American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) Back to top
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is dedicated to meeting the needs of its 65,000 members who care for acutely and critically ill patients and their families. AACN provides practice and educational resources as well as professional support for the members and is guided by its mission statement: Building on decades of clinical excellence, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses provides and inspires leadership to establish work and care environments that are respectful, healing and humane. AACN is dedicated to creating a healthcare system driven by the needs of patients and families where critical care nurses make their optimal contribution.
http://www.aacn.org/

American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) Back to top
The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) is a scientific, not-for-profit, peer group organization founded in 1976. Its mission is to facilitate the provision of high quality transplantable human tissue in quantities sufficient to meet national needs. The Association publishes standards to help ensure that the conduct of tissue banking meets acceptable norms of technical and ethical performance, and provides technical information that describes procedures to foster reasonable and responsible approaches to recovery, processing, preservation, and distribution of transplantable tissue. Specifics include: Screening for HIV and hepatitis, donor selection criteria, required testing, record-keeping, maintenance of asepsis, labeling, and storage. AATB also carries out programs of inspection and accreditation of tissue banking organizations and certification of tissue bank personnel, to ensure that tissue banking activities are being performed in a professional manner consistent with the standards of the Association. In its efforts to help maintain tissue banking at the highest level of quality, AATB maintains close liaison with officials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, engaging in an on-going program of information exchange. To this end, FDA has provided informal monitoring of various AATB programs.
http://www.aatb.org

American Operating Room Nurses (AORN) Back to top
AORN is the professional organization of perioperative registered nurses that supports registered nurses in achieving optimal outcomes for patients undergoing operative and other invasive procedures. AORN is the global leader in promoting excellence in perioperative nursing practice
http://www.aorn.org

Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO)
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The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) is a private, nonprofit organization recognized as a national representative of organ procurement organizations (OPOs). AOPO is a professional organization dedicated to the special concerns of OPOs.
http://www.aopo.org/aopo/

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER),
Food and Drug Administration Back to top
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) currently regulates (under 21 CFR Part 1270) human tissue intended for transplantation that is recovered, processed, stored, or distributed by methods that do not change tissue function or characteristics and that is not currently regulated as a human drug, biological product, or medical device. Examples of such tissues are bone, skin, corneas, ligament and tendon. Part 1270 requires tissue establishments to screen and test donors, to prepare and follow written procedures for the prevention of the spread of communicable disease, and to maintain records. FDA is in the process of revising the regulation of human tissues, cells, and cellular and tissue-based products. The proposed regulatory approach would address a broader scope of products, include more comprehensive requirements to prevent the transmission of communicable disease, and would apply tiered requirements based on the characteristics of such products.
http://www.fda.gov/cber/tiss.htm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Back to top
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the leading federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. CDC, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
http://www.cdc.gov/

Coalition on Donation Back to top
The Coalition on Donation is a not-for-profit alliance of national organizations and local coalitions across the United Sates, dedicated to educating the public about organ and tissue donation. The Coalition has produced national campaigns that have resulted in advertising messages for television, radio and billboards. Its most recent campaigns have been directed toward the Hispanic/Latino and African-American communities.
http://www.shareyourlife.org

Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Back to top
ENA's mission is to provide visionary leadership for emergency nursing and emergency care. members are staff nurses; Emergency Department nurse managers; administrators; clinical nurse specialists; pediatric, trauma, or flight nurses; prehospital coordinators; nurse practitioners; educators; and student nurses.
http://www.ena.org

National Donor Family Council Back to top
The National Donor Family Council of the National Kidney Foundation was founded in 1992 as the "Home for Donor Families." Comprised of donor family members and professionals, the National Donor Family Council supports the needs and expectations of all organ and tissue donor families and assists the health care professionals who work most closely with these families. The Council works collaboratively with all organizations in the transplant, bereavement, and professional communities. Through dedicated service to the families of those who gave the gift of life, the Council provides a strong, unified voice in meeting their needs and providing a safe haven as they learn to live without the ones they love. The National Donor Family Council publishes a quarterly newsletter for donor families, entitled For Those Who Give and Grieve.
http://www.donorfamily.org

National Kidney Foundation Back to top
The National Kidney Foundation, Inc., a major voluntary health organization, seeks to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation.
www.kidney.org

New York Organ Donor Network Back to top
www.nyodn.org

Center for Donation and Transplant Back to top
www.cdtny.org

New York Alliance for Donation (NYAD) Back to top
The New York Alliance for Donation, Inc is a newly formed statewide organization dedicated to increasing public awareness and education about organ and tissue donation. The Alliance will also address the need to improve education for professionals and the evaluation of methods that are intended to impact donation. The Alliance was established through the efforts of not for profit recovery organizations represented on the New York State Task Force to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation. The New York Organ Donor Network, Upstate New York Transplant Services, Inc., Center for Donation and Transplant, Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network, Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Sight Society of Northeastern New York, Lion's Eye Bank for Long Island of North Shore University Hospital, and Rochester Eye and Human Parts Bank are corporate members. These corporate members have committed to establishing a financially stable organization that will continue the work initiated by the Task Force.

The Alliance, headquartered in Albany, will educate policy makers, collaborate with many other statewide organizations, and coordinate activities and events statewide that will increase awareness of the critical importance of organ and tissue donation. The Alliance will be working on projects related to increasing awareness of the New York State Organ and Tissue New York State Organ and Tissue Donor Registry, creating professional education opportunities, and supporting the implementation of the New York State Gift of Life Donor Medal. Funding through grants, corporate giving and opportunities for organizations affiliated with donation and transplantation to participate will also be pursued.
www.alliancefordonation.org