[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 24 (Monday, February 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 5815]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2646]


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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 Time: February 28, 2012, 10 am to 4 p.m. Eastern 
Standard Time (EST).
    Place: The meeting will be via audio conference call and Adobe 
Connect Pro.
    Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
    Purpose: 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, 
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 will hear reports from the three ACOT Work 
Groups: Declining Rates of Donation/Geographical and Other 
Variations in Organ Distribution, Alignment of CMS Regulatory 
Requirements with OPTN and HRSA, and Brain Death Determination. ACOT 
presentations will include transplant tourism, and a report of the 
Technical Expert Panel on death determination in Uncontrolled 
Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death (UDCDD). Agenda 
items are subject to change as priorities indicate.
    After presentations and Committee discussions, members of the 
public will have an opportunity to provide comments. Because of the 
Committee's full agenda and 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 posted on the Department's donation Web site at http://www.organdonor.gov/legislation/advisory.html#meetings. The draft 
meeting agenda will be posted on http://www.team-psa.com/ACOT/February2012.
    The public can join the meeting by:
    1. [Audio Portion] Calling the Conference Phone Number (888-790-
3384) and providing the Participant Code (6216514), AND
    2. [Visual Portion] Connecting to the ACOT Adobe Connect Pro 
Meeting using the following URL: https://hrsa.connectsolutions.com/acot-22812/ (copy and paste the link into your browser if it does 
not work directly, and enter as a guest). The conference call leader 
is Patricia A. Stroup.
    Call (301) 443-0437 or send an email to [email protected] if you 
are having trouble connecting to the meeting site. Participants 
should call and connect to the meeting no later than 9:45 a.m. EST 
in order for logistics to be set up. If you have never attended an 
Adobe Pro Connect Meeting, please test your connection using the 
following URL: https://hrsa.connectsolutions.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm. For a quick overview, please access: 
http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview.
    Those planning on attending this conference call should register 
by contacting Brittany Carey, the Logistical Coordinator, at 
[email protected] (or by telephone at (703) 889-9033) before the 
registration deadline of February 24, 2012.
    Public Comment: It is preferred that persons interested in 
providing an oral presentation submit a written request, along with 
a copy of their presentation to: Passy Tongele, Division of 
Transplantation, Healthcare Systems Bureau (HSB), Health Resources 
and Services Administration (HRSA), Room 12C-06, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, Maryland 20857. Requests and presentations also may be 
emailed to [email protected]. Requests should contain the name, 
address, telephone number, email address, and any business or 
professional affiliation of the person desiring to make an oral 
presentation. Groups having similar interests are requested to 
combine their comments and present them through a single 
representative.
    Persons may also request to speak at the time of the public 
comment period. Public participation and ability to comment may be 
limited as time permits.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Stroup, Executive Secretary, 
ACOT, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 12C-06, Rockville, Maryland 
20857; telephone (301) 443-1127.

    Dated: January 31, 2012.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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