New Liver Allocation Policy: Flawed Moral and Empirical Foundations

Prabhakar Baliga¹, Robert M Sade¹

• ¹Prabhakar Baliga, M.D., holds the Fitts-Raja Endowed Chair of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery of the Medical University of South Carolina. He has served as Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery, Medical Director of the Transplant Center, and Director of the Kidney Transplant Program of MUSC. He has served on the Boards of the South Carolina Organ Procurement Agency and on the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network. Robert M. Sade, M.D., is Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Director of the Institute of Human Values in Health Care, and Director of the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute (Clinical and Translational Science Award) Clinical Research Ethics Core at the Medical University of South Carolina. He served as Medical Director of LifePoint, South Carolina's Organ Procurement Organization for 14 years. He is also a former chair of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Ethics Committee, the Society of Thoracic Surgeon's Standards and Ethics Committee, and the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.