Executive Director / President

Chief Financial Officer/Director
Corporate Compliance Officer

Chief Quality Officer/Director

Director, Clinical Services

Director, Professional Education/Hospital Services

Director, Public Education/Public Relations

Director, Donor Family 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

Kelly Duffin, MHA, FACHE
Operations Officer
Intermountain Healthcare

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 Program
Intermountain Medical Center
Represents: Utah Cardiac Transplant Program

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

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

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

Cindy Gibbons
Represents: donor family

Karen Hale
Office of Mayor/Salt Lake County
Represents: public

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

Barbara Kerwin, DO
Chair, DonorConnect Medical Advisory Board
Associate Medical Director, DonnorConnect
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 Lab
ARUP Blood Services
Represents: histocompatibility

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

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

(to be announced)                                      Represents:  volunteer health association

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