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The purpose of the Advisory Council is to recommend policies to Gift of Hope’s Board of Directors regarding:

• Organ procurement
• Effective agreements with hospitals in Gift of Hope’s service area
• Systematic efforts, including professional education, to increase donation
• Arrangements for organ recovery and preservation, and related quality standards, that are consistent with standards adopted by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
• Appropriate tissue typing of organs
• Organ allocation that is consistent with OPTN rules and requirements
• Transportation of organs to transplant hospitals
• Coordination of activities with transplant hospitals in the Corporation’s service area
• Participation in the OPTN
• Cooperative arrangements with tissue banks for the retrieval, processing, preservation, storage, and distribution of donated tissues
• Annual evaluation of Gift of Hope’s effectiveness recovering organs for transplant
• Assistance to hospitals in establishing and implementing protocols for routine referral of potential donors

• Hospital administrators or their representatives as intensive care or emergency room personnel, and representatives of tissue banks and voluntary health organizations
• Public representatives who are residents of Gift of Hope’s donation service area
• A physician with knowledge, experience or skill in the field of histocompatibility, or an individual with a doctorate degree in a biological science with knowledge, experience or skill in the field of histocompatibility
• A neurosurgeon or other physician with knowledge or skills in the neurosciences
• An individual who is a family member of an organ donor
• Transplant surgeons representing each transplant center in Gift of Hope’s donation service area

Following are Gift of Hope’s Advisory Council members: