Jennifer Steel
Editor

2014

An Evolving Role Within Transplantation

This book has evolved as part of the 2000 Living Donor Consensus Conference, which recommended that all transplant centers have a living donor advocate “whose only focus is on the best interest of the donor.” In 2007, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) included in their requirements that all transplant centers provide living donors with an advocate. I was appointed to be the independent living donor advocate (ILDA) at our transplant center and since that time have been interested in the development of guidelines to facilitate the best practices of ILDAs to decrease potential harm and bias to living donors and transplant candidates.