Deceased donor kidney allocation--webinar today

The UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee proposal to change the existing kidney-allocation policy for deceased donors
Webinar: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Eastern time: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Central time: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Mountain time: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Pacific time: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
 
Speakers/Faculty:
Kenneth Andreoni, MD, Chair, United Network for Organ Sharing Kidney Transplantation Committee; Associate Professor of Surgery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

• UNOS Kidney Committee Allocation Concepts:Not As Different As Some Want You to Believe… (Microsoft Powerpoint Required)

Benjamin Hippen, MD, Metrolina Nephrology Associates, P.A. and the Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

• Are We Clear On The Concept? Empirical And Normative Concerns (Microsoft Powerpoint Required)

Dorry Segev, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology, Director of Clinical Research, Division of Transplantation, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD

Tom Mone, CEO/Executive Vice President, OneLegacy Organ Procurement Organization, Los Angeles, CA

Supplemental Materials:

• Clarification of Media Reports on OPTN Kidney Allocation Concept Document (Internet Connection Required)
  
  
• Concepts for Kidney Allocation – Concepts for Kidney Allocation prepared by the UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee (40 pages) (Acrobat Reader Required))

Jim Warren, Editor &; Publisher, Transplant News - Moderator 

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See my earlier posts on this proposed policy change in the allocation of deceased donor kidneys:

New proposals for allocating deceased-donor kidneys

NPR On Point discusses kidney allocation proposals

How not to assign kidneys

Debate on kidney allocation in NEJM