Advisory Board
The CORE Advisory Board is composed of 22 to 25 members and must include professionals from transplant centers, intensive care or emergency departments, tissue banks, voluntary health organizations, hisocompatibility members, neuroscience physicians, transplant surgeons, chief medical directors, medical directors of an eye bank, organ donor families, and public members. The board meets biannually.
Joseph Africa, MD
Medical Director
Charleston Area Medical Center
Stephen H. Bailey, MD
Director, Cardiac Surgery
Allegheny Health Network
Thomas V. Cacciarelli, MD
Director, Liver Transplant Program
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Robert C. Dolence
Transplant Recipient Representative
David J. Gabauer
Beaver County Coroner/Funeral Director
Armando Ganoza, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
Aimee Hagerty
Clinical Director & Administrator of the Transplant Program
UPMC Hamot
Ajai Khanna, MD
Professor of Surgery
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Lindsey Herlinger
Transplant Administrator
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Roheena Kamyar, MD
Co-Medical Director of Eye Bank
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Jennifer Knight, MD
Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program
West Virginia University; Ruby Memorial Hospital
Roberto Lopez-Solis, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
Glen Martin
Associate Administrator
Charleston Area Medical Center/General Hospital
Hall T. McGee, MD
Medical Director of the Eye Bank
CORE
Douglas Mitchell
Interim VP/CNO
WVU Medicine
Matthew R. Morrell, MD
Medical Director
CORE
Valliammai Muthappan, MD
Corneal Surgeon; Cataract and Eye Consultants
Sightline Ophthalmic Associates
Reshma Paranjpe
Cornea, External Disease and Refractive Surgery
Allegheny Ophthalmic and Orbital Associates
Frederick Peterson
Public Representative
The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
Diane Pidwell, PhD
Director, Histocompatibility Laboratory
Allegheny General Hospital
Duke Rupert
COO & Transplant Administrator
Allegheny General Hospital
Kathleen K. Ryan
Executive Director and Legal Counsel
Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association
Richard Plowey, MD, MPH
Keystone Pain Consultants
Gina Velar
Donor Family Representative
William R. Wagner, PhD
Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Travis Watson
Transplant Program Administrator
UPMC Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
M. Asad Zaman, MHA
Director, Transplant Services
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh