Executive Leadership
Janice F. Whaley
Chief Executive Officer
Sean Van Slyck
Chief Operating Officer
Nikole Neidlinger, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Sandra Mejia
Chief Financial Officer
Denise Kinder
Chief Strategy Officer
Mark Borer
VP of Quality Systems
Bob Duplantier
VP of Human Resources
JT Mason
VP of Information Technology
Angela Rosati
VP of Operations
Senior Leadership
Sandy Andrada
Regional Director, South Bay
Rhonda Alfaro
Director of Operations
Jason Bailey
Regional Director, Fresno
Brandy Gleason
Regional Director, East/West Bay
Susan Hall
Director of Quality Systems
Cathy Koubek
Director of Marketing and Communications
John Lilley
Regional Director, Nevada
Luis Mayan
Director of Transplant Relations
Megan Nelson
Acting Director of Education and Talent Development
Sandra Olson
Controller
Kim Patton
Regional Director, Norcal/Stockton/Modesto
Ahmad Salehi, M.D., Ph.D
Director of Research Program
Stephanie Woidtke
Director of Performance Improvement
Board of Directors
Chief Executive Officer
Janice F. Whaley
Chief Executive Officer
Donor Network West
Ex-Officio
Executive and Finance Committees
Chair
Hamila Kownacki, RN, MHA
Chief Operating Officer
California Pacific Medical Center
Executive and Finance Committees
Secretary-Treasurer
Jill Sullivan, RN, MSN
Vice President Hospital Transformation,
Heart and Transplant Service Lines
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
Executive Committee
Finance Committee Chair
Board Members
Stephan Busque, M.D.
Director, Adult Kidney & Pancreas Program
Associate Professor
Stanford Medical Center
Thomas A. Cycyota
President & Chief Executive Officer
AlloSource
Finance Committee
Reese Fawley
Executive Director
Health Plan Strategy & Transplantation
Chief Contracting Officer
UCSF Medical Center & UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Michael J. Ferenc, M.D.
Forensic Pathologist
Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau
Luis Fonseca, FACHE
Chief Operating Officer
Alameda Health System
Chris Freise, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Surgical Director of Kidney Transplant
Interim Chief of Transplant Division
UCSF Medical Center
Michelle A. Jorden, M.D.
Chief Medical Examiner & Neuropathologist
Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner Santa Clara County
Lloyd LaCuesta
Journalist, Retired
Kathleen F. Lynaugh, BS/RN, MBA, JD
Associate General Counsel
Blue Shield of California, San Francisco
Executive Committee
Erik Olson, MHA
Vice President & CEO, Renown Regional Medical Center
Michael J. Peterson
Healthcare Consultant/Advisor
Finance Committee
John Rabkin, M.D., FACS
Dept. of Transplantation
California Pacific Medical Center
Rajalingam Raja, PhD (ABHI)
Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery
Director, Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory
University of California, San Francisco
Eric L. Williams
Chief Operating Officer
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara Medical Center
Michelle Zyromski, Esq.
Partner
Zyromski Konicek LLP
Executive Committee
Medical Advisory Board
Co-Chair
Nikole Neidlinger, M.D.
Chief Medical Director, Donor Network West
Abdominal Transplant Surgeon
California Pacific Medical Center
Co-Chair
Ryutaro Hirose, M.D.
Associate Program Director
Division of Transplant Surgery
UCSF Medical Center
Members
Michael J. Bauer, M.D.
Donor Network West Tissue Services Medical Director
Jack Boyd, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Julie Brown, MBA, MPH
Principal, Julie Brown Associates
William Bry, M.D.
Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant
California Pacific Medical Center
Waldo Concepcion, M.D.
Professor of Surgery, Multi Organ Transplantation
Chief of Clinical Transplantation
Chief of Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
Stanford University School of Medicine
Ann DiMatteo, BSN, MSN
Transplant Administrator
Manager, Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program
California Pacific Medical Center
Robert Fulbright, JD, MA
Bioethics Program Director
Renown Health
Jack Harbell, M.D.
Senior Associate Consultant
Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Hepatobiliary Surgery
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale
James Hopkins, D.O.
Donor Family Member
Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Kaiser Permanente
Gerri James, RN, BSN, CCTC
Transplant Administrator
Manager of Kidney & Lung Transplant Programs
Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital
Jennifer Kerney, RN, MSN, CRNP
Assistant Director Transplant Services
Kidney Transplant Program
UCSF Medical Center
Jasleen Kukreja, M.D., MPH
Surgical Director of Lung Transplant Program
UCSF Medical Center
Ruchika Mishra, PhD
Senior Bioethicist
Program in Medicine and Human Values
Sutter Health Bay Area
James Orr, M.D.
Trauma & Emergency Surgery
Kaiser Foundation Hospital – Vacaville
Thomas Pham, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
Brett Sheridan, M.D.
Department Chair of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Surgery
Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation
California Pacific Medical Center
David Shimabukuro, MDCM
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Associate Medicine Director, 9 & 13 ICU
University of California, San Francisco
Penny Stroud, MBA
Principal, Cattaneo & Stroud, Inc.
Moussa F. Yazbeck, M.D., FCCM
Neurocritical Care / Critical Care Medicine
Vice Chief of Staff
John Muir Medical Center