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

Justin Bradshaw, MHA, FACHE                                  Operations Officer                                                Intermountain Medical Center

Silvia E. Butler, CPHR, SPHR
Head of Human Resources Operations
Vivint Smart Home

Ryan B. Frazier
Vice Chair, DonorConnect Governing Board              Attorney
Kirton McConkie

Kurt Krieg
Senior Vice President of Development
Extell Development Company

Janet Louie 
Retired, Banking
Community Development

Kim E. Phillips, MSN, RN, CCTC 
Chair, DonorConnect Governing Board
Senior 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

Tahlia Baker, MD, FACS                                           Surgical Chief,  Transplant Services                            University of Utah Healthcare                    Represents: University Hospital / University of Utah Health Care

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

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

, MD
University of Utah Healthcare
Represents: neurosciences, neurology