Delivering Excellence
The Transplantation team is a part of the Chronic Disease Research Group, a division of the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (formerly known as the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation). Brimming with talent and expertise, our team consists of dedicated individuals ready to fulfill your project objectives.
Investigators
Management
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Ryan Follmer
Director, Information Technology
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Caitlyn Nystedt, MPH, PMP
Program Director, Organ Donation and Transplantation Research
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Mona Shater, MA
Marketing & Communications Director
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David Zaun, MS
Senior Manager, Biostatistics
Transplantation Team
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Yoon Son Ahn, MS
Biostatistician
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Katie Audette, MS
Project Manager
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Chris Comstock
Full-Stack Software Engineer
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Avery Cook, MPH, MSW
Project Coordinator
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Tonya Eberhard
Communications Coordinator
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Anna Gillette
Medical Editor
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Peter Golden
Systems Administrator
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Ahmed Habashy, PMP
Senior IT Project Manager
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Patrick Johnson
Senior SQL Database Engineer
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Amy Ketterer
Senior Communications Coordinator
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Sydney Kletter
Senior Administrative Assistant
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Dan Larson
SQL Database Engineer
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Grace Lyden, PhD
Biostatistician
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Jonathan Miller, PhD, MPH
Biostatistician
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Joshua Pyke, PhD
IT Manager, DevOps
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Cory Schaffhausen, PhD
Human Centered Design Engineer
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David Schladt, MS
Biostatistician
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Eugene Shteyn, MS
Senior Software Engineer
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Katie Siegert, MPH
Project Manager
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Bryn Thompson, MPH
Senior Project Manager
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Tim Weaver, MS
Data Systems Manager
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Nicholas Wood, PhD
Biostatistician