Dr. Julie Ho, FRCPC
Medical Director, Transplant Manitoba
Krista Maxwell, RN, BN, BSc, MSc
Manager, Transplant Manitoba
Triiaana Furlong
Administrative Assistant
Nancy Dodd, P.Eng
Process Quality Engineer
Tish Best
Communications Specialist
Staff
Transplant Manitoba - Gift of Life's team of doctors, nurses and professional staff is dedicated to providing care to patients pre- and post-transplant in Manitoba.
Management and Administration
Gift of Life Program
Transplant Manitoba - Gift of Life's team of doctors, nurses and professional staff is dedicated to providing care to organ donors and promoting organ donation awareness in Manitoba.
Dr. Owen Mooney, FRCPC
Medical Director
Dr. Heather Smith, Dr. Marcus Blouw, Dr. Faisal Siddiqui, FRCSC, Dr. Carmen Hrymak and Dr. Murdoch Leeies
Donor Physicians
Dr. Leroy Storsley, FRCPC
Director, Living Kidney Donation
Dr. Juliano Offerni, DRCPSC
Living Donor surgeon
Mark Barrett, RN, BN, Brad Penner, RN, BN and Tricia Carta, RN, MN
Donor Coordinators
Camille Boucher, RN, BSc, MScN
Living Kidney Donor Coordinator, On-call Donor Coordinator
Miranda Lindsay, RN BN, Alannah Ziesmann, RN, BN, Julie Gratton Edwards, RN, BN and Jacqueline Thiele, RN, BN
On-call Donor Coordinators
Lindsay McCormac, RN, BSc
Living Kidney Donor Coordinator
Beverley Veldkamp
Living Kidney Donor Program Unit Clerk
Adult Heart Transplant Program
Dr. Allan Schaffer, FRCP(C)
Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplant Program
Dr. N. Ghorpade, FRCSC
Medical Director, Cardiac Surgery & Director, Surgical Heart Failure Program
Dr. A. Didi
Transplant Physician
Dr. A. Fagan and Dr. T. Kandeel
Cardiac Surgeons
Shari Barker, RN, BSN
Heart Transplant/VAD Coordinator
Adult Kidney Transplant Program
Dr. James Shaw, FRCPC
Medical Director
Dr. Martin Karpinski, FRCPC, Dr. Peter Nickerson, FRCPC, Dr. Chris Wiebe, FRCPC, Dr. Aaron Trachtenberg, FRCPC, Dr. Christie Rampersad, FRCPC and Dr. Julie Ho, FRCPC
Transplant Nephrologists
Dr. Joshua Koulack, FRCPC
Director, Renal Transplant Surgery
Dr. Gregory Harding, FRCSC
Transplant Surgeon
Dr. Ronn Johnson
Transplant Psychologist
Dr. Alexandra Kuzyk, MD
Transplant Dermatologist
Julie Gratton Edwards, RN, BN, Miranda Lindsay, RN, BN, Jacqueline Thiele, RN, BN and Alannah Ziesmann, RN, BN
Renal Recipient Coordinators
Cheryl Kalupar, RN, Brenda Gawryluk, RN, Michele Couture, RN, BN, Christine Dandan, RN, BN and Amber Paziuk, RN, BN
Clinic Nurses
Kristin Vincent, BA, BSW, RSW
Social Worker
Siyao Sun, BSPharm and Hailey Lincoln, BSPharm, PharmD
Pharmacists
Renee Schettler, RD
Clinical Dietitian
Devon Peters and Stephanie Yalung
Post-transplant Unit Clerks
Denielle Lopez
Clerk II
Vanessa Yalung
Pre-transplant Unit Clerk
Liver Transplant Program
Dr. David Peretz, Msc, Bsc, FRCP(c), FACP
Medical Director, Manitoba Liver Transplant Program
Dr. Nabiha Faisal
Liver Transplant Hepatologist
Dr. Manna Zhang and Dr. Eleonora Bakalets
Clinical Assistants
Vicki Strick, RN and Hilda Dayanghirang, RN
Pre and Post-Transplant Clinic Nurses
Alia Rarama
Unit Clerk
Natalia Utko
Nurse clinician
Erin Duncan, BA, BSW, RSW
Social Worker
Lori Giesbrecht, RN, BN, Candace Loranger, RN, BN and Carly Roper, RN, BN
Liver Recipient Coordinators
Lung Transplant Program
Dr. Nancy Porhownik
Medical Director, Manitoba Lung Transplant Program
Dr. Musawir Ahmed and Dr. Steven Grocholski
Transplant Respirologists
Rhiza Lam
Dietitian
Patty Phrakonkham-Ali and Erin Duncan, BA, BSW, RSW
Social Workers
Greg Hodges
Physiotherapist
Alia Rarama
Unit Clerk
Dr. Shelley Zieroth, FRCP(C)
Cardiologist
Carly Roper, RN, BN, Candace Loranger, RN, BN and Lori Giesbrecht, RN, BN
Lung recipient coordinators
Jody Hainstock-Beavis, RN, BN
Nurse clinician
Pediatric Renal Transplant Program
Dr. Patricia Birk, FRCP(C)
Medical Director and Transplant Physician
Dr. Aviva Goldberg, FRCP(C) and Dr. Maury Pinsk, FRCP (C)
Transplant Physicians
Dr. Joshua Koulack, FRCP (C)
Transplant Surgeon
Dr. Allison Dart, FRCP(C) and Dr. Kristen Pederson, FRCP(C)
Dialysis Physicians
Dr. Nafisa Dharamsi, FSCS(C) and Dr. Karen Psooy, FRCS(C)
Urologists
Kayla Cruz, RN, BN
Pediatric Recipient Kidney Transplant Coordinator
Jackie Boguski, RN and Marnie Gretsinger, RN, BN
Clinic Nurses
Dot Molchan, RN, cNeph(C)
Post-Transplant Nurse Clinician
Leslie Zachanowich, RN, BN
CKD/Dialysis Nurse Clinician
Dr. Polina Anang
Psychiatrist, Renal
Ashley Catellier, BSW, RSW and Kristin Vincent, BA, BSW, RSW
Social Workers
Kathryn Peterson, BSPharm, ACPR
Pharmacist
Lisa Wilson
Dietitian
Pauline Mohamed
Administration and Support Staff Team Member
Mariel Potente and Regine Opena
Nursing Assistants
Nancy Dodd, PEng
Process Engineer, Transplant Manitoba
Transplant Infectious Diseases Care
Transplant patients are at greater risk for infection. Infectious diseases physicians work to help lessen this risk.
Dr. Armelle Perez Cortes Villalobos , MD, MSc
Transplant Infectious Diseases Physician