Recovery and Preservation
2022-2023 Executive Committee
Chair: Heidi Yeh, MD
Co-Chair: Jorge Mallea, MD
Past Chair: Korkut Uygun, PhD
Board Liaison: Burnett (Beau) Kelly, MD, MBA, FACS, FAST
Gregory Tietjen, PhD
Christopher Curran, CPTC CTBS CTOP
Paulo Martins, MD, PhD
Early Career: Jenna DiRito, PhD
Staff Liaison: Olivia Snow (osnow@myast.org)
2022-2023 Initiatives
-
Establish workgroup to plan Controversies Conference on machine perfusion.
-
Establish workgroup for joint AST/ASTS preservation techniques project.
-
Implement strategies to increase COP and AST diversity.
-
Propose recovery and preservation sessions at ATC 2023, in collaboration with other COPs.
-
Joint webinar with other COP on recovery and preservation.
-
Align EC and Advisory board membership based on the strategic plan and EC/advisory board membership plan approved in 2022
-
Survey and COP wide meeting to develop RAP COP curriculum
-
Populate RAP online library of member publications and non-member seminal articles in the field
-
Hold biannual to quarterly COP wide meetings
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