the match run sequence
• Call for nominations for 2020 board and committees
• Webinars provide information about public comment proposals
• New OPTN organ transplant labels available now
• Camryn Alexis Barrows
• Changes to UNOS Messaging service for organ offer notifications
• Elizabeth Jane Clagett
• Kayshla Michelle Torres
• UNet enhancements developed during NATCO's UNOS Innovation Event now in place
• 10 things UNOS is doing to increase organ utilization
• We measure just about everything we do
• SRTR announces leadership change
• Dual and en bloc kidney changes in place
• Labs gain access to Data Services beginning Sept. 11
• Median MELD and PELD scores at transplant updated
• New TIEDI® APIs now available
• Extra Vessels changes are in effect
• Need feedback from transplant professionals on social media and living donors
• Educational webinar addressed NLRB process
• Transplant patient webinar addresses proposed changes to kidney and pancreas distribution
• UNet University e-learning modules now available
• Relisting a K-P candidate as a KI Candidate
• UNet Site Security Administrator Audit
• Median MELD and PELD at transplant scores updated
• DonorNet Mobile release adds vital signs and HLA info to donor record
• Now accepting nominations for Heckenkemper Transplant Leadership Award
• Offer filters pilot closed October 2
• Important information for TMF exhibitors and sponsors
• Public comment sought on split liver variance
• MaryGrace Pickett
• Extra Vessels changes
• Why reporters should visit their local organ procurement organization
• Committees to review kidney and pancreas proposals
• Advanced TransNet training for OPOs coming in 2020
• KPD system priority points updated
• Kidney and pancreas allocation proposals modified
• Improving our technology infrastructure
• RUM report tool expanded to include pancreas data
• Center code required for OPTN label orders
• OPTN members network and learn from UNOS employees at Primer event
• Uniting policy and information technology
• Modifications made to kidney and pancreas allocation proposals
• Ryutaro Hirose, M.D., to join SRTR as surgical director
• Updates to security administration site will launch January 16
• Curtis Dylan Lowe
• Emily Marie Gonzales
• A friend’s gift: Becoming a living liver donor
• New study reveals variations in risk among living kidney donors
• Transforming policy into algorithms
• CORE's performance excellence honored with Baldrige Award
• TIEDI® APIs now available for living donor registration and living donor follow-up
• Public comment sought; Liver access for urgent candidates in Hawaii and Puerto Rico
• A father's voice
• OPTN board adopts new policy to improve kidney, pancreas distribution
• Pre-implementation notice: Removing DSA from thoracic allocation system
• Changes coming to UNOS Service Portal emails beginning Dec. 18, 2019
• National Donor Memorial virtual tour offers online visitors a 3D experience
• Amy Louise Edwards
• "I love it when people share great ideas": TMF Best of the Best winner Julie Yeh
• Efficient organ allocation: A message from Gift of Life Michigan's Walter Herczyk
• Efficient organ allocation
• Kidney Accelerated Placement Project launched in 2019
• New data tool for transplant programs: Living liver donor follow-up report available on UNet℠
• Improving our technology infrastructure
• Patient status confirmation link available in UNet℠ on Jan. 17, 2020
• The OPTN Patient Information Letter has been updated
• Tammy Siler
• Hypothermic machine perfusion: An alternative for organ preservation
• Transplant hospital definition bylaws effective Jan. 13
• UNOS researchers discover a new way to predict kidney utilization rates
• DSA removed from thoracic allocation system Jan. 9, 2020
• Organ donation again sets record in 2019
• Organ donation again sets record in 2019
• What's behind the rise in living organ donation?
• Living donation: One person can make a big difference
• The new security administration application has been implemented
• Educating the next generation: kidney transplant surgeon Stuart Geffner, M.D.
• Kidney waiting list management tool on UNet℠: Now updated with user-friendly enhancements
• Pushing boundaries to improve organ utilization efficiency
• Updated liver and intestinal organ allocation policy to be implemented Feb. 4, 2020
• Pre-implementation notice: Liver and intestinal organ distribution based on acuity circles to be implemented Feb. 4, 2020
• Making DonorNet® more efficient
• Public comment open from Jan. 22 through March 24 2020
• Chair of Transplant Administrators Committee previews opening session of TMF
• Inside the Organ Center
• Making liver distribution more fair and equitable
• Michele Fleeger
• Transforming policy into algorithms
• Improving DonorNet Mobile℠: A Q&A with Lloyd Board
• Annual UNOS staffing survey now open
• Annual UNOS RFI: 2020 documents now available on the UNet℠ transplant administrators website
• Requests for Potential Transplant Recipient corrections on match runs
• Introducing UNOS’ new mission and vision statements
• Upcoming changes to histocompatibility and CPRA display in UNet
• Nominees chosen for 2020 Board of Directors election
• The most active living donor liver transplant programs
• UNOS hosts briefing for congressional staff members
• New national liver and intestinal organ transplant system in effect Feb. 4, 2020
• System notice: Liver and intestinal organ distribution based on acuity circles implemented Feb. 4
• Field notification addresses perfusion circuit sample port
• Is natural language processing useful in predicting organ acceptance?
• UNOS welcomes new board members
• “Saving children is about preserving our future.”
• Access for urgent liver candidates in Hawaii and Puerto Rico to be implemented Feb. 18
• Webinar to address NLRB effective practices
• An Expedia for organ transplantation: Predicting travel time
• 2019: Record-setting year for living donation
• Using data to save lives: Neelam Singh on UNOS business intelligence
• UNet℠ API now available for retrieval of Waitlist℠ registration information
• Using data to save lives
• System notice: Access for urgent liver candidates in Hawaii and Puerto Rico implemented Feb. 18
• Introducing UNet℠ Image Sharing: A Q&A with Randall Fenderson
• Key personnel to be displayed in OPTN Member Directory
• Policy and programming changes associated with the "clarifications on reporting maintenance dialysis" proposal to be implemented on April 1
• In Memoriam: Jeremiah Turcotte, M.D.
