[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28607-28608]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-11634]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation; Request for
Nominations for Voting Members
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is
requesting nominations to fill vacancies on the Advisory Committee on
Organ Transplantation (ACOT). The ACOT was established by the Amended
Final Rule of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)
(42 CFR part 121) and, in accordance with Public Law 92-463, was
chartered on September 1, 2000.
DATES: The agency must receive nominations on or before June 11, 2012.
ADDRESSES: All nominations should be submitted to the Executive
Secretary, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, Healthcare
Systems Bureau, HRSA, Parklawn Building, Room 12C-06, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Federal Express, Airborne, UPS, etc.,
should be addressed to the Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on
Organ Transplantation, Healthcare Systems Bureau, HRSA, at the above
address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia A. Stroup, M.B.A., M.P.A.,
Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, at
(301) 443-1127 or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As provided by 42 CFR 121.12, the Secretary
established the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation. The
Committee is governed by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C.
Appendix 2), which sets forth standards for the formation and use of
advisory committees.
The ACOT advises the Secretary on all aspects of organ procurement,
allocation, and transplantation, and on other such matters that the
Secretary determines. One of its principal functions is to advise the
Secretary on Federal efforts to maximize the number of deceased donor
organs made available for transplantation and to support the safety of
living organ donation.
The ACOT consists of up to 25 members, who are Special Government
Employees, and 5 ex-officio, non-voting members. Members and the Chair
shall be appointed by the Secretary from individuals knowledgeable in
such fields as deceased and living organ donation, health care public
policy, transplantation medicine and surgery, critical care medicine
and other medical
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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, living organ donors, and family members of deceased and
living organ donors. Members shall not serve while they are also
serving on the OPTN Board of Directors. To the extent practicable,
Committee members should represent the minority, gender and geographic
diversity of transplant candidates, transplant recipients, organ donors
and family members served by the OPTN. The ex-officio, non-voting
members shall include the Directors of the National Institutes of
Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality; the Administrator of the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and the Commissioner of the Food
and Drug Administration--or their designees.
Specifically, HRSA is requesting nominations for voting members of
the ACOT representing: Health care public policy; transplantation
medicine and surgery, including pediatric and heart/lung
transplantation; critical care medicine; nursing; epidemiology and
applied statistics; immunology; law and bioethics; behavioral sciences;
economics and econometrics; organ procurement organizations; transplant
candidates/recipients; transplant/donor family members; and living
donors. Nominees will be invited to serve a 4-year term beginning after
January 2013.
HHS will consider nominations of all qualified individuals with a
view to ensuring that the Advisory Committee includes the areas of
subject matter expertise noted above. Individuals may nominate
themselves or other individuals, and professional associations and
organizations may nominate one or more qualified persons for membership
on the ACOT. Nominations shall state that the nominee is willing to
serve as a member of the ACOT and appears to have no conflict of
interest that would preclude the ACOT membership. Potential candidates
will be asked to provide detailed information concerning financial
interests, consultancies, research grants, and/or contracts that might
be affected by recommendations of the Committee to permit evaluation of
possible sources of conflicts of interest.
A nomination package should include the following information for
each nominee: (1) A letter of nomination stating the name, affiliation,
and contact information for the nominee, the basis for the nomination
(i.e., what specific attributes, perspectives, and/or skills does the
individual possess that would benefit the workings of ACOT), and the
nominee's field(s) of expertise; (2) a biographical sketch of the
nominee and a copy of his/her curriculum vitae; and (3) the name,
address, daytime telephone number, and email address at which the
nominator can be contacted.
The Department of Health and Human Services has special interest in
assuring that advisory committees benefit from a broad and diverse
range of perspectives. In support of that interest, we encourage
nominations of all qualified candidates, and extend particular
encouragement to nominations of women, racial and ethnic minorities,
and those with disabilities.
Dated: May 9, 2012.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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