OneLegacy

Key Responsibilities

• • Provides executive clinical oversight of donor referral response, evaluation, authorization support, donor management, allocation practices, organ recovery, and preservation protocols.
• • Establishes standardized, evidence-based donor management pathways to optimize organ function and maximize transplantation outcomes.
• • Leads performance review of key metrics including donor conversion rates, organs transplanted per donor, allocation timeliness, and recovery quality indicators.
• • Oversees multidisciplinary clinical case reviews, quality event investigations, third-party complaints, and system-level corrective action plans.
• • Partners with Medical Directors, hospital critical care leaders, and transplant professionals to promote evidence-based donor management and clinical collaboration.
• • Integrates research, innovation, and emerging best practices into clinical protocols.
• • Drives innovation, research integration, and advancement of clinical best practices to strengthen donation outcomes.
• • Provides executive clinical oversight of tissue donor screening, authorization practices, recovery techniques, and allocation to professional partners.
• • Ensures compliance with FDA regulations, AATB standards, state licensure requirements, and internal clinical policies.
• • Develops culture of Quality through support in adverse event review, recall management, and quality investigations.
• • Maintains executive-level partnerships with tissue processors to ensure high-quality recovery, low discard rates, and exceptional documentation standards.
• • Monitors tissue recovery performance metrics, consent effectiveness, and case file completion timeliness.
• • Promotes ongoing competency validation and professional development for tissue recovery personnel.
• • Provides executive oversight of corneal recovery, tissue processing, preservation techniques, and surgeon distribution processes.
• • Ensures compliance with EBAA accreditation standards and federal and state regulations.
• • Monitors key performance indicators including Death-to-Preservation and Death-to-Release intervals.
• • Oversees competency assessments and clinical validation for ocular recovery and laboratory staff.
• • Leads initiatives to enhance ocular tissue quality and patient safety outcomes.
• • Leads enterprise-wide clinical quality and patient safety strategy across Organ, Tissue, and Eye Operations.
• • Oversees dashboard development and KPI monitoring to ensure transparency, accountability, and sustained regulatory performance.
• • Ensures readiness for CMS surveys, regulatory inspections, and external audits.
• • Promotes a culture focused on patient safety, system improvement, ethical accountability, and risk mitigation.
• • Ensures accuracy, completeness, and integrity of donor medical records and regulatory documentation.
• • Provides enterprise governance over clinical education, workforce competency, and licensure oversight across Organ, Tissue, and Eye Operations, ensuring a highly proficient and legally authorized clinical workforce.
• • Establishes and maintains systems that ensure all employed and contracted clinical personnel are appropriately licensed, certified, and practicing within the scope of their credentials, with continuous oversight of compliance.
• • Oversees enterprise credentialing and competency validation frameworks designed to mitigate regulatory risk, protect patient safety, and sustain clinical excellence.
• • Aligns clinical education strategy with CMS Conditions for Coverage, accreditation standards, patient safety priorities, and organizational performance objectives.
• • Provides executive and Board-level reporting on workforce competency, licensure compliance, and clinical education effectiveness, ensuring audit readiness and sustained regulatory integrity.
• • Leads strategic clinical planning aligned with organizational mission and performance objectives.
• • Develops and manages annual clinical operating and capital budgets in partnership with Finance.
• • Oversees recruitment, succession planning, leadership development, and performance management of clinical leaders.
• • Promotes interdisciplinary collaboration across departments to strengthen enterprise clinical integration.
• • Represents OneLegacy nationally in professional organizations including AOPO, OPTN, AATB, and EBAA.
• • Acts as a staff resource for problem solving and administrative questions related to tissue and organ procurement efforts.
• • Participates in executive-level Administrator-on-Call rotation and crisis response.
• • Backs up 24-hour call responsibility to ensure efficient operation of donation activities.
• • Shares best practices with entire procurement operations teams to ensure recovery is as effective as possible and to maintain the very highest quality standards.
• • Receives and reviews feedback on donors and donor process to improve quality of the process as warranted.
• • Participates in special events such as national Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Month, and other community events or public education activities as needed.
• • Serves as a liaison to the media if needed on issues related to procurement operations locally or nationally.
• • Attends staff meetings, training programs and/or in-services meetings and other domestic and international conferences, as deemed necessary by the CEO.
• • Supports the organization’s Standards of Professional Conduct as outlined in OneLegacy Policies, and the mission, vision and values of OneLegacy.
• • Performs other duties as assigned.