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

 

Meeting Agenda

Hilton Washington, DC/Rockville Executive Meeting Center
1750 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD

 

Monday, May 5, 2008
7:30 am to 8:30 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 am to 8:45 am Welcome and Introductions
  • Chair: Gail Agrawal, JD, MPH, Dean, University of Kansas School of Law
  • Executive Secretary: Gregory Fant, PhD, Health Statistician, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
8:45 am to 9:45 am
Final Report on Economics of Transplantation
  • Mark Schnitzler, Ph.D., Director, Transplant Outcomes and Policy Research, Saint Louis University Center for Outcomes Research
9:45 am to 10:00 am
Break
10:00 am to 11:00 am Update on Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative/Early Kidney Transplantation Conference
  • Stephen T. Bartlett, M.D., Conference Co-Chair University of Maryland Medical Center
11:00 am to 12:00 noon Recovery/Allocation/Transplantation Practices Outside the U.S.
  • Nicholas L. Tilney, M.D. President, The Transplant Society
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm to 1:15 pm

Public Comment

1:15 pm to 2:15 pm Adolescent/Medication Non-adherence/Transitioning from Pediatric- Adolescent Care to Adult Care
  • Robert Ettenger, M.D., Chief of Medical Staff, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical Center
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm Organ Allocation: Geographic Boundaries
  • Robert A. Wolfe, Ph.D. Project Director, Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients
3:15 pm to 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Reports from Workgroups/Discussion/Recommendations
  • Gail Agrawal, JD, MPH, Chair, ACOT
  • Russell Wiesner, M.D. – Funding sources for additional data collection
  • Mary Sue Leffell, Ph.D. – Xenotransplantation
  • Anita Principe, MPA – Living donor advocacy/post-donation complications
  • Jorge Reyes, M.D. – Reducing pediatric deaths on the waitlist
5:00 pm to 5:15 pm Administrative Matters and Adjournment

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
7:30 am to 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast 
8:30 am to 9:30 am Further Discussion and Vote on Workgroup Recommendations
  • (As Necessary)

Tissue Regulation Issue Follow Up

  • ACOT Members
9:30 am to 10:30 am Revised Informed Consent Recommendation
  • Maureen A. McBride, Ph.D., Director of Research, United Network for Organ Sharing
  • Karen Tritz, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Survey and Certification Group
10:30 am to 10:45 am Break
10:45 am to 11:30 pm SRTR/OPTN Living Donors Long-term Follow Up
  • Robert M. Marion, M.D., Clinical Transplant Director
  • Akinlolo O. Ojo., M.D., Ph.D., Epidemiologist Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients
  • Maureen A. McBride, Ph.D., Director of Research, United Network for Organ Sharing
11:30 am to 12:15 pm Overview of NCI/HRSA Project to Study Post-Transplant Tumors and Cancers in the United States
  • Eric Engels, M.D., MPH, Medical Epidemiologist Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
12:15 pm to 12:30 pm Public Comment and Adjournment
12:30 pm Lunch

 

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