• Director of kidney transplant at HCA Henrico Doctors’ Hospital Lisa Matthias
• Why I volunteer: Lisa Matthias, Henrico Doctors’ Hospital
• Changes to histocompatibility typing and CPRA display
• Improving DonorNet Mobile℠
• System notice: Clarification of pre-existing liver disease implemented March 1
• Advancing American kidney health through collaboration
• Review of SRTR program-specific reports begins April 1, 2020
• UNOS launches new pediatric liver collaborative; OPTN launches new improvement website
• Call for transplant professionals to participate in survey on predictive analytics
• UNet℠ Image Sharing: A consistent, secure and seamless platform
• Changes coming to the Organ Offer Report for transplant centers
• Melodie McGee
• UNOS ambassador Monette Rockymore
• Why I volunteer: UNOS ambassador Monette Rockymore
• Call for nominations for OPTN Heart Committee and Lung Committee
• UNet℠ API available for retrieval and submission of Waitlist℠ unacceptable antigen data
• Actions address transplant candidate data reporting, candidate inactivation related to COVID-19
• COVID-19 updates: March 18, 2020
• CMS issues COVID-19 guidance to health care providers
• COVID-19 updates: March 20, 2020
• COVID-19’s impact on organ donation and transplantation discussed at multi-society webinar
• COVID-19 updates: March 24, 2020
• Special pathogens update
• Then and now: Living donor liver transplantation
• OPTN policy link added to DonorNet®
• COVID-19 refusal codes for transplant hospitals implemented March 25
• COVID-19 inactivation process for multiple kidney transplant candidates
• COVID-19 updates: March 27, 2020
• COVID-19 updates: March 28, 2020
• Using behavioral research to test and improve transplant decision making
• Changes to the Organ Offer Report for transplant programs
• COVID-19-related cause of death option now available for transplant recipients and candidates
• COVID-19 updates: April 1, 2020
• SRTR data review period for program-specific reports now open, deadline extended until May 31
• COVID-19 updates: April 4, 2020 new policy changes
• Updates to OPO notification limits for electronic notification for heart, lung, and heart-lung matches
• COVID-19 updates: April 10, 2020
• Kidney waiting time modification form for non-dialysis candidates now available
• TIEDI ® System Updates: Temporary changes related to submitting LDF and TRF forms
• COVID-19 updates: April 14, 2020
• Join collaborative COVID-19 webinar hosted by New York organ donation and transplant professionals
• COVID-19 updates: April 18, 2020
• Introducing UNet℠ Image Sharing
• New donor data collection for COVID-19 testing and results added to DonorNet
• COVID-19 updates: April 22, 2020
• COVID-19 reactivation process for multiple kidney transplant candidates
• Annual UNOS staffing survey deadline extended through Dec. 31, 2020
• COVID-19 updates: April 24, 2020
• Lukas Willoughby-Grube
• Stronger together: A collaborative study between U.S. and U.K. researchers
• COVID-19 Weekly RUM Report now available
• COVID-19 updates: April 28, 2020
• Pre-implementation system notice: Reactivation of liver candidates to MELD or PELD score without entering new lab values
• Pre-implementation notice: Extension of HOPE Act participation to all organ types
• COVID Collaborative webinar: Telemedicine, transplant and COVID-19
• Getting to organ offer acceptance faster: A Q&A with Rob McTier
• Joseph Andrew Armstead
• Courtney Ray Sterling
• System notice: Reactivation of liver candidates to MELD or PELD score without entering new lab values
• Donation and transplant professionals: Share your COVID-19 practices in real time
• Implementation of changes to DonorNet® XML schema for COVID-19 testing and results
• Bio form updated for volunteering for board or committee service
• COVID-19 updates: May 15, 2020
• AST releases recommendations and guidance for organ donor testing
• New donor data collection test type for COVID-19 testing and results added to DonorNet®
• COVID Collaborative kicks off with telemedicine webinar
• Offer Filters Explorer tool available to kidney transplant programs starting May 20
• Pre-implementation system notice: VCA distribution to be based on fixed distance circle of 500 nautical miles
• User experience updates to the DonorNet® visual design
• COVID-19 updates: May 20, 2020
• Collaborating during COVID-19
• Robert James Gusman
• Implementation notice: Extension of HOPE Act participation to all organ types
• UPDATE: Randomized trial of mild hypothermia and machine perfusion in deceased organ donors
• Annual kidney allocation calculator updates
• New UNOS Connect resources for donation and transplant professionals
• In Memoriam: Margo L. Akerman
• Alexander Iain Newlove
• Sarah Elizabeth Andersen
• UNOS researchers to present studies at American Transplant Congress
• Transplants bounce back to near pre-COVID-19 levels
• Changes coming to the kidney paired donation data dashboard
• Clarke Danielle Quarles Reese
• Pre-implementation system notice: Modification of the lung transplant recipient follow-up form (TRF)
• UNOS ambassador and heart transplant recipient Amber Eck
• Why I volunteer: Amber Eck, UNOS ambassador
• Madeleine Grobmeier
• COVID Collaborative webinar: COVID-19: Past, present and future OPO operations
• COVID-19 updates: June 8, 2020
• Collaboration in the transplant community during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Changes to the kidney paired donation data dashboard now available
• Additional provisions adopted to upcoming kidney, pancreas distribution system
• Taylor Storch
• UNOS announces 2020 national donor memorial award winner
• Achieving racial equity in transplantation
• COVID-19 pandemic ignites collaboration in the transplant community
• UNOS ambassador and kidney transplant recipient Oliver Hale
• Why I volunteer: Oliver Hale, UNOS ambassador
• Better screening accelerates organ offers
• COVID-19 updates: June 18, 2020
• Better screening accelerates organ offers
• System notice: VCA distribution to be based on fixed distance circle of 500 nautical miles
• The visual report of organ offers updated due to user feedback
• Living donor follow-up tools updated to align with the emergency changes to OPTN policy
• Liver recipient Colleen Reed, Ph.D.
• Why I volunteer: Colleen Reed, Ph.D., liver recipient
• Bridging the gap: Kidney biopsy results and transplant survival outcomes
• COVID-19: What have we learned to prepare for the next wave?
• Emergency actions help members protect patient safety and access to transplant during COVID-19
• COVID-19 policy keeps transplant patients safe, protects medical urgency status
• Study of OPTN regional structure and process begins
• Implementation system notice: Modification of the lung recipient TRF
• Thoracic Committee Dissolved July 1; Heart and Lung Committees begin new work
• Making organ recovery transportation safer for transplant teams
• COVID-19 updates: July 2, 2020
• Carolinas Medical Center histocompatibility laboratory director Pete Lalli
• Why I volunteer: Pete Lalli, Ph.D., Carolinas Medical Center
• Bridging the gap
• Public Health Service guidance updated regarding donor screening for bloodborne disease transmission
• Information for kidney programs about the UNOS Labs℠ Organ Tracking Pilot
• Notice of implementation of new OPTN Membership Application forms
• Update on the OPTN COVID Collaborative
• Join the July 24 webinar: "COVID-19: Past, present and future transplant center operations"
• John Pinkston — "Johnny"
• Gauging social media effectiveness in finding living donors
• Analyzing adult heart allocation policy
• COVID-19 updates: July 17, 2020
• Temporary interruption of UNet services on Thursday, July 23 starting at 7 a.m.
• Gene Zellmer
• Jason “Jay” Czoschke
• Jason E. Mattson
• Former board president Sue Dunn steps down as Donor Alliance CEO
• Increasing utilization of moderate-to-high KDPI kidneys
• COVID-19 updates: July 23, 2020
• Investigating familial kidney disease to assess donor risk of ESRD
• Update to Waitlist kidney minimum acceptance criteria page displays date of most recent edit
• Kirby Foundation gives $75,000 to promote organ donation
• Using machine learning to improve kidney allocation rates
• Jaxson Jayce Turrentine
• COVID-19 webinars now available on UNOS Connect
• COVID-19 updates: July 31, 2020
• Public comment open from Aug. 4 through Oct.1
• 36 years later: An organ donor's parents' story
• Policy implementation notice: National Liver Review Board enhancements effective August 4
• COVID-19 updates: August 5, 2020
• TransNet now available on iPhone devices
• Kidney Accelerated Placement project ended July 15, one-year pilot comes to a close
• Center effects greatly affect kidney access disparity
• In spite of the pandemic, we’re performing more deceased-donor organ transplants than in years past
• Aug. 20 UNOS COVID-19 update: Committee meetings virtual through October
• UNOS announces new research and development projects
• NLRB HCC extension automatic approval to take effect Sept. 10
• Register now to attend Innovations at UNOS webinar
• High-flying hopes: Are drones the future of organ transportation?
