Recovery and Preservation
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2021-2022 Executive Committee Staff Liaison: Anne Kreiss, CAE (akreiss@myAST.org) Chair: Heidi Yeh, MD Co-Chair: Jorge Mallea, MD Past Chair: Korkut Uygun, PhD Board Liaison: Burnett (Beau) Kelly, MD, MBA, FACS, FAST Patricia Niles, RN Gregory Tietjen, PhD Gordon Bowen, MS Early Career: Siavash Raigani, MD |
Advisory Board David Klassen, MD, Chief Medical Officer Alvin Roth, PhD, Professor of Economics James Markmann, MD, Chief of Transplantation Robert Langer, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering Lori West MD, Director David Sachs, MD, Professor of Immunology David Hartell, MA, Executive Director Gerald Brandacher, MD, Scientific Director, Utkan Demirci, PhD, Professor of Radiology Jason Acker, PhD, Past President Jayan Nagendran, MD, PhD John Bischof, PhD Matthew Wadsworth, MBA Gina Dunne Smith Kevin Myer, MSHA David Nelson, MD |
2021-2022 Initiatives
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Hold a COP-wide discussion to brainstorm ways to build on the existing recommendations for the financial and logistical issues that must be addressed for widespread implementation of new preservation technologies
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Hold a COP-wide discussion to brainstorm ways to develop networking opportunities for organ perfusion and preservation researchers
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Assemble COP member nominations and propose sessions at ATC 2022 on recovery and preservation topics, in collaboration with other COPs
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Propose joint session on preservation and funding at an international conference
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Assemble a publicly available report from existing UNOS STARfile/SRTR data on heart, liver, and lung perfusion in clinical practice (e.g., donor characteristics, outcomes), which can be updated every 6 months to 1 year
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Create one or more reports or perspective articles on concrete goals for early clinical implementation of technologies that can extend heart, liver, and kidney preservation times from hours to multiple days. These will be based on structured interviews with transplant physicians, surgeons, and organ procurement personnel, likely in collaboration with other relevant COPs
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Assemble COP member nominations and proposed AST journal club topics for 2021-2022, in collaboration with other COPs
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Develop COP advisory board membership plan within executive committee meetings
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Codify EC membership election plan within executive committee meetings
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Develop RAP COP nomination plan within executive committee meetings.