Leadership
Meet Our Leadership Team
Charles “Charlie” Alexander
President & Chief Executive Officer
Debbie Williams
Executive Vice President & Chief Operations Officer
Kenneth “Kenny” Boyd
Vice President & Chief Business Development Officer
Debbi McRann
Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer
Jaclyn “Jackie” Quackenbush
Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer
Meet Our Directors
Tiffany Arrington
Director, Business Intelligence
Christine Crone
Director, Quality Systems
Emily Cullen
Senior Director, Hospital Services & Organ Family Services
Jecoliah Daniels
Director, Communications & Marketing
Gary Holmes
Director, Processing & Operational Logistics
Ieesha Johnson
Director, Community Outreach
Catherine “Kate” LoVerdi
Director, Donor Services Center
Ondray Muhammad
Director, Information Technology
Leslie Reed
Director of Compensation & Benefits
Governing Board of Trustees
Charles Alexander
President
President & Chief Executive Officer, Infinite Legacy
Robert Atlas
Board Chair
Principal, Grace Creek Advisors
Vickie Cosby
Board Vice Chair
Retired Senior Vice President, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Thomas Kaufman, Esq.
Board Treasurer
Principal, Montfort Fiduciary Advisors; Adjunct Professor of Corporate Governance, George Mason University
Shelly McDonald Pinkett, MD
Board Secretary
Department of Medicine, Howard University
Christa Gahagan
Living Donor; Retired from EMJAY Engineering and Construction Co., Inc.
Kevin Harlen
Retired President, GastroGPO — a Specialty Networks Company
Kristin Jones Bryce
Senior Vice President and Chief External Affairs Officer, University of Maryland Medical System
Michelle Lee
Former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, University of Maryland Medical System
Christopher Michetti, MD, FACS, FCCM
Chief of Trauma, Trauma Medical Director, University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center
Tanjala Purnell, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Founding Director of The BOLD Health Equity Initiative, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Daniel Tang, MD
Director, Cardiothoracic Transplantation Program, Inova Transplant Center
Alauna J. Vallot, Esq.
Living Donor; Director, Legal & Regulatory Compliance, Fannie Mae
Flavia Walton, PhD
Living Donor; President, Walton & Associates Consulting Services
Advisory Board
Maria Bettinotti, PhD
Board Chair
Associate Professor and Director of the Immunogenetics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Richard Benson, MD, PhD
Board Vice Chair
Director, Office of Global Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health
Chandra Shekhar Bhati, MD
Board Secretary
Professor or Surgery, Division of Transplantation Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center
Keki Balsara, MD
Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute; Professor of Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine
Brian Childs, PhD
Professor of Bioethics and Professionalism, Chair Dept Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Mercer University School of Medicine; Ethics Consultant for Infinite Legacy
Carnell Cooper, MD
Surgical Critical Care, University of Maryland Prince Georges Hospital Center; Tissue Medical Director, Infinite Legacy
Manan Desai, MD
Director, VAD and Heart Transplant, Cardiac Surgeon, Children’s National Hospital
Maurice B. Fluitt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Howard University Department of Medicine
Jose M. Figuerio
Director, Kidney and Pancreas Division, Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute
Sharon Weeks Groh, MD
Abdominal and Transplant Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Surgical Director, Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
George Herrera
Executive Vice President, MTF Biologics
Douglas “DJ” Jordan
Transplant Recipient; Retired Master Sergeant from the United States Air Force
Jeff Joyner, MHA, FACHE
President, Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center
Keith Melancon, MD
Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Transplantation, Director of Transplant, George Washington University Hospital
Anne O’Reilly, RN, CDN
Director, Clinical Services, Hospital Services, DaVita Kidney Care
Ahmad Safra, MD
Section Chief, Abdominal Transplant Surgery & Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, Inova Fairfax Hospital
Lisa Spicknall
Executive Director, Donate Life Maryland
Sonia Taylor
Donor Family Member; Cornea Recipient; Second Chance II, LLC; Director, Electronic Security Services, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Francis Tinney Jr., MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Carlos Fernandez-Bueno, MD
Surgical Director, Infinite Legacy
Nader Habashi, MD
Medical Director, Infinite Legacy
Jackie Honig, MD
Medical Director, Infinite Legacy
Sreedhar Chamala, MD
Recovery Surgeon, Infinite Legacy
Debbi McRann
Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Infinite Legacy