Governing Board

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)

Advisory Board

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)