1. Minority Affairs Committee Fall 2014

2.  Patient resource promoting early referral for transplant evaluation  Collaborated with Patient Affairs Committee  Based on research from the MAC Early Referral Guidance Document  Targeted for primary care providers, internists, nephrologists and dialysis centers Patients Guide to Kidney Transplant Referral

3.  Black and male living kidney donors are at a higher risk than white and female living kidney donors to develop ESRD following kidney donation.  Vulnerable populations need to know the risk of living donation  Committee is developing guidance on informed consent for living donors at greater risk Informed Consent for Living Donors-Vulnerable Populations

4. Patient Affairs Chair Meelie Debroy, MD meelie.debroy@rwjuh.edu UNOS Staff Liaison Freda Wilkins Freda.wilkins@unos.org Questions?