Medical Board Executive Committee

Current Medical Board Members

Michael Cecka, PhD
Los Angeles, CA
- Lab Director National Kidney Registry
- Professor Emeritus UCLA Immunogenetics Center
Marian Charlton, RN
Hackensack, NJ
- Chief Transplant Coordinator Hackensack Meridian Health / Hackensack University Medical Center
Matthew Cooper, MD
Milwaukee, WI
- Surgical Director National Kidney Registry
- Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
- Professor of Surgery Medical College of Wisconsin
Stuart Flechner, MD
Cleveland, OH
- Professor of Surgery Cleveland Clinic
- Councilor American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Chris Freise, MD
San Francisco, CA
- Transplant Surgeon UCSF Medical Center
- Professor of Surgery
Caroline Jadlowiec, MD
Phoenix, AZ
- Transplant Surgeon Mayo Clinic Arizona
- Assistant Professor of Surgery Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
- Consultant Division of Transplant Surgery
Raja Kandaswamy, MD
Minneapolis, MN
- Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota
- Professor Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota
Sandip Kapur, MD
New York, NY
- Chief Transplantation New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Professor of Surgery Cornell University
Christina Klein, MD
Atlanta, GA
- Medical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Piedmont Transplant Institute
Amanda Leonberg-Yoo, MD
Philadelphia, PA
- Director, Training Program Penn Medicine
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Penn Medicine
Didier Mandelbrot, MD
Madison, WI
- Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation University of Wisconsin-Madison
Massimo Mangiola, PhD, D (ABHI)
New York, NY
- Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Karen Miller, RN
Madison, WI
- Chair, Operations Committee National Kidney Registry
- Transplant Coordinator University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil
New York, NY
- Chair, Department of Surgery and Director NYU Langone Transplant Institute
- Professor of Surgery
Dean Pomerleau, PhD
Pittsburgh, PA
- Living Kidney and Liver Donor
- Senior Research Scientist (adjunct) Carnegie Mellon University
Mikel Prieto, MD
Rochester, MN
- Surgical Director of the Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Program Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
Rajalingam Raja, PhD
San Francisco, CA
- Professor of Clinical Surgery
- Director, Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory University of California San Francisco
Robert Redfield, MD
Philadelphia, PA
- Associate Director of the Kidney Transplant University of Pennsylvania Hospital
Stefan G. Tullius, MD, PhD
Boston, MA
- Joseph E. Murray, MD Distinguished Chair in Transplantation Surgery
- Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Jeffrey Veale, MD
Los Angeles, CA
- Director Donor Exchange Program & Surgeon UCLA
- Professor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jennifer Verbesey, MD
Washington, D.C.
- Director, Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute
- Surgical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program MedStar Georgetown Hospital/Children's National Medical Center
- Assistant Professor of Surgery Georgetown University Medical School
Jessica Vucci
Washington D.C.
- Paired Kidney Exchange Coordinator MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute
Amy Waterman, PhD
Los Angeles, CA
- Research Director National Kidney Registry
- Deborah C. and Clifton B. Phillips Centennial Chair for Clinical Research in Transplant Medicine J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center at Houston Methodist Hospital
- Professor of Outcomes Research in Surgery Academic Institute
- Full Member Research Institute
- Director, Patient Engagement, Diversity, and Education Department of Surgery Houston Methodist

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