While primarily committed to patient care, these faculty members are also actively engaged in clinical and laboratory research designed to improve survival and quality of life for kidney transplant recipients. Their goal is to provide the best care and restore each patient to a full and productive life.
The following members of the kidney transplant team are involved in patients' care throughout the transplant process:
Kidney Transplant Surgeons
- Peter L. Abt, MD
- Samir Abu-Gazala, MD
Surgical Director, Living Donor Kidney Transplant
- Kyle Jackson, MD, PhD
- Matthew H. Levine, MD, PhD
- James F. Markmann, MD, PhD
Vice-President, Transplant Services
- Ronald Parsons, MD
Surgical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant
- Elizabeth Sonnenberg, MD
- Clyde F. Barker, MD
- Ali Naji, MD, PhD
Kidney Transplant Nephrologists
- Behdad Besharatian, MD
- Melissa B. Bleicher, MD
- Roy D. Bloom, MD
Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
- Gaia Coppock, MD*
- Simin Goral, MD
- Meera Harhay, MD
- Sabiha Hussain, MD
- Mary Ann Lim, MD
- Amanda Leonberg-Yoo, MD*
Medical Director, Living Donor Kidney Program
- Vishnu Potluri, MD
- Ghazal Quinn, MD*
- Karthik Rangana, MBA, MD
- Nay Seif, MD
- Salma Shaikhouni, MD
- Srijan Tandukar, MD
*Living Donor Nephrologists
Transplant Psychiatry
Advanced Practice Providers
- Chienhui Chiang, CRNP
- Katie Couch, CRNP
- Christine Culkin-Gemmell, DNP, CRNP
- Sarah DiPadova, CRNP
- Gail Eastman, CRNP
- Katie Hummel, CRNP
- Casey Mauger, PA-C
- Stephanie Benko, PA-C
- Kelly Cederquist, MMSc, PA-C
- Casandra Erdman, MS, PA-C
- Georgeine Smith, MS, MHS, PA-C
Pre-Kidney Transplant Coordinators
- Amy Beddow, BSN, RN
- Jennifer Davis, MSN, RN
- Taylor Edelman, BSN, RN
- Vivian Cheng Gavin, BSN, RN
- Maral Palanjian, BSN, RN
- Melissa Parsonson, BSN, RN
- Rita Perry, BSN, RN
- Nicole Ruemeli, BSN, RN
- Ryan Solot, MSN, RN
- Jourdan Wexler, BSN, RN, CCRN
- Melissa Geter, MA
- Tasha Hill, MA
- Troy Crafton, MA
- Jackie Snyder, MA
Post-Kidney Transplant Coordinators
- Saleema Brookins, MHA, BSN, RN
- Valentina Calastri, BSN, RN
- Wanda Gbemudu, MBA, BSN, RN
- Michelle Nakasone, BSN, RN, BC
- Tiana Randall, BSN, RN
- Bernadette Tasker, BSN, RN
- Julie Truong, BSN, RN
- Julie Spaulding, CRNP
- Joan Saunders, MA
- Shana Johnson, MA
- Hena Hamid-Rivera, MA
Social Workers
- Christine Cerra, MSW
- China Coleman, MSW
- Krista E. Kreh, MSW
- Renee Maggiaro, MSW
- Emily Patrick, MSW
- Sandra "Sandy" Aponte Peralta, MSW
- Lauren Tempesta, MSW, LCSW
- Stacey Wallace, MSW
- Basil Pattammady, MSW
- Courtney Bryne, MSW, LCSW
- Elyse Cinquino, MSW
Financial Coordinators
- Tara Koslowski
- Naiphesa Gibson
- Kaomi China
Transplant Nutritionist
- Chelsea Reynolds, MS, RD, LDN
Transplant Pharmacists
- Megan Galle, PharmD
- Greg Malat, PharmD, BCPS, FAST
- Linh Nguyen, PharmD
- Chelsea Sammons, PharmD, BCTXP
Living Donor Advocates
- Vanessa Worzel, MSW
- Cate Patterson, MSW
Living Donor Team
- Ashley Aloba, MSN, RN
- Naeemah Castro, LPN
- Megan Krikke, MS, RN
- Cassandra McGeachey, MSN, RN
- Nasche’t Muir, MSN, RN (Manager, Center for Living Donation)
- Shanaa Wheeler, BSN, RN
- Mary Cate Wilhelm, PA-C
- Colleen Gielda-Smith (Living Donor Patient Navigator)
- Sheriann Broxton, MA
- Latisha Tompkins, MA
- Kameelah Shamsid-Deen, (New Patient Coordinator)
Transplant Outreach Coordinator
Sr. Transplant Physician Liaison
Manager, Transplant Outreach and Communication