• New Waitlist feature provides insight into why certain candidates have been screened from matches
• Phase II of the offer filters project launches on Aug. 27
• OPO testing of deceased donors for COVID-19 ensures patient safety
• COVID-19 updates: Aug. 28, 2020
• Special public comment period begins Aug. 31 for proposed COVID-related lung diagnoses
• In Memoriam: G. Melville Williams, M.D.
• New initiatives support transplant hospitals, OPOs and patients
• VCA programs to reapply to OPTN ahead of upcoming changes to bylaws and policy
• Changes to unacceptable antigens in KPD and Waitlist
• Scientists find evidence of recipient factor in predicting donor ESRD
• COVID-19 update: Sept. 3, 2020
• Patient status confirmation link available in UNet℠ beginning Sept. 9
• Updated Median MELD at Transplant scores take effect Sept. 23
• Tools for managing data submissions now available
• Sharing images to save more lives
• Changes to kidney and pancreas allocation to be implemented later this year
• Nicole Medwick from CORE discusses first national donor image sharing hub
• COVID-19 update: Sept. 17, 2020
• AJT article reports on 10 years of potential donor-derived transmission events
• Tableau server upgrades and potential downtime on Sept. 23
• New online membership application tool offers benefits, launches to transplant programs Oct. 15
• In Memoriam: John S. Najarian, M.D.
• Review of SRTR fall PSR reports begins Oct. 1
• VCA transplant programs to begin reapplication period Oct. 8 ahead of new Bylaws
• 2019 staffing survey results now available, survey to remain open through December
• Now accepting nominations for 2021 Heckenkemper Transplant Leadership Award
• UNOS receives $106,000 grant from Fresenius foundation
• COVID-19 update: Sept. 24, 2020
• Setting travel safety standards for organ recovery teams
• Improvement to the Candidate Match Screen Report
• UNOS research analyst Julia Foutz on reducing the organ shortage and saving more lives
• SRTR contract renewed
• Donor hospital records updated for time zone, daylight savings time
• COVID-19 update: Oct. 9, 2020
• Annual updates to the Transplant Center Benchmark Reports on Data Portal coming soon
• Annual updates to the Recovery and Usage Maps on Data Portal coming soon
• Preview available for OPOs: New kidney and pancreas distribution match lists
• COVID-19 organ failure in candidate listings in UNet coming soon
• Annual updates to the Transplant Center Benchmark Reports in UNet data services portal now available
• Annual updates to the Recovery and Usage Maps in UNet data services portal now available
• “Rule change could endanger our organ transplant system”
• “Organ donation is under threat”
• Nomination deadline approaching for Heckenkemper Award for Excellence
• UNOS launches new online membership application tool to transplant programs
• “Honor organ donors by saving procurement organizations”
• Provide your feedback on educational offerings in UNOS Connect
• Dec. 15 implementation date set for changes to kidney, pancreas allocation
• Using registries to improve outcomes and transplant management
• COVID-19 update: Oct. 23, 2020
• COVID-19 organ failure diagnosis codes for heart and lung candidate listings in UNet now available
• Addition of “Other allele” for DPB1 HLA in DonorNet, TIEDI, and KPD
• Innovating to strengthen the organ transplant system
• “Transplant system that saved my life is under threat”
• Modifications made to policy requirements for blood type determination and reporting
• Mark Joyce
• COVID-19 update: Nov. 6, 2020
• Transplant patient webinar addresses upcoming changes to kidney and pancreas distribution
• Enhancements to the UNet data services portal are now live
• Pre-implementation notice: Phase I of new kidney medical urgency requirements to implement Dec. 1
• Pre-implementation notice: Removal of DSA and region from kidney and pancreas allocation to go into effect Dec. 15
• UNOS associate data scientist Carlos Martinez uses machine learning to interpret kidney allocation rates
• Coming to DonorNet® Dec. 15: Changes to notification limits for intestine, pancreas, kidney-pancreas and kidney matches
• How the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spark collaboration in the transplant community
• COVID-19 update: Nov. 19, 2020
• Five years of HOPE Act; observations from Sander Florman, M.D.
• Results from the OPTN regional review questionnaire now available
• Attention UNet users: Important system updates ahead of upcoming implementations
• John Thoden Jr.
• Pediatric transplant hospital bylaws to be in effect Dec. 8
• Kidney and pancreas transplant patient webinar recording now available
• Implementation notice: Phase I of new kidney medical urgency requirements
• Donor mother honors her son
• Implementation notice: Waitlist℠ programming updates to local acceptance criteria for heart, lung, heart-lung, liver and intestine
• COVID-19 update: Dec. 3, 2020
• Leo Asad Woodruff
• Nominees chosen for 2021 Board of Directors election
• Liver lab API now available for retrieval and submission of liver lab data in Waitlist
• COVID-19 update: Dec. 11, 2020
• 2020: A year of continuous UNet℠ enhancements
• Kidney and pancreas allocation changes postponed
• Waitlist℠ updates for local acceptance criteria for kidney and pancreas postponed
• DonorNet® updates for notification limits for kidney, kidney-pancreas/pancreas and intestine matches are being postponed
• Implementation notice: Pediatric transplant hospital bylaws now in effect
• OPTN Board approves pediatric transplant program components, strategic planning, operational actions
• HOPE Act impact continues at five-year milestone
• Life without limits: Happy Holidays from the UNOS Organ Center
• Medicare coverage of immunosuppression for kidney recipients to be extended
• In Memoriam: Robert Veatch, Ph.D.
• LifeChoice Donor Services and New England Organ Bank to merge Jan. 1
• Kyle Sagedahl
• Stephen Hasbrouck
• Jeffrey Lamar Childers
• Daniel Hurst
• Upcoming requirements for COVID-19 testing data collection in DonorNet®
• COVID-19 update: Jan. 7, 2021
• Voting opens Jan. 13, 2021, for Board election/Annual meeting of members
• Annual record trend continues for deceased organ donation, deceased donor transplants
• UNOS launches new online membership forms to all labs and OPOs
• New speaker series explores latest advances in transplant
• Improving DonorNet Mobile together
• New OPTN policies to align with updated U.S. Public Health Service Guideline
• UNOS Ambassador and 2020 heart recipient expresses gratitude following transplant
• COVID-19 update: Jan. 21, 2021
• Public comment open from Jan. 21 through Mar. 23 2021
• New standards ensure pediatric candidates receive the best care possible
• TMF 2021 keynote speaker Jason Schechterle details his triumph over tragedy and what inspires him to fight against unimaginable adversity
• Register now to attend Innovations at UNOS webinar
• New requirements for COVID-19 testing data collection in DonorNet®
• UNOS RFI documents for 2021 are available on the UNet Transplant Administrators website
• UNet Image Sharing DICOM image study export capability now available
• Modifying data submissions: A Q&A with Kristine Browning and Heather Hickland
• New board members elected in 2021
• UNOS to study data collection related to social determinants of health
• New heart adult Status 2 and pediatric exception requests guidance now available
• Updated National Liver Review Board guidance in effect
• UNOS 2020 staffing survey now available for transplant administrators
• Surgical assistant Jacob Mansy on collaborating to optimize the DonorNet website
• Implementation of kidney and pancreas policies
• Data submission policy tools and educational offering updated to include TRF and LDF forms as of Feb. 15
• Modifications to adult heart and heart-lung justification forms will be implemented March 4
• TMF 2021 presenter Robert Howey explains the complexities and essential components for transplant programs dealing with Medicare reimbursement
• Feb. 24 webinar addresses new policies aligning with PHS guideline
• Summary of evidence report details experience with COVID-19
• Policies to align with PHS guideline: Webinar and additional resources
• “I pledged to my donor family I would carry his heart with honor”: UNOS Ambassador Roxanne Watson on fulfilling a promise.
