Megan has worked in the organ transplant and donation field for close to 20 years. She began her career on the donor side as a procurement transplant coordinator at One Legacy in Los Angeles. In 2006, Megan transitioned to working on the recipient side as an on-call kidney and liver transplant coordinator at UCLA. In 2017, she joined Keck USC as the manager of organ allocation and donor triage. In this role, Megan developed and implemented an on-call team that handles call for all solid organ programs at USC. This experience gave Megan the opportunity to learn organ allocation and clinical management of all potential transplant patients and she continued in this role until July of 2021 when she moved into the role of Director of Clinical Operations at Keck USC. Megan currently oversees the clinical operations for all solid organ programs, working directly with the physician and surgeon leadership team, nurse managers and nurses. Megan is finishing up her acute care nurse practitioner degree from Vanderbilt and will graduate in July of this year. She has a passion for organ transplant and in particular working with her teams to determine ways to ensure every organ is utilized.
2025 SRTR Annual Session: Using SRTR Data to Monitor Transplant Program Performance
The Alliance Conversation Series brings you cost-free, fast-paced collaborative opportunities that highlight successful donation and transplantation practices across the country. Through shared insight, multidisciplinary experts identify solutions to critical challenges affecting the community of practice and actively share them for open discussion and broader knowledge of effective practices.
The sessions encourage real-time feedback and participation from viewers.
Overview: This conversation series will focus on providing information to transplant program quality professionals on the various performance metrics made available by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, with particular focus on the new metrics. The participant will learn where these metrics are made available or will be made available and will get a high-level overview of how to find and interpret the risk adjustment models that are used to adjust transplant performance metrics for candidate, recipient, and donor characteristics. After the core presentation, virtual breakout rooms will be set up to use the tools for your own centers and programs; individuals from SRTR will be available to assist you.
