Issue #11 | March 2025

Welcome to the Science in Donation & Transplant Newsletter!

In this issue:

1. Our Advisory Board Answers “Why SID&T”?

2. The Repetitive History of CMS Failing Patients and Donors with Flawed Performance Metrics for Organ Procurement Organizations

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

Our Advisory Board Answers “Why SID&T”?

See and hear from some of the nation’s leading transplant surgeons, researchers, ethicists, and organ donation experts about the importance of the mission of Science in Donation & Transplant.

The Repetitive History of CMS Failing Patients and Donors with Flawed Performance Metrics for Organ Procurement Organizations

Over the fifty plus year history of Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in the United States, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has empirically and repeatedly failed to develop and adopt a reliable and comprehensive assessment of their relative performance.

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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