System Faces Questions Amid Milestone

Kim Uccellini, 42, manager, policy and community relations, UNOS; 33-year kidney transplant recipient, Atlanta.

Brian Shepard, CEO, UNOS, Richmond, VA.

Deepali Kumar, MD, president, American Society of Transplantation; transplant infectious diseases physician, Ajmera Transplant Centre; professor of medicine, University of Toronto.

News release, 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 release, 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 surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

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

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