Madeline Knoff, MPH, serves as Manager of Hospital and Partner Relations at Iowa Donor Network, where she leads a team focused on strengthening collaboration and improving processes across Iowa’s healthcare partners. With nearly 11 years of experience in organ and tissue donation, she began her career in tissue recovery before transitioning into hospital services, where she developed a passion for partner engagement and outreach.
Madeline was the first Hospital Services Coordinator at Iowa Donor Network, helping establish a structured approach to hospital relations across the state. She has played a key role in several organizational initiatives, including implementation of A-NRP, development of organ clinical triggers, and the launch of the Donor Care Unit model. Under her leadership, her multidisciplinary team has implemented an electronic referral application for out-of-hospital partners, developed a recognition program for EMS professionals, and launched a hospice referral program that integrates donation education into the hospice admission process. She also serves as a Hospital Development Subject Matter Expert on the AOPO IMPACT Committee.
She was nominated for The Alliance 40 Under 40 by Sarah Jaschen, Director of Promote the Gift at Iowa Donor Network. Jaschen highlighted Madeline’s decade of work building net-forward partnerships inside and outside the organization, from implementing new clinical triggers to launching a workgroup for Medical Examiner Investigators.