Executive Director / President

Chief Financial Officer / Director
Corporate Compliance Officer

Chief Quality Officer / Director

Senior Director, Operations

Director, Professional Education /  Hospital Services

Director, Public Education /                Public Relations

Director, Donor Family Services

Director, Organ Recovery Services

Kirk A. Baggaley
Chair, DonorConnect Governing Board
Heart Recipient
Retired, Business and Risk Management

Cary Bate
Secretary/Treasurer, DonorConnect                            Governing Board
Marketing and Project Management
Academy Mortgage Corporation

Justin Bradshaw, MHA, FACHE
Operations Officer
Intermountain Medical Center

Ryan B. Frazier
Attorney
Kirton McConkie

Janet Louie 
Retired, Banking
Community Development

Kim E. Phillips, MSN, RN, CCTC 
Vice Chair, DonorConnect Governing Board
Director, Transplant Service Line
University of Utah Health Care

Wayne T. Pyle, MPA
City Manager
West Valley City

Tracy C. Schmidt, MHA, FACHE
President, DonorConnect Governing Board
Executive Director
DonorConnect

Lisa Vitkas, MBA, MHA, FACHE 
Operations Officer, Service Lines
Primary Children’s Hospital

Diane Alonso, MD, FACS (Ad Hoc)
DonorConnect Medical Director                        General and Transplant Surgeon                            Liver, Kidney, and Pancreas Transplant

Rami Alharethi, MD, FACC
Heart Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support
Intermountain Medical Center
Represents: Utah Cardiac Transplant Program

Safdar Ansari, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Neurocritical Care  Dept of Neurology
University of Utah Healthcare
Represents: neurosciences, neurology

Kristi Caldera, RN, BSN,CCRN
ICU Director Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center
Represents: hospital administration

Shaun Chandna, DO
Hepatology & Liver Transplant                      University of Utah Health
Represents: hepatology

Reg V. Ecker, CFSP, CPC, CCO
Wasatch Lawn – Dignity Memorial
Represents: funeral homes and mortuaries

Cindy Gibbons
Represents: donor family

Karen Hale
Represents: public

Chris Hanna
Executive Director
Utah Lions Eye Bank
Represents: tissue bank

Barbara Kerwin, DO
Chair, DonorConnect Medical Advisory Board
Associate Medical Director, DonorConnect
Intensivist, Critical Care Medical Services              McKay-Dee Hospital                                              Represents: intensive care

Robin Kim, MD, FACS                                            Surgical Director, Liver Transplant                          University of Utah Healthcare                                Represents: University Hospital / University of Utah Health Care

Eszter Lazar-Molnar, PhD
Director, H&I Laboratory
ARUP Blood Services
Represents: histocompatibility

Manuel Rodriguez-Davalos, MD
Transplant Surgeon
Represents: Primary Children’s Hospital

Mike Somers                                                          Executive Director                                                          Mountain Valley Chapter | JDRF                      Represents:  volunteer health association

Josef Stehlik, MD
Director, VAMC Cardiac Transplant
VA SLC Health Care System
Represents: Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Ivan Zendejas-Ruiz, MD
Transplant Surgeon
Represents: Intermountain Medical Center