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The Summer 2022 issue leads with the OPTN Board’s landmark vote to eliminate race-based GFR calculations from transplant listing — a major step toward equitable access — alongside the latest data on rising kidney transplant rates among minority and pediatric candidates. Inside: a curated roundup of noteworthy abdominal transplant literature from 2021, two deep-dives on imminent death donation and normothermic ex vivo perfusion, and a program spotlight on Duke University Medical Center’s cardiothoracic transplant program.

The Fall 2022 issue marks the U.S. reaching 1 million organ transplants, recaps the first two years of the acuity-circles allocation policy, and previews the rollout of the UNOS Organ Tracking Service. Inside: research updates on anesthetic choice and reperfusion syndrome, bariatric surgery in transplant candidates, normothermic machine perfusion, and HCC cell salvage; a special topic on intrapulmonary shunting and paradoxical air embolism during liver transplantation; a program spotlight on Saint Louis University Medical Center; and the announcement of SATA’s new Accessibility & Inclusion Committee and the inaugural Seed Grant funding cycle.

The Winter 2021 issue rounds up the latest UNOS policy developments, recaps the SATA Council’s year-end progress — new collaborations, a new Critical Care Medicine Committee, and the SATA-Data Collection Project — and spotlights the Miami Transplant Institute. Inside: research updates on expanded HCC criteria and ex vivo machine perfusion, a Quality & Standards Committee update on published practice-pattern survey work, and a full slate of upcoming regional and national meetings heading into 2022.

The Fall 2021 issue introduces SATA’s new President, Dr. Tetsuro Sakai, and the 2021–2022 Board of Directors who took office August 1, 2021. Inside: a President’s address on SATA’s vision and priorities, a recap of the “Rise of the Machines in Solid Organ Transplantation” webinar, a transplant news roundup, a program spotlight on the University of Virginia Medical Center, featured publications from the transplant literature, and updates from the SATA Council and committees.

The Spring 2021 issue highlights new SATA-affiliated research on the impact of marijuana use in liver transplant recipients, announces the

The Summer 2020 issue features a letter from the President on community and equity, welcomes two new Councilors-at-Large to the executive council, introduces SATA’s new webinar series with an inaugural session on COVID-19, and rounds up the latest transplant news from UNOS.