System Faces Questions Amid Milestone

Kim Uccellini, 42, supervisor, coverage and group relations, UNOS; 33-year kidney transplant recipient, Atlanta.

Brian Shepard, CEO, UNOS, Richmond, VA.

Deepali Kumar, MD, president, American Society of Transplantation; transplant infectious ailments doctor, Ajmera Transplant Centre; professor of drugs, University of Toronto.

News launch, UNOS.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: “Realizing the Promises of Equity in the Organ Transplant System.”

Health Resources & Services Administration: “Organ Donation Statistics.”

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN): “Data.”

News launch, Unites States Sente Committee on Finance.

Journal of Clinical Medicine: “Progress and Recent Advances in Solid Organ Transplantation.”

Yuri S. Genyk, MD, transplant surgeon, co-director, USC Transplant Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.

Timucin Taner, MD, PhD, transplant surgeon, division chair of transplant surgical procedure, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

Kim Lute, 48, two-time liver transplant recipient; regional communications supervisor, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta.

Journal of Medical Economics: “Mean lifetime survival estimates following solid organ transplantation in the U.S. and UK.”