Membership and Professional Standards Committee

1. Membership and Professional Standards Committee Fall 2017

2. Bylaws Awaiting Implementation • Joint Society Working Group Key Personnel Bylaws changes • Updating Primary Kidney Transplant Physician Requirements • Changes to Transplant Program Key Personnel Procurement Requirements • Addressing the Term “Foreign Equivalent” in OPTN/UNOS Bylaws • Sponsored by MPSC, collaborated with JSWG • Implementation- September 1, 2017 • Applications received on or after September 1, 2017, will be reviewed relative to these new requirements

3. Bylaws Awaiting Implementation • Membership Requirements for Intestine Transplant Programs • Creates intestine program key personnel requirements in Bylaws • Will require ALL intestine programs to reapply, meet new requirements

4. Bylaws Awaiting Implementation • Membership Requirements for VCA Transplant Programs • Establishes more detailed and rigorous membership requirements for VCA programs • Will require ALL VCA programs to reapply, meet new requirements

5. Bylaws Awaiting Implementation • Histocompatibility Bylaws Rewrite Phase II • To be implemented - “general supervisor” as histo lab key personnel • OPTN Bylaws Appendices C.3; C.4; C.4.2; C.5.A; C.5.A.2; C.5.A.3; C.5.B; C.6.B • Remaining changes from proposal implemented Sept. 1, 2015 • ALL histo labs must designate a general supervisor

6. New Bylaws- What to Generally Expect Intestine Program Bylaws Histocompatibility Lab General Supervisor Bylaws VCA Membership Bylaws • Staggered implementation • General Timeline • 30 day notice that applications will be sent out to current programs • 30 days later – send applications and opt out forms • Set period for members to submit applications • Set period to process (staff) & review (ad hoc MPSC subcommittee) applications • MPSC approval at meeting = Bylaws implementation date • Notice will be sent ~30 days prior to implementation

7. Bylaws Awaiting Implementation • Updating OPTN Definition of Transplant Hospital • Awaiting programming changes - UNOS membership database • Requires OMB approval of application forms • More thoroughly defines “transplant hospital,” requires collection of additional information from ALL transplant hospitals • May also include: • Exception requests to be deliberated by MPSC • Separating single transplant hospital into multiple transplant hospitals • Combining multiple transplant hospitals into a single transplant hospital

8. Bylaws Awaiting Implementation • Pediatric Training and Experience Bylaws Requirements • Awaiting programming changes - UNOS membership database • Requires OMB approval of application forms • Requires a “pediatric component” for all programs that wish to transplant pediatric patients • Demonstrate that proposed primary pediatric transplant surgeons and physicians: • Meet current key personnel Bylaws requirements • Meet to-be-implemented, pediatric key personnel Bylaws requirements

9. Questions? Jeff Orlowski, MS, CPTC Committee Chair jorlowski@lifeshareok.org Chad Waller Committee Liaison chad.waller@unos.org