McKee, Katie Mayo Clinic

Katie McKee

MPH
Job Title: Operations Administrator
Organization: Mayo Clinic

Katie McKee serves as transplant administrator for the Mayo Clinic Transplant Center in Rochester, MN. In this role, she supports incredible teams serving patients through solid organ transplant, bone marrow transplant, VCA and regenerative medicine. She is grateful for experiences working in organ donation with LifeSource, the organ procurement organization serving the upper Midwest, and hospital and surgical administrative leadership at HealthPartners in the Twin Cities.

Katie currently serves as Chair of The Alliance National Donation Leadership Council and as treasurer of several local public health boards. She is inspired by leaders across the entire donation & transplantation community working together on behalf of patients and donor families, and by The Alliance who continues to drive meaningful collaboration. She completed her master’s degree in public health from Columbia and administrative fellowship at Mayo Clinic.

Professional Information

Patient Groups: Adult, Pediatric & Neonatal
Areas of Practice: Adult, In-patient, Living Donation, Outreach, Pediatric & Neonatal, Post-transplant, Pre-Transplant, Procurement
Organs of Expertise: Eye, Heart, Intestine, Islet Cells, Kidney, Liver, Lung, Pancreas, Small Bowel, Tissue, Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA)
Connections to the Cause: Donor Family, Living Donor

Testimonial: The Alliance is an inspiring leadership model for collaboration and community advancement at their best. The connections the Alliance fosters and promotes strengthen the community of donation and transplantation. The tools and education the Alliance develops and broadly shares are extremely relevant to the each part of the community. My team and I reference them often and share them especially with hospital partners on a regular basis.

Alliance Presentations

ConversationSeries Contracts

From Contracts to Care: Insights from Mayo Clinic’s Contracting and Practice Approach

Tuesday, February 03, 2026, at 2:00pm

This session will explore how Mayo Clinic’s contracting strategy and clinical practice model work in concert to advance patient-centered, high-value care. The presentation will highlight Model of Care elements—including patient-focused multi-site listing and integrated prior authorization workflows—and describe how these capabilities support aligned relationships with payers and employers.

We will comment on the promise of technology, contracting, and practice innovation collectively enhancing access, quality, and efficiency, and a few lessons learned from our AI exploration to date. A patient story will ground these concepts in real-world experience, followed by time for discussion and questions.

Lifelong Networks

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