• Expedited Liver Placement: Phase 1 implementation underway
• Trailblazing physician broke barriers to become nation’s first Black female transplant surgeon
• About 2021 Transplant Management Forum gold level sponsors
• COVID-19 update: Feb. 25, 2021
• Expedited Liver Placement policy implementation begins March 25, 2021
• Preview available for OPOs: Expedited Liver Placement tools
• Policies implemented to align with PHS guideline
• March 15 policy implementation: Removal of DSA from kidney and pancreas allocation
• TMF 2021 presenter Ian Jamieson speaks on the importance of transplant center strategic planning
• COVID-19 “amnesty” status will end for all follow-up forms due on or after April 1; Retrospective forms due July 1
• Coming to DonorNet® March 15: Changes to notification limits for intestine, pancreas/kidney-pancreas and kidney matches
• Organ type added to transplant program STAR files, available April 5
• Upcoming DonorNet® enhancement—Monitor packaged organs
• Changes to adult heart and heart-lung justification forms effective March 4
• Transplant program TIEDI® data submission overview visualization updated
• AST Innovation Award presented to DTAC
• Resource lists lower respiratory tract testing available
• Upcoming DonorNet Mobile national rollout for transplant hospitals
• For all transplant programs: Information about the UNOS Organ Tracking Beta Test
• AST, ASTS & UNOS encourage collaboration to drive improvement
• Updated Median MELD at Transplant scores take effect March 31
• Notice of implementation: Removal of DSA and region from kidney and pancreas allocation
• New kidney and pancreas transplant allocation policies in effect
• Changes to DonorNet® notification limits for intestine, pancreas, kidney-pancreas and kidney matches now in effect
• Changes to Waitlist℠ local acceptance criteria for kidney, pancreas, kidney-pancreas and pancreas islet offers now in effect
• Shannon N. Baribeau
• SRTR announces monitoring changes for July 2021 reports in response to COVID-19
• EY selected to analyze the existing OPTN regional structure
• TMF 2021 keynote speaker Amy Hunter on healthcare disparities in African-American communities, effect on organ donation and transplantation
• COVID-19 update: Mar. 18, 2021
• New expedited liver policy in effect
• Notice of Implementation: Expedited Liver Placement policy
• Workgroup to examine use of race-based adjustment to kidney calculation
• UNOS in the news: Editorial boards weigh in on OPO final rule, urge collaboration
• Review of SRTR spring PSR reports begins April 1
• Changes to Data Services Portal files: Updates to file descriptions
• For all transplant programs: 10 new OPOs added to UNOS Organ Tracking Beta Test
• Patient status confirmation link available in UNet℠ beginning April 5
• Effective April:1 Data amnesty status for follow-up forms ends
• Oscar Serrano, M.D., on reducing disparities in access to transplant
• In Memoriam: Vicki Crosier
• COVID-19 update: April 1, 2021
• Organ type now included in center STAR files
• Mitchell Louis Scott
• New DonorNet Mobile now available for transplant hospitals nationwide
• UNet security administration training open April 12 and UNet user audit open April 21
• White House issues National Donate Life Month proclamation
• New expedited liver placement policy prevents discards
• Updated 12-month monitoring report available for liver, intestine policy
• Transplant administrators: Submit your 2020 staffing data now and receive the new benchmark report staffing survey supplement
• Voluntary recall addresses Vecuronium Bromide
• COVID-19 update: April 15, 2021
• Lower respiratory testing requirement for all lung donors to be considered
• Organ offer messaging enhancement for Expedited Liver Placement now available
• Special public comment is now open for proposal to refine lung data fields for the Lung Allocation Score
• MPSC at work on transplant program performance monitoring project
• U.S. leads world in rates of deceased donors, key transplant categories
• Heather Ripley
• Messaging enhancement for Expedited Liver Placement now available
• Jayden Johnivan Snyder
• COVID-19 update: May 7, 2021
• Updated 12-month monitoring report available for National Liver Review Board
• Committee established to advance multi-organ policy development
• National Heart Review Board for Pediatrics launches June 15
• UNOS launches national organ tracking service for OPOs and transplant centers
• Annual kidney allocation calculator updates
• Coming June 17: HLA equivalency table update and addition of DPB1 epitopes
• COVID-19 update: May 20, 2021
• Implementation date for modified data submission requirements, including data lock, postponed until 2022
• National MPSC webinar to address proposed changes to transplant program metrics
• Weekly deceased donor total exceeds 300 for first time
• SRTR announces monitoring changes for January 2022 reporting cycle in response to COVID-19
• Lower respiratory testing of all potential lung donors for SARS-CoV-2 now required
• 2022-2023 Call for Nominations for OPTN Board of Directors and Committees
• Policies implemented to align with PHS guideline: Living Donor Specimen Storage, Informed Consent
• COVID-19 update: June 3, 2021
• Now available: Recording of June 2 national webinar addressing proposed changes to transplant program metrics
• OPOs and transplant hospitals can now track organs in transit
• Transplant administrators: 2020 staffing survey still open, results will be available in fall of 2021
• 2021 National Donor Memorial Award for Excellence winner announced
• National Heart Review Board for Pediatrics is now live
• HLA equivalency table updates and addition of DPB1 epitopes now in effect
• COVID-19 update: June 17, 2021
• UNOS named top workplace for 8th consecutive year by Richmond Times-Dispatch
• UNOS researchers present studies at 2021 American Transplant Congress
• Accelerating the match run: UNOS partners with Nutanix
• Ethics Committee white paper addresses living donor transplants in light of COVID-19 pandemic
• Monitoring report of early kidney data shows increase in transplants
• Heparin field changes in DonorNet® now live
• Metrics measuring the success of the OPTN
• CARE tool visualizes organ acceptance and refusal
• Fernando Vega
• UNOS and transplant professionals collaborate on enhancements to UNet during TMF 2021
• What's the best way to measure transplant program performance?
