the 20 th annual unos transplant management forum april 25-27, 2012
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1st Annual Deedle Heckenkemper Leader in Transplant Administration Award
Edward Zavala, MBAVanderbilt University
Medical CenterNashville, TN
Category 1
Cost Reduction/Increase in Work Efficiency/Patient Care
Safety Programs
Sponsored byLifeTrac Network
Clinical Care Triad: A Team “Workout” to Facilitate Safe
Patient Discharge
Zeynep 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
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
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
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, BA
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
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
Category 6
Transplant Data: Analysis, Reporting and Research
Sponsored byManagement Science
Associates, Inc.
Improving Data Capture in a Large Metropolitan Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Program
Meredith 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
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