• Job Announcement – Interim OPTN Executive Director
  Thursday, July 18, 2024
  Applicants must submit resume and cover letter no later than 11:59PM (ET) on July 31, 2024.
  

• Update on the annual OPTN call for nominations
  Tuesday, July 2, 2024
  The OPTN will continue to send the community updates.
  

• SRTR previews patient-oriented website design
  Friday, June 28, 2024
  Patients can explore interactive tools and plain language resources.
  

• OPTN Board approves exclusion of race, hepatitis C status from estimate of deceased donor kidney function
  Friday, June 28, 2024
  The OPTN Board of Directors approves several policies at its meeting June 17-18, 2024.
  

• Three-month monitoring report for updated liver urgency policy shows progress
  Tuesday, June 4, 2024
  Next planned report will address six-month period after policy implementation.
  

• National webinar for transplant professionals to provide information about July 2024 implementation of pre-transplant performance metric
  Thursday, May 30, 2024
  Webinar recording available.
  

• Lung transplant rate increases by 16 percent one year after continuous distribution policy is implemented
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  A new monitoring report captures one year of post-implementation data.
  

• Virtual town hall addresses OPTN Board Separation and future Governance
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  Community town hall to be held on June 10, 2024.
  

• Annual kidney allocation calculator updates
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  The KDPI reference population is updated by June 1 of each year, as required by OPTN Policy.
  

• Goals exceeded by participants in two national OPTN Collaboratives aimed at sharing organizational learning, driving improvement
  Thursday, May 16, 2024
  Executive reports with final data are now available for both Collaboratives.
  

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