Board of Directors
OPTN letter to National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (April 2022) New
President
Jerry McCauley
Director, Division of Nephrology/Capizzi Professor of Medicine
Thomas Jefferson Univ Hosp
Philadelphia, PA
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Vice President
Dianne LaPointe Rudow
Mount Sinai Med Center
New York, NY
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Vice President for Patient/Donor Affairs
Valinda Jones
Quality Coordinator
General Public Region 4
Missouri City, TX
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Secretary
Linda Cendales
Director, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Treasurer
Bradley Kornfeld
Managing Partner
General Public Region 8
Cherry Hills Village, CO
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Immediate Past President
Matthew Cooper
Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institu
Washington, DC
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Region 1 Councillor
Richard Formica, Jr
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Yale New Haven Hosp
New Haven, CT
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Region 2 Councillor
Adam Frank
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Thomas Jefferson Univ Hosp
Philadelphia, PA
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Region 3 Councillor
Virginia(Ginny) McBride
Executive Director
OurLegacy
Orlando, FL
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Region 4 Councillor
Jeffrey Orlowski
Chief Executive Officer
LifeShare Transplant Donor Svcs of OK
Oklahoma City, OK
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Region 5 Councillor
Mark Barr
Co-Director, USC Transplant Institute
Keck Hospital of USC
Los Angeles, CA
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Region 6 Councillor
Willscott Naugler
Medical Director, OHSU Liver Transplant Program
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Region 7 Councillor
Edward Hollinger
Surgical Director of Kidney Transplant
Rush University Med Ctr
Chicago, IL
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Region 8 Councillor
Clifford Miles
Associate Professor of Medicine-Nephrology
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Region 9 Councillor
Nicole Hayde
Medical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Region 10 Councillor
Jonathan Fridell
Chief of Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Indiana University Health
Indianapolis, IN
End Term Date June 30, 2023
Region 11 Councillor
David Gerber
Chief, Abdominal Transplant Surgery
UNC Hospitals
Chapel Hill, NC
End Term Date June 30, 2023
General Public Representative
Laurel Avery
General Public Region 11
Manassas, VA
End Term Date June 30, 2024
General Public Representative
Earnest Davis
General Public Region 10
Cincinnati, OH
End Term Date June 30, 2023
General Public Representative
Robert Goodman
GPM Robert Goodman
Westampton, NJ
End Term Date June 30, 2023
General Public Representative
Kelley Hitchman
Section Chief, HLA
Histo & Immunogenetics Lab
San Antonio, TX
End Term Date June 30, 2025
General Public Representative
Heather Hunt
Executive Director
General Public Region 1
Barnstable, MA
End Term Date June 30, 2025
General Public Representative
Melissa McQueen
President
Transplant Families
Sun City, AZ
End Term Date June 30, 2024
General Public Representative
James Sharrock
Retired Counsel
General Public Region 4
Edmond, OK
End Term Date June 30, 2024
General Public Representative
Merry Smith
Director, Business Development
General Public Region 8
Greenville, SC
End Term Date June 30, 2023
General Public Representative
Christopher Woody
General Public Region 11
Richmond, VA
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Minority Transplant Representative
Irene Kim
Cedars-Sinai Med Center
Los Angeles, CA
End Term Date June 30, 2023
At Large
Maryjane Farr
Medical Director Heart Transplant
UT Southwestern Medical Center/
Dallas, TX
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Jan Finn
President/Chief Executive Officer
Midwest Transplant Network
Westwood, KS
End Term Date June 30, 2023
At Large
Manish Gandhi
Director, Tissue Typing Lab
Tissue Typing Lab at Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Wendy Garrison
Procurement Coordinator
Lifesharing - A Donate Life Org.
San Diego, CA
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Evelyn Hsu
Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, WA
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Annette Jackson
Lab Director
Clinical Transplantation Immunology
Durham, NC
End Term Date June 30, 2023
At Large
Alan Langnas
Chief, Transplant Surgery
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Barry Massa
Executive Director
LifeCenter Organ Donor Network
Cincinnati, OH
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Lloyd Ratner
Director, Renal & Pancreatic Transplantation
New York-Presbyterian/Columbia
New York, NY
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Meg Rogers
Director of Transplant Center Relations
LifeSource Upper Midwest OPO
Minneapolis, MN
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Gail Stendahl
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Childrens Hosp of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
End Term Date June 30, 2023
At Large
Stuart Sweet
Med. Director, Pediatric Lung Transplant Program
St. Louis Children's Hospital
St. Louis, MO
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Andrea Tietjen
AVP, Transplant Administrative Services
St Barnabas Medical Center
Livingston, NJ
End Term Date June 30, 2023
At Large
Bryan Whitson
Surgical Director, Lung Transplantation
Ohio State Univ Med Ctr
Columbus, OH
End Term Date June 30, 2024
At Large
Daniel Yip
Cardiologist
Mayo Clinic Hospital Florida
Jacksonville, FL
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Ex Officio (non voting)
Shannon Dunne
Senior Public Health Analyst
Division of Transplantation, HHS
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Ex Officio (non voting)
Frank Holloman
Deputy Director
Division of Transplantation, HHS
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Ex Officio (non voting)
Christopher McLaughlin
Policy Advisor, FAC-COR-III, OPTN Contract
Division of Transplantation, HHS
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Ex Officio (non voting)
Shannon Taitt
Chief, Organ Transplantation Branch
Division of Transplantation, HHS
Rockville, MD
End Term Date June 30, 2024
Committee Liaison
Susie Sprinson
Board Liaison
UNOS-Employees
Richmond, VA
End Term Date June 30, 2025
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- 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 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)