• COVID-19 action regarding non-dialysis kidney candidate listing to sunset Sept. 1
• OPTN Board approves VCA transplant programs, liver allocation refinements, and strategic plan
• COVID-19 update: July 1, 2021
• Infectious disease testing resource documents for deceased and living donors now available
• National Liver Review Board guidance documents updated
• COVID-19 update: July 15, 2021
• Partnering with experts in fields outside of donation and transplant
• Building a new, more flexible system for organ allocation
• UNet℠ API now available for Waitlist℠ organ acceptance data
• National webinar on Aug. 4 to address proposed changes to transplant program metrics
• Analyzing the impact of transplant policy and system modifications in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• COVID-19 update: July 29, 2021
• Why I volunteer: Kidney recipient Precious McCowan
• Public comment open from Aug. 3 through Sept. 30, 2021
• Working collaboratively to enhance system performance and improve transplant program monitoring metrics
• U.S. on pace to top 40,000 transplants in a single year for first time
• Monitoring report available for lower respiratory testing of lung donors
• Community update: Policy development based on continuous distribution
• Analysis of allocation changes for en bloc deceased donor kidneys
• COVID-19 update: Aug. 13, 2021
• UNet will begin support for Microsoft Edge browser, ending support for Internet Explorer
• AST COVID-19 guidance documents updated
• National webinar held on Aug. 9 to review the continuous distribution of lungs proposal
• Voluntary recall addresses Alprostadil
• UNOS remembers Lisa Schaffner
• COVID-19 update: Aug. 27, 2021
• Minority Affairs and Kidney Transplantation committees request patient feedback on use of race in eGFR
• UNet now supports Microsoft Edge browser
• UNet applications will add multi-factor authentication (MFA) in early 2022: what you should know
• COVID-19 update: Sept. 2, 2021
• COVID-19 update: Sept. 9, 2021
• Updated Cohort for Calculation of the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) will be implemented on September 30
• Register now to attend Innovations at UNOS webinar
• 2020 Staffing Survey results now available, survey to remain open through December
• Updated 15–month monitoring report available for liver, intestine policy
• Updated Median MELD at Transplant scores take effect September 29
• UNOS names new Organ Center and Policy and Community Relations directors
• DonorNet Donor Disposition Reason Code updates coming soon
• Patient status confirmation link available in UNet℠ beginning Oct. 4, 2021
• “Our cosmic goal”: Enhancing transplant metrics and increasing transplant
• The ethical implications of continuing living donor transplants during COVID-19
• COVID-19 update: Sept. 24, 2021
• Congressional briefing highlights transplant success, improvement
• DonorNet Donor Disposition Reason Codes updated
• Changes to the Updated Cohort for Calculation of the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) are now in effect
• Internet Explorer no longer supported as of Sept. 30, 2021
• Get started now: Download the Authy app in preparation for an important UNet enhancement coming in early 2022
• Changes to custom reports based on changes to the Updated Cohort for Calculation of the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) are now in effect
• Updated NLRB exception requirements effective Oct. 7
• COVID-19 update: Oct. 7, 2021
• Updated monitoring report of kidney data shows increase in transplants, new policies having anticipated impact
• New version of the Offer Filters Explorer tool for kidney transplant programs now available
• Changes made to liver Status 1A and 1B justification forms
• Kidney transplants increase across all populations following policy changes
• UNOS recognized for lifesaving innovations at rvatech awards gala
• COVID-19 update: Oct. 22, 2021
• COVID-19 update: Nov. 4, 2021
• Zachary James Flyte
• Michael Joseph Hopper
• UNet will prohibit access from Internet Explorer starting Dec. 2
• National organ tracking service continues growth
• Grant-funded initiatives improve organ transportation and logistics
• Daniel L. Walker
• UNOS will launch the national rollout of Offer Filters for kidney on Jan. 27
• COVID-19 update: Nov. 18, 2021
• Animated videos describe lung allocation score, kidney allocation formulas
• UNet now prohibits access from Internet Explorer
• COVID-19 update: Dec. 2, 2021
• Transplant innovations for today and tomorrow: David Klassen, M.D.
• UNet℠ API now available for submission and retrieval of Waitlist℠ lung registration information
• New Waitlist Lung Allocation Score report and enhancement export feature now available
• Get started now: Download the Authy app in preparation for an important UNet enhancement
• UNOS will launch the national rollout of Offer Filters for kidney on Jan. 27
• Kathleen Thornton
• Robert Lee Chantrenne
• New lung allocation policy approved
• OPTN Board adopts new transplant program performance metrics
• Anthony Jeffery III
• COVID-19 update: Dec. 16, 2021
• Record 40,000 transplants honors legacy of donors
• Potential supply issues affecting organ preservation solution
• Nominees chosen for 2022 Board of Directors election
• UNet password and login page updates
• Brianna Titterington
• Kamonie Love
• Jammie Dee Allen
• Kylie Grace
• Jamie Garcia-Marrow
• Education available for the national rollout of Offer Filters for kidney
• COVID-19 update: Jan. 6, 2022
• What is EPTS? A new animation for patients explains the estimated post-transplant survival score
• COVID-19 update: Jan. 11, 2022
• Candidate data reporting policy action reinstated due to COVID-19 impact
• Updated monitoring report of liver data shows increase in transplants, new policies having anticipated impact
• All-time records again set in 2021 for organ transplants, organ donation from deceased donors
• Pre-implementation notice: Clarification of multi-organ allocation policy
• For kidney programs: granting access to Offer Filters
• What is KDPI? A new animation for patients explains the kidney donor profile index
• What is LAS? A new animation for patients explains the lung allocation score
• Six-month monitoring report now available for expedited liver policy
• UNOS launching new member focused improvement initiative in 2022
• COVID-19 update: Jan. 21, 2022
• Updates to National Liver Review Board guidance and policy in effect
• Delayed Implementation: Mandatory TransNet updates for iOS and Android applications
• Candidate unacceptable antigens now available in DonorNet Mobile
• Match Run List – Offer Details Navigational Button Changes
• National rollout of Offer Filters for kidney now available
• Public comment open from Jan. 27 through March 23, 2022
• New board members elected 2022
• 9th year of record-setting liver transplants
• Mandatory TransNet updates for iOS and Android applications
• Now available: Mandatory TransNet Updates for iOS and Android applications
• COVID-19 update: Feb. 3, 2022
• Two new data elements added to transplant program Center STAR files, available March 7
• For patients: Feb. 18 webinar on continuous distribution of kidneys and pancreata
• Implementation notice: Clarification of multi-organ allocation policy, changes in DonorNet
• How Offer Filters will help more kidney patients, faster
• Time zone label updates coming to DonorNet
• Community feedback needed on development of policy for continuous distribution of kidneys and pancreata
• National webinar addresses proposed modifications to graft failure definition for VCA
• COVID-19 update: Feb. 17, 2022
• Samuel Wallman
• Patient and community feedback requested on the use of race in eGFR
• End of TransNet support for Android devices in 2023
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) will open for UNet on March 7
• 2021 UNOS staffing survey now open
• Two new transplant performance metrics to implement July 14, 2022
• COVID-19 update: March 4, 2022
• Two new data elements added to Center STAR files
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for UNet is now open and will become mandatory on April 6 for all UNet users
• TMF 2022 presenter Olivia Kates, M.D., on the theory and practice of vaccine mandates
• Kidney transplants set new record in 2021 following policy change
• Education available: Time zone label updates coming to DonorNet
• Updated 18-month monitoring report available for National Liver Review Board
• COVID-19 update: March 18, 2022
• The liver allocation policy is a success we need to share: Terry Box, M.D., liver recipient
• Patient status confirmation link available in UNet℠ beginning April 4, 2022
• Lawsuit challenging kidney allocation policy is dismissed
• Candidate data reporting due to COVID-19 impact will expire April 11
• OUT tool now allows OPOs to see movement of organs across the country
• COVID-19 update: April 1, 2022
