NKDO Leadership
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Matthew Harmody
Chairman, non-directed kidney donor
Email: m.harmody@nkdomentor.org
Joe Haynie
Board Member, non-directed kidney donor
Ryan Meehan
Board Member, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, National Kidney Registry
Debi Kahn
Board Member, living kidney donor
Victoria Threadgould
Director of Grants, Ascension Seton Foundation, non-directed kidney and liver donor
William Maixner
Board Member, Sr. National Director, Transplant Clinical Transformation, DaVita, Inc.
STAFF
Emily Polet-Monterosso
Executive Director and living kidney donor
Email: e.polet-monterosso@nkdo.org
Sarah Benson
Team Lead, Volunteer Mentor Team and living kidney donor
Email: s.benson@nkdomentor.org
MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD
Abigail Marsh
PhD, Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University
Kari Rancourt
RN, BSN, CCTC, Living Kidney Donor and Living Donor Transplant Coordinator at Hartford Hospital
Anthony Watkins
MD, FACS, Surgical Director of Kidney Transplant at Tampa General Hospital
Amanda Leonberg-Yoo
MD, Nephrologist and Medical Director of the Living Kidney Donor Program, Penn Transplant Institute
Farrah Desrosiers
LCSW, CCTSW, Senior Social Worker, and Independent Living Donor Advocate at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center