United Network for Organ Sharing: Organ Donation and Transplantation

Histo Committee

The Histocompatibility Committee considers issues relating to donor and recipient histocompatibility, organ allocation, histocompatibility testing, and histocompatibility laboratory and personnel qualifications. The goal of the committee's work is to promote patient safety, good transplant outcomes, and best use of organs.

Read guidelines from the Histocompatibility Committee regarding practices for laboratories supporting clinical transplantation now


Chair Dr. J. Michael Cecka University of California at Los Angeles, Immunogenetics Center mcecka@ucla.edu	Vice Chairman Dr. Nancy L Reinsmoen Cedars-Sinai Transplantation and Immunogenetics Laboratory nancy.reinsmoen@cshs.org	Liaison Ms. Lori A Gore UNOS gorela@unos.org

Members	Organization
Dr. Lee Ann Baxter-Lowe	UCSF Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory
Dr. James S Bowman	Division of Transplantation, HHS
Ms. Dawn C Brim	Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network
Dr. A. Bradley Eisenbrey	Gift of Life Michigan - Histocompatibility Laboratory
Dr. Steven S Geier	LABS, Inc.
Ms. Charlene Hubbell	SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse Histocompatibility Laboratory
Dr. Douglas S Keith	University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
Mr. Bradley T Kornfeld	General Public
Dr. Bernard F Kozlovsky	Division of Transplantation, HHS
Dr. David H Maurer	Clinical Histocompatibility Laboratory at University of Minnesota Med Ctr
Dr. Jerry L Morrisey	Southwest Immunodiagnostics
Dr. Elizabeth Ortiz-Rios	Division of Transplantation, HHS
Dr. John L Schmitz	Histocompatibility Laboratory at UNC Hospitals
Dr. Karen A Sullivan	Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Lab / Tulane Univ School of Medicine
Mr. Dean Sylvaria	Tissue Typing Laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. William W Ward	Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Ms. Paula J Wetzsteon	Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation at OHSU

Meeting Summaries
July 2009
July 2007
May 2007
February 2007

Reports to the Board of Directors*
November 2009
September 2007

Reference Documents
Interpretation of HLA Typing Results for Entry into UNet(sm)

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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.