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Save Lives: Transplant More Usable Organs
Advisory Board members, Michael J. Goldstein, MD, FACS and Anthony Watkins, MD share their experience maximizing the use of available organs to save lives and honor donor families.
Hear From the SID&T Advisory Board
Hear From the SID&T Advisory Board
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40% of OPOs Will Shutter in 2026 if Congress Doesn’t Take Action
The United States has the most successful and sophisticated organ donation and transplant system in the world, yet, inexplicably, federal lawmakers have failed to take action to protect it from profit seeking special interests that are working behind the scenes to dismantle it.
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SID&T Supports NASEM Study
Understand the TIMELINE where HHS ignores the coming, then published, landmark NASEM Report and our outreach to Secretary Becerra to adopt that report’s recommendations.
See SID&T Facts and Reform outlining the truth about our nation’s organ procurement and transplant system and the science-based path forward.
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HRSA Continues Its Heavy Hand of Censorship
The frustrating history of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) failure to establish reliable performance metrics for Organ Procurement Organizations persists today, as SID&T has learned about a federal agency threatening a health research firm that was contracted to work with OPOs to develop an unbiased alternative to CMS’ latest flawed rule…
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CMS OPO Metric Bias Against Large OPOs Research Summary
Continuing research into the controversial Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) metric for ranking the performance of Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) provides more evidence that unless CMS changes course, the metric will give biased results that won’t withstand scrutiny…
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SID&T Letter to Federation of American Scientists Calls Out Jennifer Erickson
In the US, there are 160 transplants per million population; once again, the highest rate in the world. In France, there are 101 per million; in Brazil, it’s 45. Moreover, the US leads the world in the rate of donation growth. From 2017-22, the rate of donation growth in Europe has been …
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SID&T to NPR: Jennifer Erickson Promotes Junk Science on Organ Donation
On its April 13, 2024 program, NPR’s Weekend Edition ran a story, “Patients die everyday waiting for organ transplants. The problem goes beyond donations.” The story was almost entirely based on an interview with Jennifer Erickson, who was identified as a …
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SID&T Responds to the NY Times Story: Organ Transplant System in Chaos
The New York Times’ recent investigation, “Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored,” was a worthy attempt to untangle the fraught and dysfunctional relationship between the organ donation and transplantation system and their federal regulators...
SID&T
Science in Donation and Transplant is a non-profit devoted to the support and education of members and stakeholders in the donation and transplant communities. Donors and transplant recipients alike deserve a well-aligned, science-based system. We advocate reform in concert with leading medical practitioners for enhanced coordination and alignment among organ procurement organizations and transplant centers. Our goal is ensuring 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.
Hear From the Experts That Support Reform
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Anthony Watkins, MD
The Surgical Director of the Center for Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at Tampa General Hospital. Prior, Dr. Watkins was an attending transplant surgeon and clinical assistant professor of surgery at NYU Langone Health.
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Matthew Cooper, MD
Chief of Transplantation, Director of Solid Organ Transplant and a Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Mark B. Adams Distinguished Professor of Surgery.
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Dr. J. Thomas Rosenthal
Dr. J. Thomas Rosenthal, a recognized donation and transplant expert joins SID&T’s call for legitimate reform. In our interview with one of America’s most trusted and experienced experts in organ donation and transplant calls for …
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Anne Murphy, MBA, FACHE
Consultant and former Chief Administrative Officer, Department of Learning Health Sciences University of Michigan Medical School, and Transplant Center Administrative Director – University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers.
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Herb Conaway, MD
Dr. Conaway Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the New Jersey General Assembly Health Committee joins SID&T call for legitimate reform and the need for health care equity.
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Dr. Gerald Wilson
The Surgical Director of the Center for Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at Tampa General Hospital. Prior, Dr. Watkins was an attending transplant surgeon and clinical assistant professor of surgery at NYU Langone Health.
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Michael J. Goldstein, MD, FACS
Dr. Goldstein serves as the Director of the Division of Organ Transplantation at Hackensack University Medical Center OPTN/UNOS surgical program director for adult and pediatric kidney transplantation, and pancreas transplantation.
