Medical Board

The National Kidney Registry's Medical Board is comprised of leaders representing the most innovative and highest volume KPD centers in the United States as well as living donors and transplant recipients. All NKR medical and ethical decisions are governed by policies set by the Medical Board.

Medical Board Members

Robert Montgomery, MD, PhD

Chair NYU Department of Surgery
Director NYU Langone Transplant Institute
Heart Transplant Recipient

Matthew Cooper, MD

NKR Surgical Director

Chief of Transplantation Medical College of Wisconsin
Past President United Network of Organ Sharing

Caroline Jadlowiec, MD

Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant Program Mayo Clinic Arizona

Raja Kandaswamy, MD

Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant Program University of Minnesota
World leader in engineered transplant matching

Amy Waterman, PhD

NKR Research Director

Chair for Clinical Research in Transplant Medicine Houston Methodist Hospital

Michael Cecka, PhD

NKR Lab Director

Professor Emeritus UCLA
Former Director UCLA Immunogenetics Center

Margaret Voges, RN

Chair, NKR Operations Committee

Lead Transplant Coordinator University of Minnesota Medical Center

Karen Miller, RN

Lead Kidney Paired Exchange Coordinator University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dean Pomerleau, PhD

Living Kidney and Liver Donor
Senior Research Scientist (adjunct) Carnegie Mellon University

Amanda Leonberg-Yoo, MD

Medical Director Penn Dialysis Unit
Medical Director, Living Kidney Donor Program University of Pennsylvania Health System

Robert Redfield, MD

Chief, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery University of California Irvine School of Medicine

Cody Maynard

Living Kidney Donor
Director of Strategy Evergreen Nephrology
Past Men’s Division Champion Donor Games

Jeffrey Veale, MD

Director UCLA Kidney Transplantation Exchange Program
Two-time recipient of the Terasaki Medical Innovation Award

Clark Kensinger, MD

Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Piedmont Transplant Institute

Jennifer Verbesey, MD

Director, Kidney Transplant Program MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute

Jessica Coleman, RN

Lead Kidney Paired Exchange Coordinator AdventHealth Transplant Institute at Porter

Chris Freise, MD

Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant UCSF Medical Center

Kari Rancourt

Living Kidney Donor
Lead Kidney Paired Exchange Coordinator Hartford Hospital

Mikel Prieto, MD

Kidney Donor & Recipient Surgeon Mayo Clinic Rochester

Massimo Mangiola, PhD

Lab Director NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Sandip Kapur, MD

Chief of Kidney Transplant NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Matt Freund

Kidney for Life Kidney Transplant Recipient

Stuart Flechner, MD

Professor Emeritus of Surgery/Urology Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine