[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14472-14473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5460]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Organ 
Transplantation.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is hereby given of the 
fourteenth meeting of the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation 
(ACOT), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The meeting will 
be held from approximately 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on May 5, 2008, and from 
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 6, 2008, at the Hilton Washington D.C./
Rockville Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 
20852. The meeting will be open to the public; however, seating is 
limited and pre-registration is encouraged (see below).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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), ACOT was established to assist the Secretary in 
enhancing organ donation, ensuring that the system of organ 
transplantation is grounded in the best available medical science, and 
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. ACOT is composed of up 
to 25 members, including the Chair. Members are serving as Special 
Government Employees and have 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.
    ACOT will hear presentations on the ``Kidney Disease Outcome 
Quality Initiative/Early Kidney Transplantation Conference'' held on 
March 19-20, 2007; adolescent/medication nonadherence/transitioning 
from pediatric-adolescent care to adult care; revised informed consent 
recommendation; recovery/allocation/transplantation practices outside 
the United States; and a final report on the economics of 
transplantation. The four ACOT work groups also will update the

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full Committee on their deliberations on informed consent, sources of 
funding for additional data collection, reducing pediatric deaths on 
the waitlist, and xenotransplantation.
    The draft meeting agenda will be available on April 21 on the 
Department's donation Web site at http://www.organdonor.gov/acot.html.
    A registration form will be available on April 7 on the 
Department's donation Web site at http://www.organdonor.gov/acot.html. 
The completed registration form should be submitted by facsimile to 
Professional and Scientific Associates (PSA), the logistical support 
contractor for the meeting, at fax number (703) 234-1701. Individuals 
without access to the Internet who wish to register may call Amanda 
Madeline with PSA at (703) 234-1244. Registration can also be completed 
electronically at http://www.psava.com/dot/acot2008/. Individuals who 
plan to attend the meeting and need special assistance, such as sign 
language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should 
notify the ACOT Executive Secretary, Gregory Fant, Ph.D., in advance of 
the meeting. Dr. Fant may be reached by telephone at 301-443-8728, e-
mail: [email protected] or in writing at the address provided 
below. Management and support services for ACOT functions are provided 
by the Division of Transplantation, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Health 
Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn 
Building, Room 12C-06, Rockville, Maryland 20857; telephone number 301-
443-7577.
    After the presentations and ACOT discussions, members of the public 
will have an opportunity to provide comments. Because of the 
Committee's full agenda and the timeframe in which to cover the agenda 
topics, public comment will be limited. All public comments will be 
included in the record of the ACOT meeting.

    Dated: March 12, 2008.
Elizabeth M. Duke,
Administrator.
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