Life-Saving Decisions: Equity and Organ Transplants
March 29, 4 p.m, Jepson Hall, Room 118
Walter K. Graham
Executive Director, President and CEO of the UNOS Foundation
 Questions found at the intersection of medicine and morality are some of our most vexing
ones--for families, leaders and society as a whole. Few organizations grapple
more intimately with how the application of growing medical
knowledge can pose fundamental moral dilemmas than does UNOS -- the
Richmond-based United Network for Organ Sharing. UNOS is the
national clearinghouse for organ donations and allocation. Walter K.
Graham is Executive Director, President and CEO of the UNOS
Foundation. In that role he oversees the core mission of the
organization, which is to increase and ensure the effectiveness,
efficiency and equity of organ sharing in the national system of
organ allocation and increase the supply of donated organs available
for transplantation.
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
(OPTN) is the
unified transplant network established by the United States Congress
in 1984 to be operated by a
private, non-profit organization under federal contract. UNOS was
awarded the first contract in 1986 and has continued to
administer the OPTN under contract with the Health Resources and
Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services for more than 16 years and four successive contract
renewals.
More about UNOS:
History of
Transplants and UNOS Timeline
Fact Sheets
White Papers
on Bioethics
This presentation is funded by the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation.
It will be followed by a reception that is open to all attendees.
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