United Network for Organ Sharing: Organ Donation and Transplantation

Minority Affairs Committee

The Minority Affairs Committee identifies and considers aspects of organ procurement, allocation, and transplantation with the potential to impact minority populations in particular. The committee provides input and recommendations regarding ongoing efforts of other OPTN/UNOS Committees and the Board of Directors to ensure that issues and special needs of minority populations are considered and addressed.


Chair Dr. Henry B Randall Baylor University Medical Center henryran@baylorhealth.edu	Vice Chairman Dr. Silas P Norman University of Michigan Medical Center spnorman@umich.edu; dpryce@umich.edu	Liaison Ms. Deanna L Parker UNOS parkerdl@unos.org

Members	Organization
Dr. L. Ebony Boulware	General Public
Mr. Kenny Boyd	Washington Regional Transplant Community
Ms. Remonia A Chapman	Gift of Life Michigan
Dr. Ioana Dumitru	The Nebraska Medical Center
Dr. Pang-Yen Fan	University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
Mr. Mesmin Germain	Division of Transplantation, HHS
Dr. Oscar H Grandas	University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville
Ms. Camille Hill-Blue	General Health Pharm Ins
Mr. Bobby A Howard	LifeLink of Georgia
Dr. Eddie Island	Broward General Medical Center
Dr. David G Jacobs	Carolinas Medical Center
Mr. AJ Johnson	LifeCenter Northwest Organ Donation Network
Dr. Ronald H Kerman	Histocompatibility and Immune Evaluation Laboratory at UT Houston
Mr. Richard Laeng	Division of Transplantation, HHS
Dr. Sayeed K Malek	Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mr. Joselito Nuqui	Center for Donation and Transplant
Ms. Beth Plahn	Avera McKennan Hospital
Ms. Rosaline Rhoden	LifeLink of Georgia
Ms. Terri Rihner	Ochsner Foundation Hospital
Mr. R. Kelvin Satcher	Nevada Donor Network
Dr. M. Christina Smith	University Medical Center, Univ of Arizona
Ms. Rachel C Thomas	Rush University Medical Center
Ms. Roberta L Wager	General Health Pharm Ins
Dr. Carlton J Young	University of Alabama Hospital

Meeting Summaries
March 2009

Reports to the Board of Directors*
September 2007
June 2007

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*Note: Meeting summaries are prepared for each meeting of the full committee. Reports to the board are prepared for specific meetings of the board of directors. They contain documentation of all committee activity since the previous report to the board and also will include any recommendations that the board is requested to consider at that meeting. Certain recommendations may have been accepted, declined, or modified by the Board of Directors; therefore, please review the Executive Summaries of the board of directors' meetings to confirm the status of all committee proposals.

Meeting summaries and reports to the board remain posted here for the previous two calendar years. For older documents, please contact the UNOS staff liaison listed above. Additionally, report exhibits may be requested from the liaison as well.