Christopher Michetti, MD, FACS, FCCM  - Course Chair
Associate Professor of Surgery, VCU School of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus,
Medical Director, Trauma Intensive Care, Inova Fairfax Hospital, VA

Christopher P. Michetti, MD is an Acute Care Surgeon at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia where he serves as the Medical Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit, and Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship program. He is the current President of the American Trauma Society. Dr. Michetti completed medical school at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, general surgery residency at Pinnacle Health in Harrisburg, PA, and a two-year fellowship in trauma/critical care at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Michetti is an active member of several national medical organizations including the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He serves on the Board of Directors of Washington Regional Transplant Community, and is a member of the Alliance’s Donor Management Leadership Council. He is the conceptual creator, co-Editor, and author for the Alliance’s Organ Donation Advanced Seminar for Standardized Clinical Education (ODASSCE) course 


Galen Henderson, MD   - Course Chair 
Director,  Neuroscience ICU, Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA

Galen V. Henderson MD is currently a professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Neurocritical Care and the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.  He received a doctor of medicine degree from Brown Medical School and trained in Neurology at the Harvard Longwood Neurological Training Program.  His fellowships in stroke and neurocritical care was also at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.   He has served as the Director of Neurological Education for all Harvard Medical students the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is a charter member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School, consisting of HMS’s elite medical educators. Dr. Henderson has served on the boards of the Critical Care and Emergency Neurology Executive Section of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Heart Association Northeast Affiliate.  He is also on the Board of the New England Organ Bank. He has been awarded multiple times for national leadership in hospital quality improvement system change regarding life saving organ donation programs.  Currently, he is the founding Deputy Editor of the international publication, Journal Watch Neurology, which is published by the New England Journal of Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society.  He is the President Elect for the Brown University Alumni Association and will lead an organization with more than 6000 staff and volunteers. He is trustee emeritus of the Corporation of Brown University.  Dr. Henderson is known nationally and internationally as a medical educator in areas of neurocritical care, stroke and end of life issues.

Matthew Niles, MSN, MHA, RN
Director of Clinical Services, Washington Regional Transplant Community, VA

Matthew Niles, MSN, MHA, RN has experience in critical care and emergency department nursing as well as hospital administration.  Matt worked as a bedside nursing and had the opportunity to care for donors and their families.  He also has worked at the Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) as an organ procurement coordinator, and served as faculty at Gannon University. Matt also worked in nursing leadership at UPMC Hamot.  He earned his Bachelor of Science in nursing from Mansfield University and also earned a Master of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration.  Matt has worked at the Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC) as the Director of Clinical Services for the past 4 years.  

Harry E. Wilkins III, MD, MHCM, FACS
Acute Care Surgeon, Quincy Medical Group, IL, Administrative Medical Director, Midwest Transplant Network, MO

Harry E. Wilkins, III, MD, MHCM, FACS is an Acute Care Surgeon with Quincy Medical Group in Quincy, Illinois and serves as the Administrative Medical Director for Midwest Transplant Network. Dr. Wilkins is a founding member of the Midwest Transplant Network’s Critical Care Task Force (CCTF). Dr. Wilkins completed Medical School at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois through their 6 year Honor’s Program in Medical Education in 1986. Following a one-year internship in Internal Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, he returned to Chicago to complete a surgical residency at Columbus Hospital Programs before completing a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland in 1993. He received a Master’s of Science in Health Care Management (MHCM) degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2009. Dr. Wilkins spent ten years in private practice as a trauma and critical care surgeon in Tyler, Texas and Overland Park, Kansas before relocating to Kansas City becoming the Medical Director for Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Saint Luke’s Hospital in 2007. Dr. Wilkins is currently Board Certified in General Surgery and holds a certificate of added qualifications in Surgical Critical Care. He holds academic appointments at Assistant Clinical Professorship level at The University of Texas (Arlington and Tyler) and The University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Charley Wright, MD
Medical Director, LifeLink of Florida, FL

Charles E. Wright, M.D., is medical director of LifeLink of Florida in Tampa. He recently served on the membership and professional standards committee (MPSC) and its policy compliance subcommittee. Previously, he was a member of the MPSC performance analysis and improvement subcommittee. Dr. Wright is a member of the Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance's Donor Management Leadership Council and co-chaired The Alliance's 2011 donor management summit. He has served as a medical advisor on the executive committee of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations. He earned his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine.

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