President Gold highlighted UNMC's role in federal infectious-disease responses, the 10th anniversary of its CAR T cell therapy program and the system's 10,000th solid-organ transplant, crediting clinical leaders and transplant teams for patient care and national-level response capacity.

The proposed policy requires OPOs to document acknowledgment from transplant programs that accepted an organ if an unplanned DCD pause occurred; presenters said notification to centers could also occur during the organ offer process.