• OPTN response to HRSA data directive available for viewing
  Wednesday, December 18, 2024
  Comment offers detailed feedback on proposed new data collection.
  

• OPTN Board approves updates to bylaws, new procedures for OPTN computer system access
  Monday, December 9, 2024
  Update support recent establishment of independent OPTN Board.
  

• Nominations sought for the OPTN’s Transitional Nominating Committee
  Friday, December 6, 2024
  Submit response by Dec. 13, 2024.
  

• Rexanah Wyse Morrissette named interim OPTN executive director
  Thursday, December 5, 2024
  Her selection followed a national search.
  

• Two-year monitoring report showing effect of eGFR policy change available
  Monday, December 2, 2024
  Committees will continue to study ways to improve access to kidney transplantation.
  

• OPTN Board approves update to transplant program outcome monitoring criteria; expected to increase organ usage, reduce waitlist deaths
  Monday, December 2, 2024
  Action adjusts threshold for review of transplant program outcomes.
  

• Comments sought on OPTN data collection relating to data directive
  Monday, November 25, 2024
  Sixty-day public comment period ends January 3, 2025.
  

• Comments sought on proposed new and updated OPTN data collection initiatives
  Monday, November 25, 2024
  Package addresses data collection updates relating to six OPTN projects.
  

• Race and hepatitis C status no longer included in calculation used to estimate deceased donor kidney function; policy change anticipated to increase equity
  Thursday, October 31, 2024
  This new calculation is anticipated to increase equity and transparency in the nation's procurement and transplantation system.
  

• Special public comment period: OPTN bylaw and governance documents update
  Friday, October 25, 2024
  Register for a community town hall on Oct. 29 to learn more about the updates.
  

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