Issue #8 | October 2024

Welcome to the Science in Donation & Transplant Newsletter!

In this issue:

1. SID&T Announces Advisory Board

2. SID&T Pushes Back Against False Testimony at House Subcommittee Hearing

3. We Again Advocate for Science-Based Reporting

4. Join Science in Donation & Transplant on Your Favorite Social Media Platform

SID&T Announces Advisory Board!

The SID&T Advisory Board is intended to provide counsel and guidance on donation and transplantation performance measurement, policy development, and messaging to ensure public trust essential to organ donation …

SID&T Pushes Back Against False Testimony at House Subcommittee Hearing

Members of Congress have heard directly from SID&T using peer-reviewed science, data, and objective facts, to combat the outrageous and inflammatory so-called testimony of Greg Segal at their recent House hearing …

We Again Advocate for Science-Based Reporting

The Vox. com news site recently posted a misleading and factually incorrect article about the false issue of alleged missing “pancreas” in organ donation. See our response …

Join Science in Donation & Transplant on Your Favorite Social Media Platform

Did you know that we post regularly across a series of popular social media platforms? Give us a follow and join us as we share updates from the news, Washington D.C., and debunk bad science and misinformation on OPOs, and organ donation and transplantation.

Science in Donation and Transplant is a non-profit established in November 2020 devoted to improving OPOs performance and placing patient results above politics.

Our goal is to ensure that the metrics and measures used to credential, license, designate and certify donation and transplant organizations are grounded in science and protected from political whim and private financial influence.

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