The New York State Committee

The New York State Committee

  • Chair David Conti, M.D.
    Professor of Surgery, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
  • Francis L. Delmonico, M.D.
    Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Director, Renal Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Nancy Dubler, J.D, L.L.B
    Director, Division of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Professor of Bioethics, Department of Epidemiology & Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY
  • Nancy Fraser, M.S.W., C.S.W, A.C.S.W.
    Social Worker, Renal Transplant Program, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
  • Elizabeth A. Pomfret, M.D., Ph. D.
    Assistant Professor of Surgery, Tufts University, School of Medicine Director, Live Donor Liver Transplant Program, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA
  • John R. Lake, M.D.
    Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Director, Gastroenterology Division, Director of Liver Transplantation Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  • Marlene Marciniak
    Liver Donor, North Tonawanda, NY
  • J. Michael Millis, M.D.
    Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief, Section of Transplantation Surgery, Director, Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary, Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Ronnie Schwartz
    Liver Transplant Recipient, New York, NY
  • Mark Simon
    Executive Director, Upstate New York Transplant Services, Buffalo, NY
  • Owen Surman, M.D.
    Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Psychiatric Consultant to the Transplant Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Michele White, R.N.
    New York State Nurses Association, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY

    • Representative of New York State Facilities with Live Donor Liver Transplant Programs

  • Adel Bozorgzadeh, M.D.
    Director, Solid Organ Transplantation, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
  • Jean Emond, M.D.
    Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Surgery, Vice Chairman and Chief of Transplantation Services, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Leona Kim-Schluger, M.D.
    Chief, Adult Liver Transplantation Medicine, Recanati/Miller Transplant Institute Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
  • Patricia Ann Sheiner, M.D.
    Director, Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
  • Lewis Teperman, M.D.
    Director of Transplantation, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY

Ex Officio

  • Jack Kress
    Executive Director, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Hui Hsing Wong, M.D., J.D.
    Operations and Analysis Branch, Division of Transplantation, Office of Special Programs Health Resources and Services Administration

    • New York State Department of Health Staff

  • Wayne M. Osten
    Director, Office of Health Systems Management
  • Lisa M. Wickens, R.N.
    Assistant Director, Office of Health Systems Management
  • Lisa McMurdo, R.N., M.P.H.
    Project Director, Division of Health Care Standards and Surveillance
  • Marjory Scarlet Simmons
    Acting Director, Bureau of Standards Development
  • Kimberly Valente, R.N.
    Health Policy Associate, Bureau of Standards Development
  • Frederick Heigel
    Director, Bureau of Hospital and Primary Care Services
  • Anne M. Anzola
    Bureau of Standards Development
  • Judy L. Doesschate, Esq.
    Division of Legal Affairs
  • Nancy Nusca, R.N.
    Management Fellow
  • Charles Bonsu
    Management Fellow
  • Lisa Thomson
    Bureau of Standards Development
  • Patricia A. Lewis
    Bureau of Standards Development