Boards
Two types of boards provide oversight and advice for the work of New England Donor Services. The Board of Trustees (which also serves as the Board of Trustees for New England Organ Bank) is responsible for the governance, overall direction and financial stability of the organization. The NEOB Clinical Advisory Board provides advice and makes recommendations regarding clinical protocols, quality systems and policies.
Board of Trustees
Khalilah Brown-Dean, PhD.
Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean is Executive Director of The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life at Wesleyan University. Previous to her current position she served as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac University. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from The University of Virginia. She received the Henry R. Spencer Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Fannie Lou Hamer Outstanding Community Service Award, and was named one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Higher Education by Diverse Magazine.
Dr. Brown-Dean is the author of Identity Politics in the United States which traces the confluence of public policy, law, and institutional design in structuring contemporary political divisions. Her newest book, Protesting Vulnerability: Race and Pandemic Politics, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Her publications appear in numerous scholarly and popular outlets focusing on civic engagement, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, criminal justice, felon disenfranchisement, and the politics of mental health. She is a highly sought after political analyst with contributions to The Washington Post, MSNBC, L.A. Times, Fox News Radio, NPR and other outlets. She hosts the weekly Connecticut Public Radio show and podcast, Disrupted.
Dr. Brown-Dean is passionate about inclusive community development and is the Immediate Past Board Chair of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. It is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the United States, and the largest grant maker in a twenty town region. She currently serves as Chair of the Greater New Haven COVID 19 Community Fund.
I. Glenn Cohen, JD
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics
Glenn Cohen is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics. He is a recognized expert on the intersection of bioethics and the law, as well as health law and his current projects relate to big data, health information technologies, mobile health, research ethics, organ transplantation and medical tourism.
He is the author of more than 150 articles and chapters and is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of more than 15 books. He created the free online bioethics class through Harvard X and to date, more than 83,000 students have taken the course.
Prior to becoming a professor, he served as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division. He is one of three editors-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and serves on the editorial board for the American Journal of Bioethics. He is currently a member of the Ethics Committee of the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
Hon. Geoffrey Crawford
Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont
Hon. Geoffrey Crawford is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. Prior to his appointment he served as the Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and as a Judge of the Vermont Superior Court. Judge Crawford is a donor family member.
Sunil Eappen, MD, MBA
President and CEO of the University of Vermont Health Network
Dr. Sunny Eappen currently serves as the President and CEO of the University of Vermont Health Network, where he oversees 6 hospitals including the University of Vermont Medical Center, 5 community hospitals, the Home Health and Hospice resource, a pediatric hospital and a Cancer Center with over 1600 beds covering a million patients in Vermont and Northern New York state. He previously served as the Interim President and the Chief Medical Officer at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He previously served as Chief of Anesthesiology and CMO at the Mass Eye and Ear, and Board member at the BWH and CRICO.
Dr. Eappen earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his MD from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine and his MBA from the Yale University School of Management. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Eappen has numerous published articles and is national speaker on the utility of surgical checklist implementation in order to reduce surgical complications, optimizing OR efficiency, and change management. In addition to serving as CEO, Eappen is also Clinical Professor of Anesthesia at University of Vermont Larner School of Medicine.
Marisol Feliciano
Coordinator, Violence and Injury Prevention Program, Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center
Marisol Feliciano is the Violence and Injury Prevention Program Coordinator for the Department of Trauma/Surgery at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut since 2006. Ms. Feliciano has been a Nationally Certified Child Passenger Safety Bilingual Lead Instructor since 2004 and a CPS technician since 2001.
Valerie Fleishman
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Mass Health and Hospital Association
Valerie Fleishman is the Chief Innovation Officer at the Mass Health and Hospital Association. Prior to this role she was Executive Director of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI). Valerie is a seasoned health care and nonprofit leader with over 20 years’ experience in health care, health policy, health technology and innovation. Valerie is the parent of a liver transplant recipient.
Mary Gallagher
Mary Gallagher’s 25-year career in financial services includes private sector experience in institutional equity and currency sales trading roles at Morgan Stanley, State Street and Deutsche Bank before she shifted focus to the public sector as a financial regulator. In the past decade, Ms. Gallagher has served in chief operating officer and commissioner roles leading the state agency responsible for regulatory oversight of financial service providers to Massachusetts consumers. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard College and currently resides in Boston. She is sister to both a transplant recipient and donor.
Heung Bae Kim, MD
Vice-Chair of Surgery for Clinical Operation; Director, Pediatric Transplant Center, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Heung Bae Kim, MD is a pediatric transplant surgeon, Director of the Pediatric Transplant Center and Vice-Chair of Surgery for Clinical Operations at Boston Children’s Hospital where he holds the Weitzman Family Chair in Surgical Innovation. Dr. Kim is also a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Membership and Professional Standards Committee at UNOS.
Lindsay A. Martin, MSPH
Founder, I-Squared Consulting Group; Instructor, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health, Department. of Health Policy & Management and Faculty, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Lindsay A. Martin, MSPH, is a healthcare improvement and innovation leader dedicated to system design, improvement, and innovation. She founded I-Squared Consulting Group and works with government entities, healthcare systems, and community organizations to advance the role of quality and safety within health systems and across populations. Ms. Martin is an instructor in the department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she teaches quality improvement in healthcare. In addition, she is faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Prior to her current roles, Ms. Martin was the Executive Director of Innovation at IHI where she oversaw IHI’s Innovation process, working to find new solutions to difficult problems in health care and bringing those solutions into prototype testing. Ms. Martin received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Georgetown University.
