The system faces questions in the middle of an important event

Kim Uccellini, 42, Manager, Policy and Community Relations, UNOS; 33 years old kidney transplant recipient, Atlanta.

Brian Shepherd, CEO, UNOS, Richmond, Virginia.

Deepali Kumar, MD, president of the American Society of Organ Transplantation; Infectious Diseases Transplant Physician, Transplant Center Ajmera; Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Press release, UNOS.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: “Realizing the Promises of Equity in the Transplant System.”

Health Resources and Services Administration: “Organ Donation Statistics.”

Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN): “Data.”

News release, US Governing Committee on Finance.

Journal of Clinical Medicine: “Recent Advances and Advances in Solid Organ Transplantation.”

Yuri S. Genyk, MD, transplant surgeon, associate director, USC Transplant Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.

Timocene Tanner, MD, PhD, transplant surgeon, chief of transplant surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Kim Lott, 48, twice liver transplant recipient; Director of Regional Communications, Morehouse College of Medicine, Atlanta.

Journal of Medical Economics: “Mean Survival Estimates After Solid Organ Transplantation in the United States and the United Kingdom.”