Archived Regional Information

• Summer 2024 HRSA Remarks (PDF - 323 KB)
• Summer 2024 OPTN Expeditious Task Force Update (PDF - 440 KB)
• Summer 2024 OPTN Executive Update (PDF - 438 KB)

• Winter 2024 HRSA Update (PDF - 369 KB)
• Winter 2024 Membership & Professional Standards Committee Update (PDF - 442 KB)
• Winter 2024 OPTN Executive Update (PDF - 544 KB)
• Winter 2024 OPTN Expeditious Task Force Regional Meeting Update (PDF - 1 MB)

• Summer 2023 Membership & Professional Standards Committee Update (PDF - 893 KB)
• Summer 2023 Member Quality Update (PDF - 807 KB)
• Summer 2023 OPTN Executive Update (PDF - 1 MB)
• Policy Oversight Committee (PDF - 667 KB)

• Winter 2023 OPTN Executive Update (PDF - 1 MB)
• Winter 2023 Membership & Professional Standards Committee Update (PDF - 519 KB)
• Predictive Analytics (PDF - 709 KB)

• OPTN Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation Committees (PDF - 378 KB)
• OPTN Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee (PDF - 2 MB)
• OPTN Lung Transplantation Committee (PDF - 216 KB)
• Membership & Professional Standards Committee (PDF - 757 KB)

• OPTN Leadership Update (PDF - 503 KB)
• Policy Oversight Committee (PDF - 430 KB)
• Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee (PDF - 938 KB)

• Require Lower Respiratory SARS-CoV-2 Testing for Lung Donors (PDF - 936 KB)
• Update Data Collection to Align with US Public Health Service Guideline 2020 (PDF - 864 KB)
• Guidance for Data Collection Regarding Classification of Citizenship Status (PDF - 906 KB)
• Ethical Considerations of Continuous Distribution in Organ Allocation (PDF - 1 MB)
• Update on OPTN Regional Review Project (PDF - 1 MB)
• Report Primary Graft Dysfunction in Heart Transplant Recipients (PDF - 919 KB)
• Amend Status Extension Requirements in Adult Heart Allocation Policy (PDF - 973 KB)
• Update Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Equivalency Tables (PDF - 1 MB)
• Update on Continuous Distribution of Kidneys and Pancreata (PDF - 1 MB)
• Review of National Liver Review Board (NLRB) Diagnoses and Update to Alcohol-Associated Diagnoses (PDF - 938 KB)
• Establish Continuous Distribution of Lungs (PDF - 3 MB)
• Reassess Inclusion of Race in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Equation (PDF - 620 KB)
• Enhance Transplant Program Performance Monitoring System (PDF - 1 MB)
• Data Collection to Evaluate Organ Logistics and Allocation (PDF - 994 KB)
• Establish Membership Requirements for Uterus Transplant Programs (PDF - 1 MB)
• Refine Lung Data Fields (PDF - 1 MB)

• OPTN Policy Oversight Committee (PDF - 844 KB)
• OPTN Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Committees (PDF - 360 KB)
• OPTN Leadership Update (PDF - 1 MB)

• Clarify Multi-Organ Allocation Policy (PDF - 366 KB)
• Modify the Deceased Donor Registration (DDR) Form (PDF - 365 KB)
• Develop Measures for Primary Graft Dysfunction in Hearts (PDF - 554 KB)
• Update Transplant Program Key Personnel Training and Experience Requirements (PDF - 159 KB)
• Calculate Median MELD at Transplant around the Donor Hospital and Update Sorting within Liver Allocation (PDF - 891 KB)
• 2021-2024 OPTN Strategic Plan (PDF - 664 KB)
• Require Notification of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Typing Changes (PDF - 162 KB)
• Update National Liver Review Board Guidance Documents and Policy Clarification (PDF - 404 KB)
• Revise General Considerations In Assessment for Transplant Candidacy (PDF - 359 KB)

• Align OPTN Policy with U.S. Public Health Service Guideline, 2020 (PDF - 577 KB)
• Executive Update (PDF - 1 MB)
• Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Committees (PDF - 602 KB)
• Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee
• Lung Transplantation Committee (PDF - 642 KB)
• Performance and Member Collaborative Projects (PDF - 188 KB)
• SRTR Living Donor Collective Update (PDF - 373 KB)
• The Future State of Organ Allocation (PDF - 1 MB)

