Lindsay Smith is the Director of Quality for the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. She graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor’s Degree in biology and nursing from Belmont University. She worked as a transplant and oncology nurse for 6 years before deciding to pursue her master’s degree. She graduated from Vanderbilt University School of nursing in 2013 with a Master’s in Healthcare Leadership. Her passion for quality lead her to the Vanderbilt transplant center in 2013, where she is currently the quality director for the transplant center.
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.