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Hear from the Experts That Support Reform
The professional medical community and its leaders are taking a stand against the new Rule and favor the SID&T and NASEM reforms leading to a peer-reviewed science-based alignment of the organ procurement and transplantation system. This page includes highlights of the national medical leaders sharing their decades of knowledge and commitment to sound metrics and best practices guiding procurement and transplant. Science not politics must govern the most sensitive areas of our health care system.
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.
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.
Michael J. Goldstein, MD, FACS
The following videos are from an interview with Michael J. Goldstein, MD, FACS. His depth of knowledge born from experience as both an OPO executive and leading surgeon delivers unique insight into a better path forward. 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.
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 peer-reviewed science-based improvement in the alignment of the donation and transplant world to improve patient results in the world’s best system.
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.
Herb Conaway, MD
In this video presentation, Dr. Conaway, a leading advocate for health equity and a peer-reviewed science-based approach to policy, joins SID&T in calling into question the adoption of the Rule governing organ donation and transplant in late 2020 and advocating for true reform that protects the nation’s non-profit system.
Dr. Gerald Wilson
Aligning all central players in donation and transplant, as SID&T and NASEM is the only way to engender comprehensive solutions. Dr. Gerald Wilson is a General Surgery Specialist in Columbia, SC and has over 49 years of experience in the medical field, and respects SID&T’s call for industry alignment.
