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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 will not withstand legal scrutiny. Read more →
Science Over Sensationalism
Summary of Recent Johns Hopkins Webinar
The comprehensive Johns Hopkins University webinar featuring a panel of true national experts rose above the misinformation, bad data, and unsupported sensationalism that has marked much of the policy discussion over the past four years. Read more →
Censorship News
SID&T Praises Boston Globe For Attacking CMS Censorship
View peer reviewed abstracts and analyses showing flaws in the CMS governing RULE. Let the data, not politics, decide the fate of patients and families. SID&T provides a forum for the best available research on donation and transplant. Read more →
Facts Not Allegations Should Guide Donation and Transplant Reform
Kentucky: Science in Donation & Transplant Statement on Coverage of Kentucky Allegations
The recent sensational headlines caused by another poorly researched NPR post again highlight that we are sadly experiencing a time when certain influencers are using misinformation and sensationalism to game. Read more →
SID&T Advisory Board Announcement
SID&T Advisory Board Announcement
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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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Hear From The Experts
Hear from some of America’s leading organ donation, transplant and public health experts. Dr. Tom Rosenthal a renowned Los Angeles transplant surgeon and Medical Director, Dr. Gerald Wilson Chairman of We Are Sharing Hope SC, and Dr. Herb Conaway Deputy Speaker and Health Committee Chairman of the New Jersey General Assembly.
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Legislative Initiatives
SID&T has drafted and promoted Federal legislation to produce true organ donation and transplant reform based on science not politics. HHS has ignored the science of the landmark NASEM report and it is time for Congress to act. Further it is presenting model State legislation to protect the non-profit status of the system.
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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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WHO WE ARE
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 On True Reform
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Joe Roth
The late nationally recognized expert in organ procurement Joe Roth led the New Jersey Sharing Network as CEO and President for many years and is a past President of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations.
Joe Roth has a legacy that triumphs over self-interested politics in community healthcare, organ donation, and transplants. We will continue to feature him on the SID&T website.
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Dr. Gerald Wilson
Dr. Wilson respects SID&T’s call for industry alignment. Aligning all central players in donation and transplant, as SID&T and NASEM is the only way to engender comprehensive solutions.
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Dr. J. Thomas Rosenthal
Dr. Rosenthal, a recognized donation and transplant expert joins SID&T’s call for legitimate reform.
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Herb Conaway, M.D.
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.
