Resources

Executive Branch

Congress

• Executive Order

• Proposed Rule on  OPO accountability

• HHS Remarks on Proposed Rule

• Jerry Mande letter to Secretary Azar and Administrator Verma

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• Senators Grassley and Young to OIG

• Senate Finance Committee to UNOS

• Senators Warren and Blumenthal to HHS

• Rep. Porter oversight to HHS

• Reps. Porter and Bass to HHS

• 25 Reps letter to HHS about OPO rule

Policy Papers

• The Bridgespan Group

• Day One Project 

• Donna Cryer fact-check letter

• Bryan Sivak fact-check letter

• 1-pager on OPO reform 

• 1-pager on racial disparities 

Peer Reviewed Research

• "A Comparison of the Content and Quality of Organ Donation Discussions with African American Families who Authorize and Refuse Donation"

          Springer June 30, 2020 

• "Fixing Organ Donation: What Gets Measured, Gets Fixed"

           Journal of American Medical Association  May 27, 2020

• "Improvements in Organ Donation: Riding the Coattails of a National Tragedy"

           Clinical Transplantation  November 19, 2019 

• "Changing Metrics of Organ Procurement Oganization Performance in Order to Increase Performance Rates in the United States"

           American Journal of Transplantation  July 20, 2017

• "Regional Differences in Communication Process and Outcomes of Requests for Solid Organ Donation"

           American Journal of Transplantation  June 17, 2017​

Letters​​

• Bipartisan reform of organ procurement organizations (OPOs) will save lives 

           Global Liver Institute August 24th, 2020

• Organize public comment in response to proposed rule

           Organize February, 2020

• GLI  Responds to AOPO's Recent Misinformation Campaign

           Global Liver Institute October 30th, 2019

• Bipartisan reform of organ procurement organizations (OPOs) will save lives

           Global Liver Institute  October, 2019

• Fact check of AOPO claims from former Chief Technology Officer of HHS to Sec. Azar

           Global Liver Institute October, 2019

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