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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation

 

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Meeting Agenda

Hilton Rockville Executive
1750 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD


 

Thursday, November 13, 2008
7:30 am to 8:30 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 am to 8:45 am Welcome and Introductions
8:45 am to 9:15 am
Review of Past ACOT Recommendations
  • Remy Aronoff, Interim ACOT Executive Secretary
9:15 am to 9:30 am Tools” Available to the Secretary of HHS for Implementation of ACOT Recommendations
  • Emily Marcus Levine, JD, Senior Attorney,
    Office of General Counsel, DHHS
9:30 am to 10:00 am Report on New York State Transplant Council, Committee On Quality Improvement in Living Kidney Donation
  • David Conti, MD, Director of Transplantation,
    Albany Medical College, ACOT Member
10:00 am to 10:15 am
Break
10:15 am to 11:15 am OPO Quality Assessment/Performance
  • Charlie Alexander, Executive Director, the Living Legacy Foundation
    of Maryland
  • David Marshman, OPO Quality Systems Manager, LifeNet Health
11:15 am to 11:45 am OPTN Strategic Plan
  • Walter Graham, JD, Executive Director,
    United Network for Organ Sharing
11:45 am to 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm to 1:15 pm Public Comment
1:15 pm to 2:15 pm Status of OPTN Living Donor Follow Up
  • Matthew Cooper, MD, Chair, OPTN Living Donor Committee
  • Walter Graham, J.D., Executive Director, United Network for Organ Sharing
2:15 pm to 3:00 pm Reports from Workgroups/Discussion/Recommendation
  • Gail Agrawal, JD, MPH, ACOT Chair
  • Anita Principe, MPA – Living Donor Advocacy/ Post-donation Complications
  • Jorge Reyes, MD – Reducing Pediatric Deaths on the Waitlist
  • Russell Wiesner, MD – Funding Sources for Additional Data Collection
3:00 pm to 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

Summing Up 2001-2008 & Long-Range Areas of Interest for ACOT
  • Gail Agrawal, ACOT Chair
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Economic Impact of Transplantation Final Report
  • Mark Schnitzler, PhD, Director, Transplant Outcomes and
    Policy Research, St. Louis University Center for Outcomes Research
5:00 pm Adjournment

 

 

 

Friday, November 14, 2008
7:30 am to 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast 
8:30 am to 9:00 am Further Discussion and Vote on Workgroup Recommendations Resulting from May 2008 Meeting (as necessary)
  • ACOT Members
9:00 am to 10:00 am Projected Growth in End-Stage Renal Disease and Implications for Future Demand for Kidney Transplants
  • Joseph Vassalotti, MD, Chief Medical Officer National Kidney Foundation
10:00 am to 10:15 am Break
10:15 am to 11:15 am Reimbursement and the Changing Nature of the Donor Pool
  • Tom Mone, Chief Executive Officer, OneLegacy
11:15 am to 11:45 am Briefing on OPTN White Paper on Charges for Pancreata Recovered for Islet Transplantation
  • Joseph Keith Melancon, MD, Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program, Georgetown University School of Medicine
11:45 am to 12:00 pm Public Comment
12:00 pm Adjournment

 

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