Janice A. Mayforth, CPA
Sr. Director, Clinical Financial Planning and Decision Support for Baystate Health, Inc., and Interim Chief Financial Officer Baystate Wing Hospital
Janice A. Mayforth, CPA serves as the Sr. Director, Clinical Financial Planning and Decision Support for Baystate Health, Inc., and Interim Chief Financial Officer Baystate Wing Hospital where she previously served in several other roles including Director, Financial Planning and Management Systems, Director of Finance, Nursing and Clinical Services and a Project Manager for Financial Analysis.
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Judith Laich Pepe, MD
Senior Associate Director, Surgical Critical Care, Hartford Hospital
Judith Laich Pepe, MD is a critical care surgeon and has held several executive leadership and clinical roles at Hartford Hospital. She is currently the Senior Associate Director, Surgical Critical Care at Hartford Hospital. Dr. Pepe is also an Associate Professor of Surgery and Assistant Professor of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine at University of Connecticut Health Center and University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She also served as the Chair, LCDS Board of Trustees.
Rob Skinner
Executive Managing Director and the U.S. Head of Valuation & Advisory Group, Cushman & Wakefield
Rob Skinner is an Executive Managing Director and the U.S. Head of Cushman & Wakefield’s Valuation & Advisory Group. In this capacity, he oversees a team of 550 professionals and all requisite valuation activities throughout the United States. Prior to his leadership roles, Rob earned both his MAI and RICS designations as a commercial real estate appraiser. He specialized in multi-family assets, CBD office and life science product as well as proposed mixed-use developments. Additionally, he was a member of C&W’s Dispute Analysis & Litigation Practice where he provided litigation, arbitration and expert witness services. He received his BS in Landscape Design & Horticulture from the University of Connecticut and his MBA from Boston University. He is both a living donor and a member of a donor family.
Kevin Smith
Former Healthcare System Chief Executive Officer, Winchester Healthcare Management
Kevin Smith retired as Chief Executive Officer of Winchester Healthcare Management, Inc. and Winchester Hospital, where he previously served in several executive roles, including Executive Vice President for Administration and Finance, and Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer. Earlier in his career, Mr. Smith worked as a healthcare consultant advising clients in the health care industry. Mr. Smith currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Winchester Healthcare Management, the parent organization of Winchester Hospital and its affiliates; the Board of Trustees of Care Dimensions, a non-profit provider of hospice and palliative care services in Eastern Massachusetts; and the Board of Directors of Reading Cooperative Bank.
Frederick J. Sorbo, III
Vice President of Budgeting and Financial Planning Hartford HealthCare
Frederick J. Sorbo, III retired from Hartford HealthCare in Hartford Connecticut where he served as the Vice President of Budgeting and Financial Planning. In his role, he was responsible for the development and monitoring of annual operating and capital budgets in addition to financial planning development for the organization. Mr. Sorbo previously held various finance positions, including Chief Financial Officer, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Prior to joining Mount Sinai Hospital, Mr. Sorbo was employed as an Audit Supervisor by Ernst & Whinney in Hartford, Connecticut.
David Trull
Former President and CEO of Faulkner Hospital
David received his BA from the University of Notre Dame and subsequently received his MBA from Cornell University. His career began at Tufts Medical Center. For the last ten years of his twenty one year tenure, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the Medical Center. In 1994 he was appointed President and CEO of Faulkner Hospital. He led the process that resulted in Faulkner becoming a part of BWH in 1998. He retired after eighteen years at Faulkner. David lives in Wellesley with his wife, Cindy, and has two daughters who attend the University of Virginia.
New England Organ Bank Clinical Advisory Board
Francis L. Delmonico, MD
(Chief Medical Officer, New England Donor Services)
Mohamed Akoad, MD
Ayyaz Ali, MD
Mark Baymon
Laurine Bow, PhD
Jeffrey Cooper, MD
Gregory Couper, MD
Alex Cuenca, MD
Michael Daily, MD
David D’Alessandro, MD
Devin Eckhoff, MD
Nahel Elias, MD
Francis Fynn-Thompson, MD
Martin Hertl, MD
Catherine Hosley, MD
Allen Hsiao, MD
David Y. Hwang, MD
Aki Itoh, MD, PhD
Sanjay Kulkarni, MD
George Lipkowitz, MD
Laurie Loiacono, MD
Kenneth McPartland, MD
Edgar L. Milford, MD
Paul Morrissey, MD
Glyn Morgan, MD
Babek Movahedi, MD
David Mulligan, MD
Ellen Sheehy
William Tomford, MD
Stefan Tullius, MD
Nancy Tyson-Alexander
Juan Palma Vargas, MD
Ann Woolley, MD
New England Donor Services Tissue Advisory Board
Ann Bajart, MD
Michael J. Bauer, MD
Tom Buckley
Nicoletta Fynn-Thompson, MD
William Tomford, MD