Amanda W. Rowe

TL;DR: Institutional Affiliations Chair Costanzo MR: Midwest Heart Foundation, Lombard Illinois, USA Task Force 1 Dipchand A: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Ontario, Canada; Starling R: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Starlings R: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,USA; Chan M: university of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ; Desai S: Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

TL;DR: Institutional Affiliations Co-chairs Feldman D: Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Georgia Institute of Technology and Morehouse School of Medicine, and Pamboukian SV: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, Teuteberg JJ:University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Task force chairs.

TL;DR: The Scientific Council on Mechanical Circulatory Support of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation has established an international database to generate critical data to advance knowledge about the effectiveness of mechanical circulatory support device therapy for one of the most difficult and costly contemporary medical problems, the malignant syndrome of advanced heart failure.

TL;DR: Progress made toward reaching the 2002–2003 goals of increasing worldwide heart and lung transplant reporting; initiation of the MCSD Database; and facilitation of access to data for clinical inquiries and research projects are related.

TL;DR: Survey of members of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation found the majority favors indirect over direct compensation as a way of increasing organ donation, and the majority also favors the wishes of the individual over the family in determining donor status.