Despite fourteen consecutive years of record US growth in deceased organ donation and world leading transplant rates, there is nonetheless a cottage industry of critics seeking to distort these gains to paint a picture of a US system that never increases donation and never improves. Of course, the statistic don’t lie, nor do the stories of the tens of thousands of patients being transplanted each year. This article appearing in Boston University’s TODAY magazine does an excellent job of setting the record straight – and well it should – as it was penned by two NEDS leaders who are also BU alums: President and CEO Alexandra Glazier (BU LAW’96, SPH’97)) and Chief Legal Officer Lisa Paolillo (BU LAW’94).
“One would be hard-pressed to find another area of the US health system that improves, grows, and innovates at the same pace as community-based nonprofit Organ Procurement Organizations.”
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