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 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
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
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
Rajalingam Raja, PhD, FRCPath, D(ABHI)

Senior Staff for Histocompatibility
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
Ryan Follmer

IT Director
Pamela Giles

Senior Administrative Assistant
Anna Gillette

Medical Editor
Ahmed Habashy, PMP

Senior IT Project Manager
Patrick Johnson

SQL Database Developer
Amy Ketterer, SMS

Senior Communications Coordinator
Grace Lyden, PhD

Biostatistician
Warren McKinney, PhD

Health Equity and Disparities Researcher
Jonathan Miller, PhD, MPH

Biostatistician
Caitlyn Nystedt, MPH, PMP

Program Manager
Hilford Ponnie

Systems Administrator
Joshua Pyke, PhD

Senior Software Engineer
Cory Schaffhausen, PhD

Human Centered Design Engineer
David Schladt, MS

Biostatistician
Mona Shater, MA

Marketing and Communications Director
C. Daniel Sheets

Senior Systems Administrator
Eugene Shteyn, MS

Software Engineer
Bryn Thompson, MPH

Senior Project Manager
Katie Siegert, MPH

Project Manager
Tim Weaver, MS

Biostatistician
Courtney Williams

Project Coordinator
Nicholas Wood, PhD

Biostatistician
David Zaun, MS

Senior Manager of Biostatistics