Giving Life a Second Chance
Through Organ & Tissue Donation

 

Governing and Medical Advisory Boards

The following individuals and organizations play an essential role in providing guidance for Gift of Life Donor Program's services and programs.


Gift of Life Governing Board

Meg McGoldrick, Chair

Abington Memorial Hospital, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

Clyde Barker, MD, Vice Chair

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Chairman Emeritus, Department of Surgery & Transplant Surgeon; Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery

Zakiyah Kadry, MD, Treasurer

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Chief, Division of Transplantation,

Cynthia London, Secretary

Donor Mother; Philadelphia Housing Authority

Francisco Badosa, MD, Immediate Past Chair

The Lankenau Hospital, Director, Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Program

Gerard Fulda, MD, Member

Chief of Trauma, Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, DE; Co-Chair, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Ethics Committee; Co-Chair, Ad Hoc Committee for Organ Donor Management

Dave Huddleston, Member

CW 57 / CBS 3 TV, News Anchor; Bone Marrow Donor, National Bone Marrow Registry Board

Glen D. Moffett, Esq., Member

Wellspan Health, Vice President & General Counsel

Howard M. Nathan, Ex-officio voting member

Gift of Life Donor Program, President & CEO


Gift of Life Medical Advisory and Policy Board

Marshall Schwartz, MD, Chair

St. Christopher's Hospital for Children

Rohinton Morris, MD, Vice Chair

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Transplant Surgeons from Each Transplant Center:
  • A.I. duPont Hospital for Children – Stephen Dunn, M.D
  • Albert Einstein Medical Center – Radi Zaki, M.D.
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - Peter Abt, M.D.
  • Christiana Care Health Services - S. John Swanson, M.D.
  • Geisinger Medical Center – Chintalapati Varma, M.D.
  • Geisinger Wyoming Valley - Manish Gupta, M.D.
  • Hahnemann University Hospital – Anil Kumar, M.D.
  • Harrisburg Hospital – Harold Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital – Pradip Chakrabarti, M.D.
  • M.S. Hershey Medical Center – Walter Pae, M.D.
  • St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children –Marshall Schwartz, M.D.
  • Temple University Medical Center – John A. Daller, M.D., Ph.D
  • The Lankenau Hospital – James W. Lim, M.D.
  • Thomas Jefferson University Hospital – Cataldo Doria, M.D. Ph.D.
  • University of Pennsylvania Medical Center – Rohinton Morris, M.D.
Hospital Administrators

Sue Chodoff, Corporate Director, Kennedy Health System

Tissue/ Eye Banks

Martha Anderson, Executive Vice President, Donor Services, MTF

ICUs OR Emergency Room

Jennifer Axelband, DO, Critical Care/Emergency Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital & Healthcare Network

Voluntary Health Organization

Laurene Cianfrani, Director of Operations, American Red Cross

Neuroscience Field

Robert H. Rosenwasser, MD, Chair, Dept of Neurological Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson Neuroscience

Histocompatibility Field

Malek Kamoun, MD, PhD, Director of Histocompatibility, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Public Members

Rev. Kenneth Dupree, Funeral Director & Minister, Dupree Funeral Home

Sam P. Gulino, MD, Chief Medical Examiner, City of Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office

Organ donor family member or living donor

Sue McVey Dillon, Donor Mom, Educator and Faculty, Organ Donor Breakthrough Collaborative

Transplant Recipient, Transplant Candidate or Family Member

Gabe Archangelo, Father of Liver Recipient; Husband of Kidney/Pancreas Recipient; and IS Specialist at Christiana Care Health System

Jose Torres, Liver Recipient, Police Officer, City of Camden, NJ

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Lodging and Support

Thousands of patients come to Philadelphia hospitals every year needing life-saving organ transplants. Family House will provide critically needed support programs and temporary lodging for organ transplant patients and their families.

 

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Gift of Life Breaks Record for Life-Saving Organ Donations

More than 400 individuals gave gifts of life through organ and tissue donation in 2009, making this region the most generous in the U.S. and setting a new national record.

 
 
 
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