Harry Wilkins, M.D.

Harry Wilkins, M.D.

President/CEO – Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network

Harry Wilkins, M.D. is President/CEO of Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network. In that role, he provides overall leadership for the organization, guides its strategic direction and ensures that the organization stays true to its mission — to save and enhance the lives of as many people as possible through organ and tissue donation. 

Before joining Gift of Hope in October 2020, Dr. Wilkins served as Attending Acute Care Surgeon for Quincy Medical Group. 

Dr. Wilkins holds a Doctor of Medicine from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and a Master’s in Healthcare Management from Harvard.


Jennifer Prinz

Jennifer Prinz

Board Chair

Chief Executive Officer – Donor Alliance

Jennifer Prinz brings decades of experience in public health to her role as CEO of Donor Alliance. Prior to her current role, she served as Donor Alliance’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) for 11 years. Before Donor Alliance, Jennifer served as director of procurement and director of quality systems and compliance at Tennessee Donor Services and has more than two decades of experience in the donation and transplantation field. 

Jennifer serves on numerous boards including the Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence, Life Logics and the Latinx Center at the University of Denver. She has also served as a national examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program. 

Jennifer has been personally touched by the lifesaving possibilities of transplantation and strives to maximize donation and transplantation in Colorado, Wyoming, and across the country.


Suzanne Conrad

Suzanne Conrad

Chief Executive Officer – Iowa Donor Network

Since 1997, Suzanne Conrad has served Iowa Donor Network as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to coming to Iowa, she worked for Southwest Organ Bank (now Southwest Transplant Alliance) for 12 years in various hospital development and professional education management positions. Her tenure includes establishing the organization’s full-time, full-service marketing department.

Conrad has served on numerous boards including the Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance board of directors. She is a past president of both the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations and the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization. She has held many committee positions with both organizations over the years. Currently, Conrad is serving her fourth (non-consecutive) term on the UNOS Board of Directors as the Vice President for Patient and Donor Affairs. In the past, she has served as UNOS Treasurer and as a member of several of its organizational committees.

Donation personally hit home for Conrad in 2005 when she became a living kidney donor.


Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

President & Chief Executive Officer – Mid-America Transplant

As President and CEO of Mid-America Transplant, Kevin Lee oversees strategic operations, including key partnerships with more than 120 hospitals and transplant centers located throughout Missouri, northeast Arkansas and southern Illinois. He has more than 25 years of experience leading strategic initiatives in health care and education, including executive roles at Mercy Health and Loyola Academy of St. Louis.

Lee has been with the organization since 2015, where he served as the executive director of the Mid-America Transplant Foundation and advanced to hold roles as vice president of community engagement and chief organ operations officer. During this time, the Mid-America Transplant team achieved tremendous growth in organ donation, including a 24% increase in organ donors and 27% increase in families who said yes to donation.

Prior to stepping into his CEO role in early-2023, Lee served as executive vice president and COO at Mid-America Transplant.


Mark Simon

Mark Simon

President & Chief Executive Officer – ConnectLife

Treasurer

Serving ConnectLife, formerly Unyts, for 13 years as President and CEO, Mark J. Simon has helped create Western New York’s only organ, eye, tissue and community blood center. He previously served as the organization’s Director of Finance. Simon came to ConnectLife in January 1997 with extensive experience in not-for-profit accounting, working for three local hospitals and a medical association. As President and CEO, Simon oversees and manages the day-to-day operations of ConnectLife. He directly supervises the management staff, oversees corporate policies and procedures, develops collaborative relationships with local companies, hospitals and health related agencies to promote growth and develop additional clinical services.

Simon is actively involved in the donation industry and currently serves on numerous boards.