WINNERS

ABSTRACTS &

HECKENKEMPER LEADER IN

TRANSPLANT ADMINISTRATION

Category 1

Cost Reduction/Increase in Work

Efficiency/Patient Care Safety Programs

Sponsored by

The LifeTrac Network

Path to Becoming a High Reliability

Organization Using Process

Improvement and Employee

Engagement

Cecilia Pemberton, MBA, Anne Marie Kuzma, MSN, RN, CCTC, Edward Strouse, MSN, RN, Anthony Suliveras, MBA, Natasha Toland, MBA, Marianne

Butler-Lebair, MS, RN, CCTC, Sherry Mazer, MBA, MT (ASCP), CPHQ, FACHE

Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Category 2

Quality Assurance/Improvement/

Transplant Pharmacoeconomics

Sponsored by

OTTR Chronic Care Solutions

Implementation of Discharge Phone

Calls in Liver Transplant Patients to

Reduce Readmission Rates

Harrison Pollinger, DO, Roshan Shrestha, MD, Christopher Fowler, PhD, MBA, RN, Bonnie Fricke, BSN, RN, Wendy Peavy, MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CCRN-CSC, Cerise Wotorson, BSN, RN, Shannon

Daniel, MSN, RN, CCRN

Piedmont Transplant Institute, Atlanta, GA

Category 3

Revenue Management/Optimizing

Profitability

Sponsored by

Transplant Management Group,

LLC

Cost Modeling and Global Reimbursement

Analysis in the Medical Group: Establishing

the Reimbursement to Cost Ratio for the

Heart Transplant Surgery Practice

Scott Kihoi, MS, Rosalie Blaeuer, BSBA, Mark Valadez, BA, Jennifer Merrill, BS, Kate Kenemer,

BA, Fred Tibayan, MD, Leasa Keene, Howard Song, MD, PhD

Oregon Health & Science University, Portland

Category 4

Transplant Center Initiatives to Increase

Organ Donation

Sponsored by

TeleResults Corporation

Expanding the Lung Donor Pool

Using Innovative Technology,

Dedicated Procurement Staff and

Management Collaboration

Gail Frankle, DHN, RN, CPTC

University of Minnesota Health,

Minneapolis

Category 5

Transplant Data: Analysis, Reporting

and Research

Sponsored by

Management Science Associates

Pre-Transplant Monitoring Program to

Improve Waitlist Mortality

Colleen Cook, BSN, RN, CCTC, Stacey Doll, MPA, George Makar, MD, MSCE, Dawn Drazek,

BSN, RN, CCTC, Rebecca Farrell, BSN, RN, CCTN

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Best of the Best

Sponsored by

AST Transplant Administrators

Community of Practice

Continuous Improvement PDCAs for

Decreasing Time to Listing

Zeynep Tulu, MS, MEMP, Marcella Twamley, Shermeka Arrington, Nicole Stock, Gwen Dusek, RN, BSN, Colleen Frazier, RN, BSN, CCTC, Megan Zink, RN BSN, Dawn St. Louis, RN, BSN, Karin True, MD,

Tomasz Kozlowksi, MD, Randall Detwiler, MD

University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill

2015 Heckenkemper Leader in

Transplant Administration Award

Tracy Giacoma, RN, MSN, MBA,

FACHE

Methodist Medical Center, Dallas, TX

2016 TMF Call for Abstracts

• Plenary, concurrent, mini-oral or poster

presentations

April 22 – August 17, 2015

• Poster presentations only

January 18, 2016

• All abstracts considered for award