by Sean Fitzpatrick | Dec 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
On Friday, December 12, three Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO) joined in filing suit challenging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Final Rule of November 2020 (Revisions to the Outcome Measure Requirements for Organ Procurement Organizations)....
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
New England Donor Services recently completed the inaugural year of a summer program for medical students attending medical school in the region. The Galen V. Henderson, MD Program was an 8-week immersive experience to raise awareness about the role of organ donation...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
While organ donation after brain death (DBD) is the best-known pathway for donation, it is donation after circulatory death (DCD) that has emerged as one of the most promising ways to make more life-savings-transplants possible. DCD organ donation by New England Donor...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Despite record levels of donation and transplant, faulty federal regulations threaten the closure of organ procurement organizations across the United States. The New Hampshire Bulleting is covering the issue indepth… “We recognize no regulation is ‘perfect,’...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Sep 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Renowned transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender warns on the decision to include for-profit corporations directly into the organ donation system. As a Black transplant surgeon with five decades of experience, I have spent my entire career fighting to improve the...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the policy prescriptions often raised to increase donation in the US is the idea of defaulting all US citizens to being registered organ donors and requiring those who wish not to donate to affirmatively remove themselves as donors. This policy would presume...