• Updated two-year monitoring report available for dual and en bloc kidney allocation
• HRSA releases Request for Information for market research to support the next OPTN contract
• In Memoriam: Pono Shim
• COVID-19 update: April 15, 2022
• Median MELD at Transplant scores updated effective March 30
• 10 things UNOS is doing to get the right organ to the right patient at the right time
• Time zone label updates added to DonorNet
• Community results of winter 2022 kidney and pancreas prioritization exercises now available
• Billy Martin Testerman
• OPTN death verification process improvements will yield updated numbers beginning in April 2022
• COVID-19 update: April 29, 2022
• Updates to modify data submission policy coming Aug. 30
• New and changed data collection on TIEDI: annual update to OMB approved forms
• Heart simulation modeling supported by gift from Grammenos A. Adamantiades Memorial Fund
• COVID-19 update: May 12, 2022
• Annual kidney allocation calculator updates to KDPI and EPTS reference populations
• COVID-19 update: May 26, 2022
• Interactive visualizations now available as part of policy development for kidney and pancreas allocation
• Now open: 2022 UNOS member survey
• Matthew McIntyre
• COVID-19 update: June 9, 2022
• A message from Matt Cooper, M.D.: 2022 UNOS Member Survey
• UNOS researchers present studies at 2022 American Transplant Congress
• OPTN Board of Directors expected to require transplant hospitals to use race-neutral calculations in assessing patients
• Pre-implementation notice: Two new transplant performance metrics to implement July 14
• Kaidence Contreras
• Building a team, serving a community: Pride at NEDS
• June 14 webinar addresses median MELD at transplant based on donor hospital
• COVID-19 update: June 23, 2022
• New OPO System and Process Measures Dashboard now available
• One-year monitoring report available for pancreas allocation policies
• Median MELD at transplant now based around donor hospital
• Pre-implementation notice: Updates to living donor exclusion criteria
• A lasting legacy: Lisa Schaffner honored posthumously with newly renamed award
• UNOS CEO Brian Shepard to leave organization after a decade of service
• OPTN Board approves elimination of race-based calculation for transplant candidate listing
• Pre-implementation notice: Requirement for race-neutral eGFR formulas
• OPTN Board approves improvements to medical urgency scoring of liver transplant candidates
• Capital Pride: WRTC on being meaningful community advocates all year round
• 2021 Staffing Survey results now available
• New identity verification process when calling UNOS
• Implementation notice: Pre-transplant HIV, HBV and HCV testing requirement updated for candidates younger than age 12
• One-year monitoring report shows increases in kidney transplants for Black, Hispanic, Asian and pediatric patients following policy changes
• COVID-19 update: July 8, 2022
• Emergency action: New exception pathway for heart device recalls
• Aundrea Carissa Haas
• New exception pathway available for heart device recalls
• Implementation notice: Two new transplant performance metrics now in effect
• Playlists added to UNOS Connect
• Four decades of lifesaving work: the Organ Center turns 40
• Kidney monitoring data shows 16% increase in transplant
• Two new transplant performance metrics now in effect, are first phase of enhanced monitoring system
• Waitlist enhancements and new kidney features coming
• Education now available: Updates to living donor exclusion criteria
• COVID-19 update: July 21, 2022
• Two-year monitoring report summarizes National Liver Review Board activity
• Updates to living donor exclusion criteria now in effect
• Implementation notice: Requirement for race-neutral eGFR formulas in effect
• Policy change impacting KPD eligibility coming Aug. 30
• Updates to data submission policy coming Aug. 30
• Missy
• New identity verification process when calling UNOS Customer Service & Organ Center
• New and changed data collection on TIEDI coming Aug. 30
• Public comment open from Aug. 3 through Sept. 28, 2022
• Changes to HLA and unacceptable antigen options coming Aug. 30
• Monkeypox and solid organ donation
• Two-year monitoring report for liver, intestine policy shows success in key aspects
• Pre-implementation notice: Minimum kidney donor criteria established for biopsies
• UNet user audit begins Aug. 15
• UNet user audit now open
• Over 5,000 organs tracked with UNOS Organ Tracking Service
• MFA coming for TransNet mobile iOS users
• Overcoming the financial obstacles to living donation
• COVID-19 update: Aug. 19, 2022
• Paul Flanders
• Waitlist enhancements and new kidney features coming Sept. 27
• In Memoriam: Jim Gleason
• Action required: KPD eligibility impacted by new HLA options
• Changes to HLA and unacceptable antigen options in effect
• Updates to data submission policy in effect
• New and changed data collection on TIEDI in effect
• Now in effect: New identity verification process when calling UNOS Customer Service & Organ Center
• UNOS Board of Directors statement on the national examination of the organ donation and transplant system
• Implementation notice: Minimum kidney donor criteria established for biopsies
• COVID-19 update: Sept. 8, 2022
• U.S. reaches historic milestone of 1 million transplants
• Patient Status Confirmation link available in UNet℠ beginning Oct. 3, closes Oct. 24
• Travis Scott Robinson
• Two new enhancements coming to DonorNet
• MFA coming for TransNet mobile for Android
• Two new enhancements added to DonorNet
• MFA for TransNet mobile iOS users now available
• Updated MMaT scores in effect Sept. 28
• Oct. 13 webinar to address lung continuous distribution policy implementation
• Updates coming to adult heart status justification and extension forms
• Now in effect: Waitlist enhancements and new kidney features
• Patient information on disaster relief and assistance
• Timothy (TJ) Rice Jr.
• Malaikye Payne
• United Network for Organ Sharing names new Interim CEO
• Monkeypox summary of evidence report available
• New lung data collection fields coming to support lung continuous distribution
• Updated median MELD at transplant scores in effect; revisions made to MMaT and MPaT scores
• Now in effect: MFA TransNet mobile for Android
• Predictive analytics project to launch education in December 2022, is intended to increase organ utilization
• Chase Montgomery Witt
• Peggy Long
• Offer Filters Explorer tool updated
• Now in effect: Updated adult heart status justification and extension forms
• Pre-implementation notice: CPRA calculation change
• Skyler Blandford
• Three-year monitoring report available for changes to adult heart allocation
• Now in effect: New lung data collection fields to support lung continuous distribution
• Adrian Joseph Jimenez
• UNOS seeks new CEO to be voice for diverse needs of organ donation and transplant community
• TransNet Android update available
• Giving and the Gift of Life: Lindsey C. Jennings, Manager, Philanthropy
• FAQ for patients: CPRA calculation change
• 7 years of HOPE
• Zoey T. Paymon
• Monkeypox educational document available for transplant candidates
• UNOS CEO calls for expanded improvements in the organ donation and transplant field
• New Medicare benefit available for kidney recipients
• UNOS seeks better air transportation for lifesaving organs
• COVID-19 update: Dec. 9, 2022
• Honoring my organ donors
• 7,000 organs tracked with UNOS Organ Tracking Service
• Exception pathway for heart device recalls approved by OPTN Board of Directors
• Simulated modeling results now available for continuous distribution of kidney and pancreas
• Nominees chosen for 2023 Board of Directors election
• Update: CPRA calculation
• Coming soon: Predictive analytics for adult kidney offers
• Two-year monitoring report available for the elimination of the use of DSAs in heart allocation
• Lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) calculator coming February 2023
• Three-month monitoring report for heart policy following a device recall now available
• VCA coming to UNet Spring 2023
• Transplant patient webinar addresses upcoming changes to lung distribution
• Infinite Legacy established after OPO merger
• UNOS leadership requests USDS engagement concerning leaked report and impact on patients
• Waiting time adjustment approved for kidney transplant candidates affected by race-based calculation
• Change addressing disparity for black kidney patients takes effect
• Implementation notice: Waiting time modifications for candidates affected by race-inclusive eGFR calculations
• Updated National Liver Review Board guidance in effect Jan. 5, 2023
• Pre-implementation notice: KPD policy updates
• UNOS advances plan to restructure transplant network governance to best serve patients
• 2022 organ transplants again set annual records
• U.S. set lifesaving organ donation and transplant records in 2022
• UNOS launches first national liver paired donation pilot program
