Decision Makers

Please take the time to write to Secretary Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services or his staff, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, your local Organ Procurement Organization, and the United Network for Organ Sharing officials.

Kathleen Sebelius
U.S. Dep’t of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Ave SW,
Room 639-G
Washington, DC 20201

Mrs. Sebelius’s organ transplant policy staff is headed by
Camille Haney
camille.haney@hhs.gov.
(202) 690-6638

Director of the Division of Transplantation
Health Resources and Services Administration
Ms. Joyce Somsak
Room 11A-33
Parklawn Building
500 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
jsomsak@hrsa.gov
(202) 224-3344

Harry Reid, U.S. Senator from Nevada,
Senate Majority Leader
528 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone (202) 224-4774
reid.senate.gov/contact/email_form.cfm

The information and contacts for the regional Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) that serves your area can be found at the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations website: www.aopo.org.

Please contact your regional OPO and this website to ask their position on Presumed Consent, and to share your opinion with them.

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) officials

Chairman of UNOS Ethics Committee
Michael E, Shapiro, MD, FACS
MShapiro@humed.com

UNOS Patient Affairs Committee
Mr. David Burgio
swimmr1@windstream.net

UNOS Organ Availability Committee
Dr. Lisa S Florence
Swedish Medical Center
lisa.florence@swedish.org

Our Mission

The mission of the Presumed Consent Foundation is to make life-saving and life-enhancing organ transplantation available to those in need. Along with legislators, healthcare professionals, and citizens, we will work to create a highly effective system that eliminates the organ donation crisis we are currently experiencing in the United States.

We will strive to educate the public about the facts, misconceptions, and myths pertaining to our current system of organ donation, advocate for changing this system to Presumed Consent with the right to opt-out, and offer ongoing programs of donor awareness education.