U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation
The Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT) was
established to assist the HHS Secretary in:
- Enhancing organ donation,
- Ensuring that the system of organ transplantation is grounded
in the best available medical science,
- 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.
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Meetings
Next Meeting: November 13-14, 2008
Fifteenth Meeting: May 5-6, 2008
Summary
Meeting Notes
ACOT Meeting Notes
Archive
Recommendations to the HHS Secretary
Summary Consensus
Recommendations 1 - 50
Full Consensus
Recommendations
Members
ACOT has up to 25 members including the chair. Members are
non-governmental individuals with 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. Membership
roster
Legislative Authority
ACOT was established under the authority of 42 U.S.C. Section
217a, Section 222 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended,
and 42 CFR 121.12 (2000).
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