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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.

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What We’re Working on Now

Educational Content and Visual Abstracts

Develop professional and patient educational content from our ten active workgroups to serve the field and the larger community. This includes the creation of visual abstracts and infographics by our multimedia workgroup.

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.

LDCOP Controversies Conference

Explore key barriers and identify mitigating strategies to improve clinical practice and workflow, financial and operational issues, ethics and policy, and education and outreach.

ATC Travel Grants

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

Specialty Resources

Living Donor Toolkit
Living Donor Circle of Excellence
Multimedia Resources
Education
Career Center
LDCOP on Social

Contact the LDCOP

Staff Liaison | Olivia Snow

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

2025-2026 Executive Committee

AnnMarie Liapakis, MD

Chair
Term ending: 2026

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

Mona Doshi, MBBS

Co-Chair
Term ending: 2026

Clinical Professor
University of Michigan

Krista Lentine, MD, PhD

Past Chair
Term ending: 2026

Professor of Medicine
Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Mallika Gupta, MD

Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2026

Assistant Professor, Transplant Nephrology
University of Kansas

Helen Han, MD

Liver Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2026

Program Director
University of Southern California

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

Alyson Kaplan, MD

Early Career Member-at-Large
Term ending: 2026

Transplant Nephrologist
Tufts Medical Center

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