[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57807-57808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-23713]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 October 22,
2010.
ADDRESSES: All nominations should be submitted to the Executive
Secretary, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, Healthcare
Systems Bureau, HRSA, Parklawn Building, Room 12-105, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Federal Express, Airborne, UPS, etc.,
mail delivery should be addressed to 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 e-mail [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, acting through the Administrator,
HRSA, on all aspects of organ procurement, 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.
[[Page 57808]]
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 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 2011.
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 e-mail address at which the
nominator can be contacted.
The Department of Health and Human Services has special interest in
assuring that women, minority groups, and the physically disabled are
adequately represented on advisory committees; and therefore, extends
particular encouragement to nominations for appropriately qualified
female, minority, or disabled candidates.
Dated: September 15, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-23713 Filed 9-21-10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4165-15-P