Recovery and Preservation
2024-2025 Executive Committee
Chair: Jorge Mallea, MD
Co-Chair: Paulo Martins, MD, PhD
Past Chair: Heidi Yeh, MD
Board Liaison: Matthew Cooper, MD, FAST
Danielle Haakinson, MD
Charles Strom, MD
Alban Longchamp, MD, PhD
Early Career: Rohil Jain, PhD
Staff Liaison: Olivia Snow (osnow@myast.org)
2023-2024 Activities
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Develop professional material on machine profusion.
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Collaborate with other COPs on Organ Recovery Educational Offerings.
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Increase new member engagement in COP by inviting new members to EC meetings each month.
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Invite COP members to post comments on UNOS policies through the HUB.
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Establish three workgroups to focus on Education, Communication, and Public Policy.
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Continue the Online Bibliography Project.
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Offer two travel grants to ATC for trainees and junior faculty.
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Host Open Meeting for ATC Program Proposal creation and collaboration.
Advisory Board
David Klassen, MD, Chief Medical Officer
United Network of Organ Sharing
Alvin Roth, PhD, Professor of Economics
Stanford University
James Markmann, MD, Chief of Transplantation
Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Langer, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lori West MD, Director
Canadian National Transplant Research Program
David Sachs, MD, Professor of Immunology
Harvard Medical School
David Hartell, MA, Executive Director
Canadian National Transplant Research Program
Gerald Brandacher, MD, Scientific Director,
Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Program
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Utkan Demirci, PhD, Professor of Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Jason Acker, PhD, Past President
Society for Cryobiology
Jayan Nagendran, MD, PhD
Director of Research, Division of Cardiac Surgery
University of Alberta
John Bischof, PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Matthew Wadsworth, MBA
Vice President of Clinical Affairs
Nevada Donor Network
Gina Dunne Smith
Executive Director, International Institute for the
Advancement of Medicine
Kevin Myer, MSHA
President and CEO
LifeGift Organ Donation Center
David Nelson, MD
Chief of Heart Transplant Medicine
INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center of Oklahoma