The 20th Annual UNOS Transplant

Management Forum

April 25-27, 2012

WINNERS

1st Annual Deedle Heckenkemper Leader in Transplant Administration Award

Edward Zavala, MBAVanderbilt University

Medical CenterNashville, TN

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Category 1

Cost Reduction/Increase in Work Efficiency/Patient Care

Safety ProgramsSponsored by

LifeTrac Network

Clinical Care Triad: A Team “Workout” to Facilitate Safe

Patient DischargeZeynep Tulu, MS, MEMP, Tom Caffey, MBA, CSSBB, CQE, Tracy Carroll, BSN, RN, PCCN, David Gerber, MD, Jessica Hawn, RN, BSN, Lisa Jurgevich, MSW, LCSW, Juanita Parker, BSN, RN, MBA, MHA, Leonie Vachon, A/GNP-

BC

University of North Carolina Hospitals,Chapel Hill, NC

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Category 2

Quality Assurance/Improvement/

Transplant Pharmacoeconomics

Sponsored byOTTR Chronic Care

Solutions

Reduction of Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)

Readmissions Due to Heart Failure and Arrhythmia

Danielle Miller, RN, BSN, Stephanie Hoppin, RN, BSN, Tracie Rivet, Wil

Sutton, Mandy Bowen, RN, Tracy Vernon-Platt, NP, Ian Hollis, PharmD, Randy

Watkins, BSEE, SSBB

University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

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Category 3

Transplant Administration in General

Sponsored byTransplant Communications/

Transplant News

Volume-Outcome Trends in Mortality of Orthotopic Liver

Transplant Centers

Valeriya Kettelhut, MD, MPH, CMQ, Preethy Nayer, MD, PhD

The Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

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Category 4

Revenue Management/Optimizing

ProfitabilitySponsored by

Transplant Management Group, LLC

The Living Donor SAC: A Compliant, Commonsense

Approach to Billing Another Transplant Program for Living

Donor Services

Gwen McNatt, RN, MS, CNN, FNP-BC, Jason Skrzypinski, BS, MBA, Stephen

Nelson, BANorthwestern Memorial Hospital,

Chicago, IL

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Category 5

Transplant Center Initiatives to Increase Organ Donation

Sponsored byLifeLink of Puerto Rico

Using Multiple Modalities to Increase Living Donation

Opportunities

Randal Detwiler, MD, Deborah Erickson, RN, MSN, PhD, Eddie Fuller III, MD, Lauren Kearns, MSN, RN-BC, Ann Litts, RN, BSN, CCTC, Tomasz Kozlowski, MD, Yara Park, MD, Alex Toledo, MD, Zeynep Tulu, MS,

MEMP

University of North Carolina Hospitals,Chapel Hill, NC

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Category 6

Transplant Data: Analysis, Reporting and Research

Sponsored byManagement Science

Associates, Inc.

Improving Data Capture in a Large Metropolitan Kidney & Pancreas Transplant ProgramMeredith Aull, PharmD, Paul Murphy, Paul Sonder, Kathleen Erbacher, MPA, Stefanie

Goldberg,Sandip Kapur, MD

New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

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BEST of the BEST

Sponsored byAST Transplant Administrators

Community of Practice

HLA Monitoring is an Effective Tool for Transplant Program

Cost Reduction and Improved Waitlist Management

Tamra Grote, RN, BSN, Hirohito Ichii, MD, PhD, Eric Belen, BSIE, MBA, Jon Le, BS,

Eileen Polito, RN, BSN, Clarence Foster III, MD, FACS

University of California Irvine, Orange, CA

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