[Federal Register: April 5, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 65)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation; Notice of Meeting
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of meeting of the Advisory Committee on Organ
Transplantation.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, the Federal Advisory Committee
Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is hereby given of the
tenth meeting of the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation
(ACOT), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The meeting will
be held from approximately 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on May 4, 2006, and from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 5, 2006, at the Rockville DoubleTree Hotel,
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The meeting will be
open to the public; however, seating is limited and pre-registration is
encouraged (see below).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the authority of 42 U.S.C. 217a,
Section 222 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, and 42 CFR
121.12 (2000), ACOT was established to assist the Secretary in
enhancing organ donation, ensuring that the system of organ
transplantation is grounded in the best available medical science, and
assuring the public that the system is as effective and equitable as
possible, and, thereby, increasing public confidence in the integrity
and effectiveness of the transplantation system. ACOT is composed of up
to 25 members, including the Chair. Members are serving as Special
Government Employees and have diverse backgrounds in fields such as
organ donation, health care public policy, transplantation medicine and
surgery, critical care medicine and other medical specialties involved
in the identification and referral of donors, non-physician transplant
professions, nursing, epidemiology, immunology, law and bioethics,
behavioral sciences, economics and statistics, as well as
representatives of transplant candidates, transplant recipients, organ
donors, and family members.
ACOT will hear presentations on insurance coverage for living
donors, donor.com issues, donation after cardiac death (DCD) costs,
tissue regulation, Medicare/Medicaid Part D plans not covering
immunosuppressive
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medications, and OPTN kidney allocation modeling.
The draft meeting agenda will be available on April 24 on the
Department's donation Web site at http://www.organdonor.gov/acot.html.
A registration form will be available on April 3 on the
Department's donation Web site at http://www.organdonor.gov/acot.html.
The completed registration form should be submitted by facsimile to
Professional and Scientific Associates (PSA), the logistical support
contractor for the meeting, at fax number (703) 234-1701. Individuals
without access to the Internet who wish to register may call Sowjanya
Kotakonda with PSA at (703) 234-1737. Individuals who plan to attend
the meeting and need special assistance, such as sign language
interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should notify the
ACOT Executive Secretary, Remy Aronoff, in advance of the meeting. Mr.
Aronoff may be reached by telephone at 301-443-3264, e-mail:
Remy.Aronoff@hrsa.hhs.gov or in writing at the address provided below.
Management and support services for ACOT functions are provided by the
Division of Transplantation, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Health
Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn
Building, Room 12C-06, Rockville, Maryland 20857; telephone number 301-
443-7577.
After the presentations and ACOT discussions, members of the public
will have an opportunity to provide comments. Because of the
Committee's full agenda and the timeframe in which to cover the agenda
topics, public comment will be limited. All public comments will be
included in the record of the ACOT meeting.
Dated: March 28, 2006.
Elizabeth M. Duke,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6-4870 Filed 4-4-06; 8:45 am]
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