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President
John Magee
Professor of Surgery, Section of Transplantation
Univ of Michigan Med Ctr
Ann Arbor, MI
End Term Date June 30, 2026
Vice President
Shelley Hall
Chief, Transplant Cardiology, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Advanced Heart Failure
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, TX
End Term Date June 30, 2026
Vice President for Patient/Donor Affairs
William Ryan
President and Chief Executive Officer
General Public Region 10
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2026
Secretary
Justin Wilkerson
Lieutenant Colonel, Illinois Army National Guard
General Public Region 7
Peoria, IL
End Term Date June 30, 2026
Treasurer
Alan Reed
Professor & Chief, Transplant and HPB Surgery; Director, Organ Transplant Center
The University of Iowa Hospitals
Iowa City, IA
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 1 Councillor
Nahel Elias
Surgical Director, Renal Transplantation; Medical Director for Quality, Transplant Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 2 Councillor
Kenneth Chavin
Director of Abdominal Organ Transplant
Temple Univ Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 3 Councillor
Ari Cohen
Director, Transplant Institute
Ochsner Foundation Hospital
New Orleans, LA
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 4 Councillor
Ryan Davies
Professor, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Children's Med Ctr of Dallas
Dallas, TX
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 5 Councillor
Andrew Courtwright
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor of Phil
Univ of Utah Medical Center
Salt Lake City, UT
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 6 Councillor
Gina-Marie Barletta
Medical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 7 Councillor
Reynold Lopez-Soler
Professor of Surgery, Section of Intra-Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery
Loyola Univ Med Center
Maywood, IL
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 8 Councillor
Mark Wakefield
Professor of Surgery/Urology
Univ of Missouri Hosp and Clinic
Columbia, MO
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 9 Councillor
Meelie DebRoy
Chief of Kidney Transplantation
Westchester Medical Center
Valhalla, NY
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 10 Councillor
Austin Schenk
Quality and Patient Safety Officer, Comprehensive Transplant Center; Associate Professor of Surgery,
Ohio State Univ Med Ctr
Atlanta, GA
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Region 11 Councillor
Vincent Casingal
Chief, Division of Abdominal Transplant; Surgical Director, Adult and Pediatric Kidney Transplant
Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, NC
End Term Date June 30, 2027
Histocompatibility Representative
Cathi Murphey
Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory
Southwest Immunodiagnostics
San Antonio, TX
End Term Date June 30, 2028
Medical/Scientific Organization Representative
Annette Needham
Transplant Quality Manager
UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, CA
End Term Date June 30, 2028
At Large
George Bayliss
Medical Director, Kidney Transplantation, Division of Organ Transplantation
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, RI
End Term Date June 30, 2027
At Large
Jen Benson
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
General Public Region 1
Wilton, CT
End Term Date June 30, 2028
At Large
James Cason
General Public Region 3
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2028
At Large
Samantha Endicott
Senior Director, Organ Optimization, New England Donor Services
New England Organ Bank
Waltham, MA
End Term Date June 30, 2028
At Large
Gitthaline Gagne
General Public Region 2
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2029
At Large
Joshua Gossett
Director, Pediatric Transplant Center
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hosp
Palo Alto, CA
End Term Date June 30, 2027
At Large
John Hodges
Living Unrelated Kidney Donor; Moderator, Living Donors Online
General Public Region 1
Cambridge, MA
End Term Date June 30, 2029
At Large
Mary Homan
General Public Region 7
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2029
At Large
Darren Lahrman
Executive Director
LifeLink of Florida
Tampa, FL
End Term Date June 30, 2028
At Large
Kevin Lee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mid-America Transplant Svcs
St. Louis, MO
End Term Date June 30, 2027
At Large
Joseph Magliocca
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics; Executive Medical Director, Vanderbilt Transplant Center
Vanderbilt Univ Med Ctr
Nashville, TN
End Term Date June 30, 2028
At Large
Jerold Mande
General Public Region 2
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2028
At Large
Dan Meyer
Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, TX
End Term Date June 30, 2027
At Large
Peter Nicastro
General Public Region 8
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2029
At Large
Cody Reynolds
General Public Region 4
Tishomingo, OK
End Term Date June 30, 2029
At Large
John Sperzel, III
Chief Executive Officer
General Public Region 1
North Attleborough, MA
End Term Date June 30, 2028
At Large
Kymberly Watt
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic Hospital Minnesota
Rochester, MN
End Term Date June 30, 2028
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Not finding what you are looking for? Contact us at member.questions@unos.org or (804) 782-4800. We maintain an archive of historical OPTN documents.
- OPTN Public Comment to HRSA on the Information Collection Request Process Data for Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, OMB No. 0906-xxxx-New (12/13/2024)
- OPTN Public Comment to HHS Proposed Rule Organ Procurement and Transplantation: Implementation of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act (10/2/2024)
- OPTN Public Comment to CMS Alternative Payment Model Updates and the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model (7/16/2024)
- OPTN Board of Directors Questions to Health Resources and Services Administration Contracting Office (2/27/2024)
- OPTN Executive Committee Letter to Suma Nair, Associate Administrator, Health Systems Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration (2/15/2024)
- OPTN Letter to HRSA on the Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability (ACBTSA) HOPE Act Recommendations (2/24/2023)
- OPTN Comment to the Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability (ACBTSA) (11/8/2022)
- Revised Systems of Records Notice (SORN) for System No. 09-15-0055 (8/26/2022)
- OPTN Public Comment to CMS Request for Information to update CLIA fees (8/19/2022)
- OPTN letter to National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (4/27/2022)
- HHS Public Health Service Request for Information – Assessing Organ Donors and Recipients (3/4/2022)
- HHS CMS Transplant Health and Safety Request for Information (2/1/2022)
- HHS HRSA HOPE Act Recommendation (10/29/2021)
- HHS CMS OPO Medicare Conditions for Coverage Public Comment (3/4/2021)
- HHS HRSA Doc. Living Donor Expense Reimbursement (4/27/2020)
- HHS CMS OPO Medicare Conditions for Coverage Public (2/20/2020)
- HHS HRSA Removing Financial Disincentives to Living Donation Public Comment (2/18/2020)
- HHS CMS Memo QSO-19-11 Transplant Program Survey Activity – Independent Living Donor Advocate (8/5/2019)
- CMS Proposed Revisions to OPO Medicare Conditions for Coverage (9/17/2019)