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Casey Humphries
Casey Humphries, M.S. is the logistical products service line leader at United Network for Organ Sharing - or UNOS - the non-profit leading the U.S. organ donation and transplantation system. In this position, she is the product owner for the UNOS Organ Tracking Service and spearheads other logistics-related projects and initiatives. Prior to this, she served as the program manager for UNOS Labs for three and a half years, developing technology-based tools and products to support the transplant community system-wide. Before joining UNOS, Humphries was a logistics coordinator at WestRock and held various roles at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering, alongside a consultant role at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Langley facility managing the restructuring of their college outreach program. Humphries obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University with an emphasis on biomechanics and physiology.
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Humphries cites a case where an organ, sent with a courier, had only one hour to make a flight—and the tracker showed it heading in the wrong direction from the airport. It turned out the courier had been dispatched for another pickup, but alerted to the problem, the OPO was able to intervene and the organ made the flight. “When minutes matter,” says Humphries, “the tracker saves a lot of time.”
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“Transplant is 24 hours a day, but cargo offices may not be,” says Casey Humphries, logistics service line leader for UNOS Solutions, which develops tools, products and custom analytics for transplant hospitals, OPOs, researchers and other organizations involved with transplant.
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Field Notes Ep. 32 | Decreasing Organ Transportation Times with with Casey Humphries
Making organs more accessible and available to patients in need is critical to successful transplants. Casey Humphries, Logistical Products Service Line Leader for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), joins Field Notes to discuss how the non-profit network was able to help improve organ tracking, shipment, and transplantation through ground-breaking findings on cold ischemic time and UNOS-developed travel applications for organs.
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This cross-sectional study examines the association between transit time and cold ischemic time for adult, deceased kidney transplant donors.
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United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) (https://unos.org)
Logistical Products Service Line Leader
started Jan 2022 -
United Network for Organ Sharing (http://www.unos.org)
UNOS Labs Program Manager
Aug 2018 – Feb 2022