The last 25 years have seen amazing progress in transplantation--from the development of techniques for immunosuppression to methods for organ removal and preservation. Our distinguished authors focus on these developments and discuss how the momentum seen during the last quarter century can be accelerated.

http://ccn.aacnjournals.org Kevin J. O’Connor is the director of organ donation services for the New England Organ Bank in Newton, Mass, and codirector of the Organ Transplantation Breakthrough Collaborative. Kenneth E. Wood is a professor of medicine and anesthesiology, Department of Medicine, and director of Critical Care Medicine/Respiratory Care and the Trauma and Life Support Center at the...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 609 I. BACKGROUND ..................................................................................... 611 A. Organ Transplantation in the United States ................................ 611 B. The HOPE Act ............................................................................. 615...