Goals and Objectives
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Lead the Development of Association Wide Position Statements on Topics in Pediatric Transplant Ethics. Our hope is that these statements can help shape ethical best practices the individual transplant systems served by our members
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Publication of Clinical Ethics cases and other ethics education pieces in the quarterly IPTA Newsletter
Pediatric Priority Statement
Under the guidance of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) Executive Council, the IPTA Ethics Committee was asked to develop a position statement supporting prioritizing pediatric recipients for deceased donor organ allocation. This position statement has been published in the journal Pediatric Transplantation, the official journal of IPTA, on December 5, 2022.