[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44936-44937]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-18935]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation; Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given of the following 
meeting:

    Name: Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT).
    Date and Times: August 23, 2011, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; August 24, 
2011, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
    Place: Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center, 3800 
Reservoir Road, NW., Washington, DC 20057.
    Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
    Purpose: Under the authority of 42 U.S.C. 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.
    Agenda: The Committee meeting will convene at 1 p.m. The 
Committee will hear reports from two ACOT Work Groups: Declining 
Rates of Donation/Geographical

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and Other Variations in Organ Distribution and the Alignment of the 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Regulatory Requirements 
with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the 
Health Resources and Services Administration. ACOT presentations 
will include an update on the Kidney Allocation Policy; financial 
challenges of kidney paired donation; circulatory determination of 
death criteria; organ donation and transplantation alliance; 
vascularized composite allografts; and disease transmission and 
informed consent. Agenda items are subject to change as priorities 
indicate.
    After the presentations and Committee 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. Meeting summary 
notes will be made available on the Department's donation Web site 
at http://www.organdonor.gov/legislation.asp. The draft meeting 
agenda will be available on the Department's donation Web site at 
http://www.organdonor.gov/legislation.asp and at http://www.team-psa.com/dot/spring2011/ACOT.
    Registration can be completed by e-mailing or faxing a 
confirmation of participation to Brittany Carey, with the HRM/
Professional and Scientific Associates (PSA), the logistical support 
contractor for the meeting. Ms. Carey's e-mail address is psa.com">b_carey@team-psa.com and her fax number is (703) 234-1701. Individuals 
without access to the Internet who wish to register may call 
Brittany Carey with HRM/PSA at (703) 889-9033.
    For Further Information Contact: Patricia Stroup, Executive 
Secretary, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 12C-06, Rockville, Maryland 
20857; telephone (301) 443-1127.

    Dated: July 21, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.

[FR Doc. 2011-18935 Filed 7-26-11; 8:45 am]
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