Leadership and Advisors
Finger Lake Donor Recovery Network’s advisory boards play an important role in guiding its services to the community.
Below is a list of the current board members. Link to see a list of committees and members.
Advisory Board Members
Victoria Adler, RN, BSN, CPTC, CEBT, Executive Director/Tissue Bank Director, Sight Society of Northeastern NY, Inc., Lions Eye Bank at Albany
Jarrod A. Atkinson, MS, RN, NE-BC, CCRN-K, Director, 2400 and ICU, Rochester Regional Health – Unity Hospital
Juliann Axton, Transplant Administrator, Upstate University Hospital
Dorgam Badran-Zayed, MD, Chair, Organ Donor Council, St. Joseph’s Hospital
Leway Chen, MD, Director, Heart Failure and Transplant Program, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Julius Cheng, MD, Associate Professor, Burn Trauma and Emergency Surgery, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Reverend Joseph Colon, Chaplain, St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center
Myra Coppage, PhD, Director, Tissue Typing Lab, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Reut Hod Dvoria, PhD, Director, Histocompatibility Laboratory, Upstate University Hospital
Donna Ferris, RN, Unit Manager, Medical ICU, St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center
Laura Hamilton, MD, Family Practice Physician
Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, MD, Professor of Surgery; Chief, Division of Transplantation, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Charlene Hubbell, Supervisor, Tissue Typing Lab, Upstate University Hospital
Randeep Singh Kashyap, MD, Associate Professor, URMC Solid Organ Transplant, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Karen Kline, Donor Family Member
Mark Laftavi, MD, Professor of Surgery; Interim Chief of Transplant Services, Upstate University Hospital
David Landsberg, MD, FLDRN Medical Director; Professor and Chief of Medicine, Crouse Hospital
Margaret Lane, PhD, Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Brockport
Julius Gene Latorre, MD, Director, Neurocritical Care Services, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Upstate University Hospital
Linda Maiellano, Donor Family Member
Linda McAleer, Nursing Director for Pediatric Services, Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital
Diane McMullen, PhD, LCSW, Counseling Services, Donor Family Member
Helen McMurray, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pathology & Lab Medicine, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Elizabeth McNamara, Senior Regional Director, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
Nancy Metzler, Transplant Administrator, Solid Organ Transplant Program, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Matthew J. Miller, Manager, Miller Funeral Home
MaryLu Moriarty, Human Resource Liaison, Instructor of Business, Jefferson Community College
Janine Morris, RN, BSN, MPH, Transplant Administrator, Transplant Services, Upstate University Hospital
Kathy Parrinello, PhD, RN, Chief Operating Officer, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Paritosh Prasad, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Debra E. Roberts, MD, Medical Professor of the Neuromedicine ICU, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Beverly Shank, Organ Recipient
Kimberly Smith, RN, Nurse Manager Critical Care/Cardiopulmonary, Samaritan Medical Center
Catherine Stephens, MSN, RN, CRNR, Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network Advisory Board Chair, Assistant Director of Nursing for Inpatient Services, Upstate University Hospital
James Szalados, MD, Neurointensivist and Director of Neurocritical Care, Rochester Regional Health System
Jeremy Taylor, MD, Nephrologist, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
E. Kate Valcin, MSN, RN, Associate Director for Adult Critical Care Nursing, URMC/Strong Memorial Hospital
Committees
Medical Affairs Committee
The Medical Affairs Committee will provide guidance, suggestions and recommendations to:
- Increase the number of organs recovered for the purposes of transplantation and/or research
- Increase the number of organs transplanted per donor
- Develop and/or revise clinical policies and procedures as needed
- Further enhance Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement program
Donor Family Advisory Committee
The Donor Family Advisory Committee will provide guidance, suggestions and recommendations to:
- Provide compassionate support to donor families
- Serve as a resource to Family Services Coordinator and other staff to assess and/or revise practices related to offering donation opportunities to families
- Provide After Care Program for donor families
- Participate in local, regional and national events supporting donor families
Public Education Committee
The Public Education Committee will provide guidance, suggestions and recommendations to:
- Help define public education
- Identify opportunities to provide public education programs within our service area
- Work collaboratively with other local, regional and national organizations to provide public education efforts
- Establish specific program goals and objectives
- Establish cost projections and metrics to measure success
- Elicit support from local, regional and/or national resources to fund public education initiatives
Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement (QA/PI) Committee
The Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Committee will provide guidance, suggestions and recommendations to:
- Create a culture of quality that will ensure FLDRN meets or exceeds its mission
- Systematically collect and analyze data to create, implement and evaluated targeted performance improvement measures
- Provide performance data and information to assist the FLDRN management team, QA/PI committee and the Advisory Board in making appropriate operational decisions
- Ensure FLDRN is complying with regulatory requirements/standards as outlined by CMS, OPTN/UNOS, New York State and AOPO
- Review and follow-up to complaints from customers/stakeholders