Membership & Professional Standards Committee (MPSC)

The OPTN Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) is an operating committee of the OPTN. The MPSC maintains membership criteria and monitors OPTN member compliance with OPTN membership criteria, OPTN bylaws and policies, and the OPTN Final Rule. The MPSC takes action or makes recommendations for further action to the OPTN Board of Directors as needed.

The MPSC, through peer review:

• Reviews events identified as presenting a risk to patient safety, public health or the integrity of the OPTN.
• Evaluates and supports OPTN members by providing feedback on and recommendations to improve members’ performance, compliance, and quality systems.
• Reviews applications for membership in the OPTN, approval of designated transplant programs, and changes in OPTN member key personnel.

The MPSC also:

• Identifies opportunities for transplant community education to improve patient safety and safeguard the integrity of the transplant system, often through dissemination of successful examples of membership engagement and sharing of best practices.
• Develops bylaws and policies related to membership criteria or the oversight responsibilities of the MPSC that align with the OPTN mission to maximize organ supply, provide efficient and safe care, and provide equitable access to transplantation.

Current projects

Review

• Update Transplant Program Key Personnel Training and Experience Requirements

Implemented

• Update Criteria for Post-Transplant Graft Survival Metrics
• Require Reporting of Patient Safety Events
• Enhance Transplant Program Performance Monitoring System
• Change to Hospital-Based OPO Voting Privileges (8/2018)
• Revising OPTN Bylaws Appendix L (1/2018)
• Revise transplant fellowship training program approval bylaws (7/2017)
• Primary transplant surgeon requirement changes (8/2016)
• Primary liver transplant physician subspecialty requirement changes (8/2016)
• Primary kidney transplant physician update (8/2016)
• Update transplant hospital definition (8/2016)

Committee members