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https://www.transplantpro.org/news/optnunos-officers-and-board-members-elected-2015/Members of the national organ donation and transplantation community have elected 25 members to the OPTN/UNOS board of directors, including a new president, vice-president/president-elect, vice president for patient and donor affairs, and secretary. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) serves as the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under federal contract.All board members are uncompensated volunteers and serve terms ranging from one to three years, depending on the office to which they are elected. Their terms of service begin on July 1, 2016.Stuart C. Sweet, M.D., Ph.D., currently the Vice President/President-Elect, will assume the presidency. He is medical director of the pediatric lung transplant program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the W. McKim Marriott professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis.Yolanda T. Becker, M.D., will become the organization’s Vice President/President-Elect. She is a professor of surgery and director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at University of Chicago Medicine.Kenyon W. Murphy, J.D., will become the organization’s Vice President for Patient and Donor Affairs. He is a liver recipient.Diane LaPointe Rudow, APN-BC, DNP, CCTC, will become the organization’s Secretary. She is director of the Zweig Family Center for Living Donation and associate professor in the department of health evidence and policy at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.Other newly elected members are as follows:Immediate Past President – Betsy J. Walsh, J.D., M.P.H.Region 1 Councillor – David A. Axelrod, M.D., M.B.A., Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical CenterRegion 3 Councillor – Thomas C. Pearson, M.D., D.Phil., Emory University HospitalRegion 4 Councillor – Adam W. Bingaman, M.D., Ph.D., Methodist Specialty and Transplant HospitalRegion 5 Councillor – Lisa Stocks, RN, M.S.N., FNP, LifesharingRegion 6 Councillor – Christian S. Kuhr, M.D., Virginia Mason Medical CenterRegion 7 Councillor – David C. Cronin, M.D., Ph.D., Medical College of WisconsinRegion 9 Councillor – Lewis W. Teperman, M.D., New York University Medical CenterThoracic Transplant Professional Representative – Jonathan M. Chen, M.D., Seattle Children’s HospitalAt Large Physician/Surgeon Representatives: • Kim M. Olthoff, M.D., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania • Peter G. Stock, M.D., UCSF Medical Center • W. Kenneth Washburn, M.D., Ohio State University Medical CenterAt Large Representative – Carrie Lindower, RN, M.B.A., CPTC, CCTC, SUNY HSC at Stony BrookAt Large OPO Representative – Alexandra K. Glazier, J.D., M.P.H., New England Organ BankMedical/Scientific Organization Representatives: • Michael G. Ison, M.D., Northwestern Memorial Hospital • Mitchell L. Henry, M.D., Ohio State University Medical CenterHistocompatibility Representative – Michael D. Gautreaux, Ph.D., Wake Forest University School of MedicineOPO Representative – Gordon R. Bowen, M.S., LifeBancTransplant Coordinator Representative – John Belcher, B.S., CCEMT-P, CPTC, New England Organ BankPatient and Donor Affairs and Voluntary Health Organization Representatives: • Willie J. Oler, Ed.D. • Elizabeth A. Schumacher, J.D.*NOTE: a runoff vote will be held for the remaining seat between candidates Mary Kathleen Schwab, B.S.N., CCTC, and Rose T. D’Acquisto, B.A.. The vote will conclude Friday, March 18.United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) serves as the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) by contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Transplantation. The OPTN brings together medical professionals, transplant recipients and donor families to develop national organ transplantation policy.
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