Editorial Board

Web site Mission

Transplant Living is dedicated to being the most up-to-date comprehensive online resource for transplant patients and their families. The Web site seeks to educate visitors about a full range of medications, treatments, emerging trends and research available on the subject of transplantation.

Developing High Quality Medical Content

Content for the Transplant Living Web site is developed by the United Network of Organ Sharing. To help ensure that the Web site is accurate, unbiased and understandable, an editorial board of transplant candidates, recipients, living donors and healthcare professionals--from a wide variety of specialties affiliated with different hospitals, schools of medicine and organizations--review all content before it is posted.

Editorial Board Members

Clyde F. Barker, MD
Chief of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia, PA

David Burgio
Berea, KY
Patient representative

Barry S. Friedman, RN
Administrative Director, Transplant Services
Children's Medical Center of Dallas
Solid Organ Transplant Program
Dallas, TX

John J. Fung, MD, PhD
Chief of Transplantation Surgery
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Shannon Temple Gingras
UNOS Web Content Editor

Robert Higgins, MD
Chair, Div. of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

John C. F. Hodges
Living unrelated kidney donor, 2003
General Public Representative - Living Donor, OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors, 2008-2011
Discussion moderator, www.livingdonorsonline.org

Susan Kelly, RN
Clinical Coordinator Liver Program
Children's Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL

Donna Luebke, RN, CNP
Cleveland, OH

Paul Oldam
Elm Grove, WI
Patient representative and heart recipient

Kristi J. Ross, RN, CCTC (Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator)
Transplant Coordinator
Swedish Medical Center
Seattle, WA

Nancy L. Senst, RN, CPTC (Certified Procurement Transplant Coordinator)
Tissue Services Manager
LifeSource
St. Paul, MN

Helen G. (Gigi) Spicer, RN
Clinical Director, Kidney Transplant Program
Henrico Doctors Hospital
Richmond, VA

Rita D. Suggs, RN, CPTC (Certified Procurement Transplant Coordinator)
Transplant Coordinator
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Memphis, TN

Debi Surlas, RN
Naples, FL
Patient representative and kidney/pancreas recipient

Beverley Trinkle
UNOS Patient Services

Carlton J. Young, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Transplantation
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

James B. Young, MD
Cardiac Transplant Surgeon
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH

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