For organ donation and issues of donor suitability please call us Toll Free at 866-731-6585. We are available 24hr/day and will refer you to the appropriate staff member. For tissue processing questions and sample inquiries please contact the nPOD OPPC lab at 352-273-7737 or email nPOD@pathology.ufl.edu. For cases processed at nPOD West please contact Dr. Panzer at jpanzer@coh.org.
nPOD Administrative Office Contact information
University of Florida, College of Medicine
1275 Center Drive, BMSB Room J586
PO Box 100275
Gainesville, FL 32610-0275
For general information, please contact our Administrative Staff
Mark Atkinson, PhD
nPOD Executive Director
Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD
nPOD Co-Executive Director
Alberto Pugliese, MD
nPOD Co-Executive Director
Administrative Core Staff
Irina Kusmartseva, PhD
nPOD Director
Robert O’Flynn, BA HDS-C
nPOD OPO Liaison and Organ Donor Development Coordinator
Brittany Pratt, BA
nPOD Investigator Coordinator
Alice Zhang
nPOD Program Assistant
Organ Processing and Pathology Core Staff
Helmut Hiller, MS
nPOD OPPC Manager
Maria Beery, MS
CaRE-T1D OPPC Manager
Robin Foss, BA, BHS, PA (ASCP)
nPOD Core Pathologists' Assistant
Ellen Verney, MS
nPOD Core Research Specialist
Amanda Ramella, BS, HTL (ASCP)
nPOD Histotechnologist
Casey Grubel, BS
nPOD Core Research Technician
Kacie Geelhoed, BS
nPOD Core Research Technician
Alexis Meier, BA
nPOD Core Research Technician
Paulina Kapuscinska, MS
nPOD Core Research Technician
nPOD West Staff
Julia Panzer, PhD
nPOD West Director
Issac Snowhite, PhD
Staff Scientist
Pablo Garcia, BS
Research Associate II