Our Galvanized Task Force

SRTR Senior Staff and Project Team

SRTR is administered by the Chronic Disease Research Group of the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (formerly known as the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our leadership team is made up of SRTR Senior Staff members who are experts in their subfields of transplantation. In addition to our Senior Staff, our support team is made up of dedicated individuals who work diligently to provide the best information possible to all of our stakeholders.

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Directors

Jon Snyder, PhD, MS

Director
Ajay Israni, MD, MS

Deputy Director/Medical Director
Bertram Kasiske, MD, FACP

Medical Director for Living Donation
Ryutaro (Ryo) Hirose, MD

Surgical Director

Senior Staff

David Axelrod, MD, MBA, FACS

Senior Staff for Economics
Monica Colvin, MD

Senior Staff for Heart Transplantation
Howard M. Gebel, PhD, D(ABHI)

Senior Staff for Histocompatibility
Sommer Gentry, PhD

Senior Staff for Simulated Allocation Modeling
Allyson Hart, MD, MS

Senior Staff for Patient and Family Affairs
Simon Horslen, MB, ChB, FRCPCH, FAASLD, FAST

Senior Staff for Intestine, Liver, Pediatrics
Lawrence Hunsicker, MD, PhD

Senior Staff for Special Studies
Raja Kandaswamy, MD

Senior Staff for Pancreas Transplantation
W. Ray Kim, MD

Senior Staff for Liver Transplantation
John (Jack) Lake, MD

Senior Staff for Liver Transplantation
Krista Lentine, MD, PhD

Senior Staff for Kidney & Living Donation
Mark Schnitzler, PhD

Senior Staff for Economics
Dorry Segev, MD, PhD

Senior Staff for Special Studies
Jodi Smith, MD, MPH

Senior Staff for Pediatric Transplantation
Peter G. Stock, MD, PhD

Senior Staff for Kidney and Pancreas
Maryam Valapour, MD, MPP

Senior Staff for Lung Transplantation

Project Team

Yoon Son Ahn, MS

Biostatistician
Katherine Audette, MS

Project Manager
Tonya Eberhard

Communications Coordinator
Carl Fils-Aime

Webserver Administrator
Christian Folken

Project Manager
Ryan Follmer

IT Director
Mark Fredrickson, MPH

SQL Developer
Pamela Giles

Senior Administrative Assistant
Patrick Johnson

SQL Developer
Amy Ketterer, SMS

Senior Communications Coordinator
Greta Knefelkamp

Software Engineer
Warren McKinney, PhD

Health Equity and Disparities Researcher
Jonathan Miller, PhD, MPH

Biostatistician
Caitlyn Nystedt, MPH, PMP

Program Manager
Hilford Ponnie

Network and Systems Administration
Joshua Pyke, PhD

Senior Software Engineer
David Schladt, MS

Biostatistician
Mona Shater, MA

Marketing and Communications Director
C. Daniel Sheets

Network and Systems Administration
Eugene Shteyn, MS

Software Engineer
Matthew Tabaka

Data Visualization Analyst
Bryn Thompson, MPH

Senior Project Manager
Mary Van Beusekom, MS, ELS, MWC

Medical Editor
Tim Weaver, MS

Biostatistician
David Zaun, MS

Senior Manager of Biostatistics