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
Kelly Duffin, 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
Special Initiatives Director Office of Salt Lake County Mayor 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
Josef Stehlik, MD
Director, VAMC Cardiac Transplant
VA SLC Health Care System
Represents: Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Mike Somers Executive Director Mountain Valley Chapter | JDRF Represents: volunteer health association
Ivan Zendejas-Ruiz, MD
Transplant Surgeon
Intermountain Medical Center
Represents: Intermountain Medical Center