Our Galvanized Task Force
SRTR Directors, 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 Directors and SRTR Senior Staff members who are experts in their subfields of transplantation. In addition, 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 Medical Informatics |
| 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 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 |
| Chris Comstock | Full-Stack Software Engineer |
| Avery Cook, MPH, MSW | Project Coordinator |
| Tonya Eberhard | Communications Coordinator |
| Ryan Follmer | IT Director |
| Anna Gillette | Medical Editor |
| Peter Golden | Systems Administrator |
| Ahmed Habashy, PMP | Senior IT Project Manager |
| Patrick Johnson | Senior SQL Database Engineer |
| Amy Ketterer | Senior Communications Coordinator |
| Sydney Kletter | Senior Administrative Assistant |
| Dan Larson | SQL Database Engineer |
| Grace Lyden, PhD | Biostatistician |
| Warren McKinney, PhD | Health Equity and Disparities Researcher |
| Jonathan Miller, PhD, MPH | Biostatistician |
| Caitlyn Nystedt, MPH, PMP | Program Director, Organ Donation and Transplantation Research |
| Hilford Ponnie | Systems Administrator |
| Joshua Pyke, PhD | IT Manager, DevOps |
| 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 | Senior Software Engineer |
| Katie Siegert, MPH | Project Manager |
| Bryn Thompson, MPH | Senior Project Manager |
| Tim Weaver, MS | Biostatistician |
| Nicholas Wood, PhD | Biostatistician |
| David Zaun, MS | Senior Manager of Biostatistics |
