Karleen DeGroodt is a registered nurse and heart/lung transplant coordinator for Cedars Sinai. She started her nursing career working bedside in the Neuro ICU at UC Irvine Medical Center and soon worked as a procurement transplant coordinator on the donor side with a Southern California OPO for 11 years. Eventually, she wanted to pursue the recipient side of donation and joined the heart/lung transplant team at Cedars Sinai. Karleen has a Masters of Nursing in education and is currently working on her Doctorate in public health. When she isn’t working or in school, Karleen can be found at the beach with her family surfing and running around Huntington Beach.
Maximizing Clinical Productivity by Improving Community Collaboration
Thursday, January 26, 2023, at 3:00pm
Historically transplant centers and OPOs have had a tumultuous relationship working against each other instead of towards to same common goal of getting patients off the transplant list and supporting donor families. This talk will discuss this relationship as well as proven strategies to help improve communication, collaboration, and collegiality. In the past two years Cedars Sinai and Lifesharing have actively worked on their collaboration, which has resulted in numerous successes that would have been impossible without being aware of each other’s needs.
