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Living Donor

LDCOP represents multidisciplinary members who are involved in the care of living kidney or liver organ donors throughout the donation continuum. LDCOP works to enhance the quality, effectiveness, access, and integrity of living donation.

AST members can join LDCOP.

What We’re Working on Now

Educational Content and Visual Abstracts

Develop professional and patient educational content from our active workgroups to serve the field and the larger community.

Support a Member Program

Foster interdisciplinary collaboration by funding the memberships of five non-doctoral professionals working in the field of living donation and integrating them into the LDCOP.

Living Donor Toolkits

Revise and update the Patient and Provider sections of the Living Kidney and Living Liver Donor toolkits.

ATC Travel Grants

Provide travel grants to trainees presenting abstracts on living donation at the ATC.

Contact the LDCOP

Staff Liaison | Olivia Snow

If you have questions related to the Living Donor Community of Practice, please contact Olivia Snow.

2026-2027 Executive Committee

Mona Doshi, MBBS

Chair
Term ending: 2028

Clinical Professor
University of Michigan

Angie Nishio Lucar, MD

Co-Chair
Term ending: 2028

Associate Professor
University of Virginia

AnnMarie Liapakis, MD

Past Chair
Term ending: 2028

Associate Professor of Medicine & Surgery
New York University Langone Transplant Institute

Lama Abdelnour, MD

Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2027

Medical Director of The Living Donor Kidney Transplant
University of California Los Angeles

Yasar Caliskan, MD

Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2027

Transplant Nephrologist
Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Danielle Tholey, MD

Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2027

Assistant Professor
Sidney Kimmel Medical College - Thomas Jefferson University

Reem Daloul, MD

Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2028

Physician
Allegheny General Hospital

Whitney Jackson, MD

Liver Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2028

Transplant Hepatologist
University of Colorado

Liza Cholin, MD

Early Career Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2027

Nephrologist
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

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This content was developed independently by AST and supported by a financial contribution from Sanofi