• National collaborative focusing on organ offer acceptance to launch at the end of January 2023
• Available now: Predictive analytics for adult kidney offers
• Voting opens Jan. 18 for Board election/Annual meeting of members
• Predictive analytics tool now available to all kidney programs
• Public comment now open through March 15
• Jason Sinnavong
• UNet user audit begins January 31st
• Match Summary view now available in DonorNet desktop
• Implementation notice: CPRA calculation change
• Over 30 kidney donors and advocates to celebrate World Kidney Day from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro
• Gideon James Porter
• Submit exception requests for the lung CAS transition starting Feb. 9
• UNet user audit now open
• Implementation notice: KPD policy updates
• More than 15,000 liver transplants performed in first two years of acuity circles policy
• Lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) calculator available on OPTN website
• New board members elected 2023
• Additional transplant patient webinar addresses upcoming changes to lung distribution
• Community feedback needed on continuous distribution of liver and intestinal organs
• When minutes matter: The issues at stake in organ transportation
• One-year monitoring report for the Pediatric National Heart Review Board now available
• Nation’s transplant system acts to maximize organ use
• New animation for patients explains the lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS)
• Jordan Michael Cummins
• TMF 2023 presenter Jesse Schold, Ph.D., on reducing health care disparities in the organ transplant system
• OPO partners with Black history museum to increase organ donor registrations
• National webinar for kidney transplant professionals provides education on OPTN policy action on eGFR waiting time modifications
• Voluntary recall of Becton, Dickinson CD5 Series of Genesis sterilization containers
• White paper addresses ethical issues in information to support transplant program selection
• Kade Dylan Contreras
• New lung allocation policy in effect
• Patient Status Confirmation link available in UNet℠ beginning April 3, closes April 24
• New policy to allocate donor lungs takes effect
• UNOS statement on kidney continuous distribution policy in development
• Pediatric Status 1A and 1B heart and heart-lung candidates may have expanded access to intended incompatible blood type offers
• UNOS welcomes competitive bidding process for next OPTN contract
• New milestone reached in kidney donation and transplant
• Nominations open for the Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award
• OPTN data collection changes coming Sept. 14
• Dissecting the grief cycle: TMF 2023 presenter Nona Dawson-Land on coping with trauma in the workplace
• VCA coming to UNet Sept 14, 2023
• 2022 UNOS staffing survey now open
• Daniel Kristopher Glover
• Additional data on long-term outcomes incorporated into OPTN living donor data
• Updated median MELD at transplant scores in effect March 30; MPaT score lowered to 33
• Shawna Robinson
• Gary Mensinger
• Site security administrator search feature now live
• Community update: Policy development based on continuous distribution
• Coming soon: New OPTN transport label store
• UNOS appoints new CEO
• Maureen McBride named CEO of UNOS
• New store for OPTN transport labels
• TMF 2023 presenter Robert Montgomery, M.D., D.Phil., on increasing organ supply with xenotransplantation
• UNOS statement on the 2023 OPO Public Performance Report  by CMS
• Updated National Liver Review Board HCC guidance in effect April 28, 2023
• Reminder: Patient status options for TRF forms
• Important information about attachments in DonorNet
• UNOS supports the Living Donor Protection Act 
• TMF 2023 Heckenkemper Award winner: Marian O'Rourke, RN, CCTC honored
• Coming Soon: New image study viewer in DonorNet
• Predicting the future to help patients today
• Annual kidney allocation calculator updates
• New image study viewer available in DonorNet
• In Memoriam: Julie Ice
• 5 things to know: Volunteering for the board or a committee
• UNet user audit begins June 12
• 2024-2025 Call for Nominations for OPTN Board of Directors and Committees
• Webinars to address improvements to MELD, PELD, Status 1A/1B
• UNet user audit now open
• Safety net policies for kidney-after-heart and kidney-after-lung allocation in effect June 29
• New data fields available June 29 to prepare for simultaneous heart-kidney and lung-kidney allocation
• Augmented reality app aims to produce better images of donor organs
• UNOS names 2023 Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award recipient
• Pre-implementation notice: New transplant performance metric to go into effect July 27
• Improvements to MELD, PELD, Status 1A and Status 1B to take effect July 13
• New UNOS board officers begin service July 1
• Changes to security personnel requirements and reporting
• TransNet no longer supported on Android devices
• Six-month monitoring report for heart policy following a device recall now available
• Two-year monitoring report continues to show improvements in equity in access to kidney transplants for several key populations
• An important message from the MPSC on reducing risk and ensuring patient safety
• Four-year monitoring report for adult heart allocation now available
• Lonnie P. Bianchi
• Dan Glowatski
• Briana Brooks
• Kristi Hadfield
• Improvements to MELD and PELD now in effect
• Updated liver allocation policy regarding HCC criteria in effect
• Webinar to address kidney-after-thoracic safety net, combined kidney-thoracic allocation
• New policy aims to speed kidney acceptance rates, increase transplants
• New candidate inactivation code available for multi-organ transplant candidates
• UNOS embraces reform of the U.S. donation and transplant system
• UNOS applauds house action to improve air transport of donor organs
• U.S. House of Representatives calls on FAA to improve air transport of donor organs
• Public Comment open from July 27 through Sept. 19, 2023
• Updated National Liver Review Board guidance in effect for multivisceral candidates
• Match result data archiving now in effect
• In Memoriam – Isabel Stenzel Byrnes
• New kidney biopsy fields coming to DonorNet and TIEDI
• Now in effect: Changes to security personnel requirements and reporting
• Coming soon: Reporting primary graft dysfunction in heart
• UNOS plan reimagines governance of U.S. transplant system to best serve patients 
• UNOS plan reimagines governance of U.S. transplant system to best serve patients
• Pre-implementation notice: VCA coming to UNet Sept 14, 2023
• UNOS researchers present studies at 2023 American Transplant Congress
• VCA into UNet: education available
• Patient info on disaster relief and assistance
• Coming soon: Simultaneous heart-kidney and lung-kidney allocation changes
• Coming soon: changes to liver-kidney nautical mile threshold
• Member actions required: data collection and VCA implementation
• Kamil Berlingeri
• Andrea Swisher
• Anthony Franceschini Jr.
• Letisha Willis
• Research in focus: examining organ offers
• Important note on upcoming VCA data collection
• New kidney biopsy fields added to DonorNet and TIEDI 
• VCA allocation is now in UNet 
• New elements added for reporting primary graft dysfunction in heart
• UNet is online: VCA and data collection projects released
• Matthew Berbon-Owle
• Patient Status Confirmation link available in UNet℠ beginning Oct. 2, closes Oct. 23
• New pre-transplant performance metric now in effect, offer acceptance rate ratio
• UNOS commissions independent assessment of IT systems
• Updates to medical urgency scoring of liver transplant candidates in effect
• Why I volunteer: Valinda Jones, M.S.N., RN, kidney recipient
• President signs new law increasing competition for OPTN contract
• Impella 5.5 devices can now be reported in Waitlist and TIEDI
• Pre-implementation notice: Lung policy modification for blood type
• Updated median MELD at transplant scores in effect Sept. 27
• Implementation notice: Lung policy modification for blood type
• FAQ: New multi-organ polices in effect
• Now in effect: Changes to liver-kidney nautical mile threshold
• Now in effect: Simultaneous heart-kidney and lung-kidney allocation changes
• Patient information letter updated, now available in additional languages
• Celebrating the Greatest Gift this holiday season
• Two-year monitoring report available for pancreas allocation policies
• Early lung monitoring report shows increase in transplants following implementation of lung continuous distribution
• Second round of simulated modeling results for continuous distribution of kidney and pancreas now available
• Animated videos describe MELD, PELD formulas
• National webinar on Nov.15 for lung transplant professionals on upcoming data collection changes and other insights in lung allocation
• Randi Natasha Shaw
• Jodi
• Ian Sanchez
• Joseph P Sarvino Sr.
