Membership & Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) Spring 2014
Recent Public Comment Proposals
Proposed Patient Notification of Functional Inactivity Due to Lack of Transplant Activity
March 2014 – MPSC review of public comment & responses
Post public comment amendment
Board Review – June 2014
Implementation Date – September 1, 2014, if approved
Recent Public Comment Proposals
Proposal to Revise the Current Method for Flagging for Transplant Program Post-transplant Performance Reviews
March 2014 – MPSC review of public comment & responses
Board Review – June 2014
Implementation Date – January 1, 2015, if approved
Ongoing Committee Initiatives
Review of bylaw requirements/qualifications for primary surgeons and physicians
Procurement requirements Defining “foreign equivalency” Defining “working knowledge” and “currency”
Revisit the definition of a member transplant hospital
Codified vs operational understanding Identifying impacts if kept as is or if revised
New Committee Initiatives
OPTN Quality Assurance and Process Improvement (QAPI) requirement
Language approved March 2014
Fall 2014 public comment
Questions?
Carl Berg, MD Committee Chair
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Name Region # Representative email
Sally Aungier Committee Liaison
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