Fifty-Fifth ACBTSA Meeting: December 1, 2021

December 1, 2021

Agenda

TIME AGENDA ITEM SPEAKER
11:00am – 11:05am Welcome Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD
Committee Chair
11:05am – 11:08am Roll Call James Berger
Designated Federal Officer
11:08am – 11:10am Call to Order James Berger
11:10am – 11:15am Welcome Remarks from the Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, MD
ADM, USPHS
Assistant Secretary for Health
11:15am – 11:25am Purpose of the Meeting Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD
Presentations and Committee Business
11:25am – 11:35am    Introduction Sridhar V. Basavaraju, MD
Director, CDC Office of Blood, Organ and Other Tissue Safety
11:35am – 12:00pm OPTN Data on Organ Transplantation in the <10 Population David Klassen, MD
Chief Medical Officer
United Network for Organ Sharing
12:00pm – 12:10pm Description of Comments Received to DTAC Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
12:10pm – 12:40pm CDC Data on Proposed Question Rebecca Free, MD, MPH
Medical Officer, CDC's Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety
12:40pm – 1:05pm Description of DTAC meeting, Proposed Policy Changes, and Proposed Timeline Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH
1:05pm – 1:40pm Discussion on Pediatric Recommendation & Vote Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD
1:40pm – 1:55pm Summary of Meeting Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD
James Berger
1:55pm – 2:00pm Wrap-up and Adjournment Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD
James Berger

The fifty-fifth ACBTSA meeting was held on December 1, 2021.

During this meeting, the committee discussed a recommendation to modify the PHS Guidelines pertaining to blood testing requirements for pediatric organ transplantation.

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