• Align OPTN Policy with U.S. Public Health Service Guideline, 2020 (PDF - 746 KB)
• Guidance and Policy Clarifications Addressing Adult Heart Allocation Policy (PDF - 692 KB)
• Guidance Addressing the Use of Pediatric Heart Exceptions (PDF - 708 KB)
• Modify Living Donor Policy to Include Living VCA Donors (PDF - 712 KB)
• Further Enhancements to the National Liver Review Board (NLRB) (PDF - 711 KB)
• Programming VCA Allocation in UNet (PDF - 375 KB)
• Modify Data Collection on VCA Living Donors (PDF - 387 KB)
• COVID-19 Emergency Policies and Data Collection (PDF - 978 KB)
• Updated Cohort for Calculation of the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) (PDF - 595 KB)
• Update on the Continuous Distribution of Organs Project (PDF - 995 KB)
• COVID-19 Emergency Policies and Data Collection (PDF - 978 KB)
• OPTN Public Comment Orientation (PDF - 889 KB)

• Executive Update (PDF - 909 KB)
• Membership & Professional Standards Committee (PDF - 603 KB)
• Liver & Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee (PDF - 1 MB)
• Kidney Transplantation Committee (PDF - 835 KB)
• Policy Oversight Committee (PDF - 678 KB)
• 2020 OPTN Regional Review (PDF - 776 KB)

• National Heart Review Board for Pediatrics (Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee) (PDF - 559 KB)
• Data Collection to Assess Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Access to Transplant (Minority Affairs Committee) (PDF - 366 KB)
• Addressing Medically Urgent Candidates in New Kidney Allocation Policy (Kidney Transplantation Committee) (PDF - 556 KB)
• Distribution of Kidneys and Pancreata from Alaska (Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation Committees) (PDF - 360 KB)
• Modifications to Released Kidney and Pancreas Allocation (Organ Procurement Organization Committee) (PDF - 363 KB)
• Enhancements to the National Liver Review Board (Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee) (PDF - 584 KB)
• Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Equivalency Tables Update (2020) (Histocompatibility Committee) (PDF - 761 KB)
• Guidance and Policy Modifications Addressing Blood Type Determination (Operations and Safety Committee) (PDF - 369 KB)
  • Modify Blood Type Determination and Reporting Policies
  • Guidance on Blood Type Determination
• Update to VCA Transplant Outcomes Data Collection (Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee) (PDF - 427 KB)
• Measuring Transplant Outcomes by Collecting Data on Children Born to Uterus Recipients (Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee) (PDF - 404 KB)

Abdominal

• Addressing Medically Urgent Candidates in New Kidney Allocation Policy (Kidney Transplantation Committee) (PDF - 803 KB)
• Modifications to Release Kidney and Pancreas Allocation (Organ Procurement Organization Committee) (PDF - 368 KB)
• Enhancements to the National Liver Review Board (Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee) (PDF - 594 KB)
• Liver and Intestinal Transplantation Committee Update (PDF - 1 MB)

Thoracic

• Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee (PDF - 1 MB)
  • Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee Update
  • National Heart Review Board for Pediatrics
  • Continuous Distribution of Lungs Update

• Membership and Professional Standards Committee (PDF - 538 KB)
• Policy Oversight Committee (PDF - 590 KB)
• UNOS Member Quality Department (PDF - 746 KB)
• Histocompatibility Committee (PDF - 615 KB)
• Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee (PDF - 643 KB)
• Transplant Coordinators Committee (PDF - 469 KB)

• Winter 2020 OPTN Region Updates (PDF - 1 MB)
• Public Comment Proposals Winter 2020 (PDF - 4 MB) (1/2020)

Discussion agenda

• Modify Data Submission Policies, OPTN Data Advisory Committee (PDF - 711 KB)
• Data Collection to Evaluate the Logistical Impact of Broader Distribution, OPTN Operations and Safety Committee (PDF - 649 KB)
• Eliminate the Use of DSA and Region in Kidney Allocation Policy, OPTN Kidney Transplantation Committee (PDF - 1 MB)
• Eliminate the Use of DSA and Region in Pancreas Allocation Policy, OPTN Pancreas Transplantation Committee (PDF - 813 KB)
• Expedited Placement of Livers, OPTN Organ Procurement Organization Committee (PDF - 679 KB)
• Continuous Distribution of Lungs Concept Paper, OPTN Thoracic Transplantation Committee (PDF - 6 MB)

Non-discussion agenda

• Modify Appointment Process for Vice Chair, OPTN Histocompatibility Committee (PDF - 636 KB)
• Clarification of Pre-Existing Liver Disease, OPTN Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee (PDF - 441 KB)

• Thoracic (PDF - 671 KB)
• Pediatric (PDF - 703 KB)
• Operations and Safety Committee (PDF - 658 KB)
• Liver (All regions except Region 8) (PDF - 3 MB)
• Liver (Region 8) (PDF - 3 MB)

• National liver review board (NLRB) six-week report (PDF - 2 MB) (7/2019)