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U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation
The
Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT) was established
to assist the HHS Secretary in
- enhancing
organ donation,
- ensuring
that the system of organ transplantation is grounded in the
best available medical science,
- assuring
the public that the system is as effective and equitable as
possible, and thereby
- increasing
public confidence in the integrity and effectiveness of the
transplantation system.
Meetings
Next
Meeting: November 4-5, 2004, Washington, DC
Sixth
Meeting: May 6-7, 2004, Washington, DC
Summary Meeting Notes
Fifth Meeting:
November 6-7, 2003, Washington, DC
Summary Meeting Notes
Fourth Meeting:
May 22-23, 2003, Washington, DC
Summary Meeting Notes
Third Meeting:
November 18-19, 2002, Washington, DC
Summary Meeting Notes
Second Meeting:
May 30-31, 2002, Washington, DC
Summary Meeting Notes
First Meeting:
December 3-4, 2001, Herndon, Virginia
Summary Meeting Notes
Recommendations
to the HHS Secretary
Members
ACOT has
up to 41 members including the chair. Members are non-governmental
individuals with diverse backgrounds in fields such as organ
donation, health care public policy, transplantation medicine
and surgery, critical care medicine and other medical specialties
involved in the identification and referral of donors, non-physician
transplant professions, nursing, epidemiology, immunology, law
and bioethics, behavioral sciences, economics and statistics,
as well as representatives of transplant candidates, transplant
recipients, organ donors, and family members. Membership
roster
Legislative
Authority
ACOT was established
under the authority of 42 U.S.C. Section 217a, Section 222 of
the Public Health Service Act, as amended, and 42 CFR 121.12
(2000).
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