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Science in Donation and Transplant (SID&T) is a non-profit devoted to the science-driven advancement of the world-leading United States organ donation and transplantation system, with the goal of increasing the number of lives saved and honored through donor’s altruistic gifts of life.
Science in Donation and Transplant is devoted to supporting, educating, and advocating on behalf of the interests of members of the donation and transplant communities which includes:
Donors
Recipients
Patients on the national waiting list
Donor families
Volunteers
Organ Procurement Organizations and their staffs
Transplant Centers and their surgeons and staffs
Scientists, academics and government leaders whose research and collaboration are responsible for more than one million life-giving transplants over the past 40 years.
We believe as with all healthcare, the donation and transplantation system and its constituents benefit from continuing reform and modernization.
We believe donors and transplant recipients deserve a well-aligned, science-based system.
We advocate constructive reform in concert with leading medical practitioners for enhanced alignment among organ procurement organizations and transplant centers.
We believe all stakeholders are best served by complete transparency in the process, from organ procurement to transplant, using verifiable, publicly available metrics.
We believe scientifically based clinical practices, policy, and performance monitoring, free from financial incentives aimed at privatization and monetization and political bias in the procurement and transplant process will save the lives of tens of thousands more Americans each year.
Our goal is to ensure the metrics and measures used to credential, license, designate and certify donation and transplant organizations are grounded in science and protected from political whim and private financial influence.
“When Congress enacted the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984, the creators of the national transplant system “determined early on that the system must be led by non-profit interests, dedicated only to the needs of patients and with no concern for shareholders, market shares or profits.”