Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Seth Karp, MD, was in Washington, DC, this week to testify before a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on national organ donation system reform. The hearing was a one-year check-in on the implementation of the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act to maintain a national registry for organ matching. As he has done in the past, Karp, H. William Scott Jr. Professor, chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences and former director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, provided a compelling voice for reform on behalf of patients.
