th 20 The Annual UNOS Transplant Management Forum

th 20 The Annual UNOS Transplant Management Forum April 25 -27, 2012

WINNERS

1 st Annual Deedle Heckenkemper Leader in Transplant Administration Award Edward Zavala, MBA Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN

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Category 1 Cost Reduction/Increase in Work Efficiency/Patient Care Safety Programs Sponsored by Life. Trac Network

Clinical Care Triad: A Team “Workout” to Facilitate Safe Patient Discharge Zeynep Tulu, MS, MEMP, Tom Caffey, MBA, CSSBB, CQE, Tracy Carroll, BSN, RN, PCCN, David Gerber, MD, Jessica Hawn, RN, BSN, Lisa Jurgevich, MSW, LCSW, Juanita Parker, BSN, RN, MBA, MHA, Leonie Vachon, A/GNP-BC University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

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Category 2 Quality Assurance/Improvement/ Transplant Pharmacoeconomics Sponsored by OTTR Chronic Care Solutions

Reduction of Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Readmissions Due to Heart Failure and Arrhythmia Danielle Miller, RN, BSN, Stephanie Hoppin, RN, BSN, Tracie Rivet, Wil Sutton, Mandy Bowen, RN, Tracy Vernon-Platt, NP, Ian Hollis, Pharm. D, Randy Watkins, BSEE, SSBB University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

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Category 3 Transplant Administration in General Sponsored by Transplant Communications/ Transplant News

Volume-Outcome Trends in Mortality of Orthotopic Liver Transplant Centers Valeriya Kettelhut, MD, MPH, CMQ, Preethy Nayer, MD, Ph. D The Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

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Category 4 Revenue Management/Optimizing Profitability Sponsored by Transplant Management Group, LLC

The Living Donor SAC: A Compliant, Commonsense Approach to Billing Another Transplant Program for Living Donor Services Gwen Mc. Natt, RN, MS, CNN, FNP-BC, Jason Skrzypinski, BS, MBA, Stephen Nelson, BA Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

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Category 5 Transplant Center Initiatives to Increase Organ Donation Sponsored by Life. Link of Puerto Rico

Using Multiple Modalities to Increase Living Donation Opportunities Randal Detwiler, MD, Deborah Erickson, RN, MSN, Ph. D, Eddie Fuller III, MD, Lauren Kearns, MSN, RNBC, Ann Litts, RN, BSN, CCTC, Tomasz Kozlowski, MD, Yara Park, MD, Alex Toledo, MD, Zeynep Tulu, MS, MEMP University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

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Category 6 Transplant Data: Analysis, Reporting and Research Sponsored by Management Science Associates, Inc.

Improving Data Capture in a Large Metropolitan Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Program Meredith Aull, Pharm. D, Paul Murphy, Paul Sonder, Kathleen Erbacher, MPA, Stefanie Goldberg, Sandip Kapur, MD New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

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BEST of the BEST Sponsored by AST Transplant Administrators Community of Practice

HLA Monitoring is an Effective Tool for Transplant Program Cost Reduction and Improved Waitlist Management Tamra Grote, RN, BSN, Hirohito Ichii, MD, Ph. D, Eric Belen, BSIE, MBA, Jon Le, BS, Eileen Polito, RN, BSN, Clarence Foster III, MD, FACS University of California Irvine, Orange, CA

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