Governing Board

OFFICERS

Chair: Stevan Whitt, MD (Chief Medical Officer | University of Missouri Health Care)

Vice Chair: Sameer Brahmavar (Chief Product Officer | Interlace Health)

Second Vice Chair: Sean Kumer, MD, PhD, FACS (Vice President and Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation |The University of Kansas Health System)

Immediate Past Chair: Barbara MacArthur RN, MN, FAAN (Vice President of Cardiac Services | The University of Kansas Health System)

BOARD MEMBERS

Michael Borkon, MD (Mission Hills, Kansas)

Thomas Crouch, MD (Kansas City, Missouri)

Kevin Dishman, MD (Senior Vice President and Chief Medical and Quality Officer | Stormont Vail Health)

Michael R. Dunaway (President | Dunaway Consulting Group)

Gary Duncan, LFACHE (President Emeritus | Freeman 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)

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: Carole Freiberger-O’Keefe, DO (Critical Care Medicine | Saint Luke’s Health System)

BOARD MEMBERS

Doris C. Agwu, MPH (Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | UMKC School of Medicine)

Tracie Baker (Donor Family Member | Kansas City, Missouri)

Christina Bishop, PhD (Chief of Laboratory Services | Midwest Transplant Network)

Christie Brock, DO, MBA, FACOS, FACS (Medical 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 (Director of Governmental Affairs | The University of Kansas Health System)

Pranavkumar Dalal, MD (Nephrologist | Research Medical Center)

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)

Alexandra Garrick, MSEd (Executive Director | National Kidney Foundation)

Jeff Goble (President | Goble Consulting Group)

George Herrera (Executive Vice President of Donor Services| MTF Biologics)

James D. Kaplan, MD (Pulmonary/Internal Medicine | Kansas Pulmonary & Sleep Specialists)

Michael Moncure III, MD, MHCM, FACS (Administrative Medical Director | Midwest Transplant Network)

Bhargava Mullapudi, MD, FACS (Chief, Section of Transplant Surgery | Children’s Mercy Kansas City)

Todd Murphy, MD (General and Critical Care Surgeon | Ascension Via Christi St. Francis)

Carol Perry, RN, BSN, FACHE (Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer | Stormont Vail Health)

Naftali Presser, MD (Transplant Surgeon | Research Medical Center)

Stephen Reintjes Jr., MD (Neurosurgeon |North Kansas City Hospital)

Timothy Schmitt, MD (Director of Transplantation | The University of Kansas Health System)

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)