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OFFICERS
Chair: Barbara MacArthur RN, MN (Vice President of Cardiac Services | The University of Kansas Health System)
Vice Chair: Stevan Whitt, MD (Chief Medical Officer | University of Missouri Health Care)
Second Vice Chair: Sameer Brahmavar (Prairie Village, Kansas)
Immediate Past Chair: A. Michael Borkon, MD (President | Mid America Heart & Lung Surgeons, PC)
BOARD MEMBERS
Thomas Crouch, MD (Kansas City, Missouri)
Kevin Dishman, MD (Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer | Stormont Vail Health)
Michael R. Dunaway (Leawood, Kansas)
Gary Duncan, LFACHE (President Emeritus | Freeman Health System)
Sean Kumer, MD (Vice President and Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation |The University of Kansas Health System)
Richard Muther, MD (Founding Partner | Kidney Associates of Kansas City)
Sarah Oakley, RN, MSN (Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer | North Kansas City Hospital)
Ken Powell (Senior Portfolio Manager, Equities | Mariner Wealth Advisors)
Steve Reintjes Sr., MD (President and Chief Executive Officer | North Kansas City Hospital)
David Theis (Garnett, Kansas)
Brad Warady, MD (Division Director, Pediatric Nephrology | Children’s Mercy Kansas City)
OFFICER
Chair: Tracie Baker (Donor Family Member | Kansas City, Missouri)
BOARD MEMBERS
Doris C. Agwu, MPH (Assistant Dean for the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | UMKC School of Medicine)
Aliessa Barnes, MD (Medical Director, Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation | Children’s Mercy Kansas City)
Tony Bavuso (Chief Executive Officer | Saving Sight)
Christina Bishop, PhD (HLA Laboratory Director | Midwest Transplant Network)
Dana Buchmueller, RN (Intensive Care Unit | Research Medical Center)
Jimi Cook, DVM, PhD, OTSC (Director of Thompson Laboratory for Regenerative Orthopaedics | University of Missouri Health Care)
Jodi Coombs, MBA, BSN, RN (Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer | Children’s Mercy Kansas City)
Reagan Cussimanio, JD (Governmental Affairs | The University of Kansas Health System)
Pranavkumar Dalal, MD (Transplant Nephrologist | Kidney Associates of Kansas City)
Alex Daneshmand, DO, MBA, FAAP (Executive Vice President and Chief Quality Officer | Children’s Mercy Kansas City)
Jameson Forster, MD (Transplant Surgeon | Saint Luke’s Health System)
Carole Freiberger-O’Keefe, DO (Critical Care Medicine | Saint Luke’s Health System)
Alexandra Garrick, MSEd (VHA Representative | National Kidney Foundation)
James D. Kaplan, MD (Pulmonary/Internal Medicine | Kansas Pulmonary & Sleep Specialists)
Michael Moncure, MD (Assistant Director of Surgery | University Health)
Bhargava Mullapudi, MD, FACS (Chief, Section of Transplant Surgery | Children’s Mercy Kansas City)
Todd Murphy, MD (Surgeon | Wichita Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Associates)
Carol Perry, RN, BSN, FACHE (Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer | Stormont Vail Health)
Naftali Presser, MD (Transplant Surgeon | Research Medical Center)
Steve Reintjes Jr. (Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery | North Kansas City Hospital)
Timothy Schmitt, MD, FACS (Professor of Surgery and Chief of Transplant | The University of Kansas Medical Center)
Mark Wakefield, MD (Transplant Surgeon | University of Missouri Health Care)
EMERITUS BOARD MEMBERS
Thomas H. Estep, MD (Wichita, Kansas)
Gilbert Ross Jr., MD (University of Missouri Health Care)