• Three new VCA programs to replace GU program
• Pre-implementation notice: Data collection changes for lung and heart-lung candidates coming
• Honoring the gift of life: Ceremony marks the National Donor Memorial 20th anniversary
• Lung transplant rates continue to increase six months post implementation of new lung policy
• Black kidney candidates are receiving waiting time modifications, helping them get the organs they need
• Three new VCA programs replace GU program
• UNOS statement following December UNOS Board vote
• Pre-implementation notice: Required reporting of patient safety events coming
• New enhancements added to DonorNet and Waitlist resulting from NATCO collaboration
• Site surveys to be conducted virtually beginning January 2024
• FAQs: Submitting supplemental oxygen values for lung candidates
• Implementation notice: Data collection changes for lung and heart-lung candidates in effect
• Kyle Richard Stevens
• Living donor: Antony Kovalov
• From a grateful recipient
• Sean Anthony Meeks
• UNOS statement on testing environment situation
• Deceased kidney donors recovered increase six-months post-implementation minimum donor criteria for kidney biopsies
• Special comment period for Expedited Placement Variance
• Tricia Jean Lanthier
• Kevin Abraham
• Joshua Mark Vinson
• Implementation notice: Required reporting of certain patient safety events now in effect
• Coming soon: Offer Filters for lung allocation
• OPTN Board approves improvements to reporting of potential patient safety events
• Tristen Wayne Hewitt
• UNOS hires new Vice President of External Affairs
• 2023: a year of more lives saved
• Innovations and policy updates drive equity and a record number of lifesaving organ transplants in 2023
• Coming soon: Contact management enhancements
• Two guidance documents updated
• Public Comment open from Jan. 23 through March 19, 2024
• UNOS strengthens leadership team
• OPTN Task Force sets goal of achieving 60K transplants by 2026
• New task force sets bold goal of achieving 60K transplants by 2026
• Offer Filters now available for lung allocation
• Latest in reporting positive post procurement donor results
• Pre-implementation notice: New pre-transplant performance metric
• My living donor: Pamela Diane Royster
• UNOS statement on draft OPTN request for proposals
• Now available: Predictive analytics in desktop DonorNet
• Mandatory training and UNet user audit opens Feb. 28, 2024
• A decade of record increases in liver transplant
• Extra Vessels included in TIEDI® for VCA
• Mariah Salazar
• UNOS statement regarding Medicare billing guidance for organ transplant monitoring tests
• UNOS statement on member vote for board independence
• Aimee Sachs
• UNOS expands leadership team
• Emily Hoffman
• VCA Uterus no longer needs body part selection- effective March 27, 2024
• UNOS applauds president’s FY2025 budget request
• UNOS welcomes new seven-member board of directors
• TMF 2024 presenter Andrea Tietjen, MBA, CPA, on transplant financing
• Data confirmation reports now available in Data Services Portal
• Upcoming TransNet organ check-in reporting change
• UNOS and HRSA agree on new short-term OPTN contract
• UNOS adds leading U.S. technology expert to executive leadership team
• Virginia General Assembly commends UNOS
• UNOS unveils new artwork honoring organ donors and recipients
• Coming soon: CPRA >98% form removal for highly sensitized candidates
• Upcoming change to TransNet user management and access
• Coming soon: Change to the Organ Offer Acceptance Limit
• CPRA >98% form for highly sensitized candidates removed
• UNOS statement on OPTN requests for proposals
• Ryker Tucker
• UNOS applauds passage of FAA reauthorization bill
• Coming soon: Offer Filters for liver and heart allocation
• New enhancements added to DonorNet
• UNOS welcomes new chief legal officer
• TMF 2024 Heckenkemper Award Winner: Nancy Metzler honored
• Offer Filters for liver and heart now available
• Liver treatment options added for HCC exception candidates
• Transplant programs, OPOs must specify second Patient Safety Contact as of July 25
• Michael J Canada
• UNOS applauds U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for increasing funding for the OPTN Modernization Initiative
• UPDATE: UNOS responds to inaccuracies in Bloomberg Law article
• William Bradley James "BJ" Sigafoos
• Steven Russell Eugene Henson
• UNOS responds to inquiry by Sens. Wyden, Grassley about new Chief Technology Officer
• Andrew Klein, M.D. named UNOS Chief Medical Officer
• Pre-implementation notice: Standardize six-minute walk for lung allocation
• Notice of data privacy event
• Implementation notice: Standardize six-minute walk for lung allocation
• UNOS responds to House subcommittee hearing
• UNOS sets the record straight
• UNOS fires back at defamatory statements that it has acted unlawfully
• UNOS applauds House action to prohibit discrimination in organ transplants
• Dec. 16, 2024: Join UNOS and Donate Life America for the National Tree of Life event
• UNOS applauds introduction of the Organ Donation Referral Improvement Act
• Andrew George Levitt
• UNOS remains committed to strengthening the system
• 21 organizations join UNOS in support of the Organ Donation Referral Improvement Act
• Let us know what you think!
• UNOS continuously strengthens the security of the OPTN IT system
• UNOS and Donate Life America invite you to honor donors
• UNOS CEO Urges Congressional Action on Lifesaving Reforms
• UNOS names 2024 Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award recipient
• Leslie and Bill Carruth awarded annual Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award
• Sheila Jones
• U.S. surpassed 48,000 organ transplants in 2024
• A more efficient way to get organs to patients in need
• 90,000 people are waiting for a kidney. Here's one way to get them a kidney faster.
• We can track Amazon packages-why not lifesaving organs?
• Organs shouldn’t be transported in airline cargo. Here's why.
• Lung CAS summary data updated
• UNOS’ organ matching technology is working 24/7, 365 days a year
• What is xenotransplantation, and how far away is it?
• UNOS’ high expectations for IT security standards – and what’s next
• TMF 2025 presenter Samantha Ramirez on the Evolving Role of Transplant Coordinators
• Efficiently matching patients with organs for transplant
• Transforming transplant program operations with data-driven tools
• TMF 2025 speaker Cathi Murphey on Kidney Paired Donation
• TMF 2025 presenters Geatrakas and Socci on Creating a Healthy Relationship between transplant staff and the C-Suite
• TMF 2025 speaker Laura Butler on Collaborative Leadership in Transplantation
• TMF 2025 speaker Ankit Mathur on AI in Transplant and OPO Operations
• UNOS adds two members to its board of directors
• Waitlist deaths decrease under UNOS’ operation of nation’s organ system
• Tales from the OR and how Congress can help
• UNOS updates its mission and vision to highlight its growing impact
• How UNOS uses data to help transplant programs improve
• Organ donor hospitals and transplant hospitals –how do they differ?