According to interviews with more than a dozen people inside the organ-sharing industry, leaders of the Richmond-based United Network for Organ Sharing have pushed out a board member critical of the organization, opened an investigation against a researcher and created an environment hostile toward dissenting opinion.
According to interviews with more than a dozen people inside the organ-sharing industry, leaders of the Richmond-based United Network for Organ Sharing have pushed out a board member critical of the organization, opened an investigation against a researcher and created an environment hostile toward dissenting opinion. UNOS says it hasn’t received reports that the network has retaliated against whistleblowers. It says not all criticism constitutes whistleblowing and that disagreeing with an individual’s position doesn’t necessarily constitute retaliation.
The United Network of Organ Sharing named Maureen McBride, PhD, the new CEO of the organization, according to a press release.McBride has served as the interim CEO of the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) since October 2022, during which UNOS released an action agenda that detailed improvements, such as transparency, accountability, equity, transportation and modernization, needed within the
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