Membership & Professional
Standards Committee (MPSC)
OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors
Jonathan Chen, MD, Chair
Deborah Sudan, MD, Vice Chair
November 12-13, 2014
Ongoing Committee Initiatives
Fall 2014 Public Comment issues:
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OPTN Quality Assurance and Process
Improvement (QAPI) requirement
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Pre-Transplant Performance Review
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Promotes patient safety & improves post-transplant survival
Increase access to transplants.
Refine Transplant Hospital Definition
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Promote the efficient management of the OPTN
Ongoing Initiatives
Review of bylaw requirements/qualifications for primary
surgeons and physicians
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Approved Transplant Fellowship
Training Programs
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Primary Physician specialty,
Consider multi-organ procurement subspecialty board certifications
requirement for primary surgeon
 Primary Surgeon Procurement
criteria
Requirement
Consider primary surgeon
 Reassess currency requirements
qualification - primary or first
for primary surgeons and primary
assistant on transplant cases
physicians
Consider requirement for primary
 Pancreas Bylaws Review
physician observation of
(Pancreas Committee)
procurements
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Foreign Board Certification
Define working knowledge for
primary physician qualification
pathways
Organ Perfusion Membership Standards
 Questions
about private, third-party perfusion
companies and OPTN membership
 Recognition
that perfusion technology for other
organs on the horizon
 Address
organs
in general manner, applicable to all
Questions?
Jonathan Chen, MD, Chair, MPSC
Seattle Children’s Hospital
jonathan.chen@seattlechildrens.org
MPSC Liaisons
Sally Aungier - sally.aungier@unos.org
Jacqui O’Keefe - jacqueline.okeefe@unos.org