Darren is a Principal Research Scientist with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), having worked in its Research Department for the past 14 years. He earned a master’s degree in statistics from North Carolina State University and has over 20 years of experience as an applied statistician, having applied his craft in several different fields, including aerospace, financial services, and of course now in healthcare. During his time with UNOS, he has worked extensively with OPTN committees to inform policy development, and his current research interests include optimizing deceased donor kidney utilization; identifying ways to improve the organ allocation system; measuring equity in allocation; and applying behavioral science to aid transplant clinician decision-making as a UNOS Labs principal investigator. Mr. Stewart is the author of several publications in transplant journals, and he has presented findings from numerous studies at transplant conferences. He hails from central Connecticut and now works out of a home office in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Offer Acceptance Practices: An Exploration of the Current & Future Landscape
Thursday, June 23, 2022, at 3:00pm
To effectively evaluate the extent and impact of variability of organ acceptance practices throughout the US, it’s important to understand the new transplant center metrics and their intended goal to increase operational efficiencies in organ allocation. The course aims to increase knowledge and awareness surrounding organ offer acceptance practices through an in-depth review of the updated organ offer filters and the recently approved MPSC transplant metric based on organ offer acceptance ratio.