With over 20 years of experience in standards-setting and accreditation, Eduardo is a seasoned association executive with a proven track record of relationship and program management, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning. In his current project with AATB, Eduardo is working alongside the organization's leadership to reimagine and rebuild the Association's Standards Program. In his time as an association executive, Eduardo has published extensively on topics ranging from the use of quality management systems in the perioperative setting to how associations should approach the use of standards-setting in fulfilling their mission.

Mr. Sindaco joined AATB in 2023 as Director of Standards. Prior to joining AATB, he spent 18 years at the United States Pharmacopeia, heading operations for standards and serving as Executive Secretariat to the Council of Experts. He initially joined USP’s quality department after holding various operations, quality, and regulatory affairs leadership positions in the blood and clinical laboratory industries. Mr. Sindaco earned a B.A. in Biology from Franklin and Marshall College, an M.S. in Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation from the University of Florida, and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. 

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Kelly Patrick has 21 years of tissue banking experience, working the last 18 years for Solvita (formerly Community Tissue Services).  She has worked as a Tissue Processing Technician, Production Planning Manager, Quality Systems Specialist, and Recovery Partner Director.  Kelly has been a Certified Tissue Banking Specialist (CTBS) since 2005, and earned her MS in Regulatory Science in 2019 from Johns Hopkins University.  Kelly also serves on AATB's Quality Council and Certification Committee, and has presented in-person and virtually on various tissue banking topics for AATB, FDA, and several Solvita customers and Recovery Partners over the last 15 years.

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Corinne is the Executive Director, Chief Operations Officer, and Treasurer of the Anatomy Gifts Registry (AGR), a non-profit whole body donation program. AGR is one of the accredited Non-transplant Anatomic Donation Organizations, or NADOs. Corinne has over 12 years of experience in non-transplant tissue banking ranging from donor family services through research client services and executive management. Corinne has been active in the AATB Ad-Hoc committee, recently turned council, working on the physical assessment and risk assessment guidance documents, among other projects. 

Corinne has Bachelor's and Master's of Science degrees in human nutrition, focusing on clinical nutrition and epidemiology, and has completed her clinical dietetic internship at the University of Maryland,Medical Center, and holds a Registered Dietitian (RD) credential, and has been a Certified Tissue Banking Specialist (CTBS) since 2009.

Kai Sprando, MA TESOL, is the Instructional Designer at Infinite Legacy. In addition to 16 years of teaching experience for both language studies and Kenpo Karate, he also has a BA in Asian Studies, a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Instructional Design from UMBC, a certificate in DEI from Cornell, and has spent time studying at Takushoku University in Tokyo, Japan.

He is a passionate advocate for Trans Rights and Invisible Disabilities, and seeks to make space for voices at the table that might otherwise not get an opportunity. He seeks to educate around intersectionality and provide meaningful context around what it means to be included.

 When not teaching, he can be found playing video games, practicing belly dance with his dance troop, drawing, running his small crafting business, and spending time with his chosen family.

Melissa Onate is a Bilingual Community Outreach Coordinator at Infinite Legacy, specializing in Hispanic Outreach and community program building. A graduate of McDaniel College with a double major in Business Administration and Psychology, Melissa is passionate about her work at Infinite Legacy, where she actively contributes to spread the message about saving lives through organ, eye and tissue donation and stilling hope in those on the wait list.

With nearly three decades of experience in journalism, creative services, communications and public relations, Sharon Cindrich has worked with a wide variety of organizations including Microsoft, Chicago Tribune, Random House, Mattel, The National Education Association, Disney and Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. Sharon holds a Master of Public Administration and Leadership from The John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, and her expertise in the healthcare, education and business sectors includes strategy, government affairs, social marketing, internal communications, health literacy and media management. Sharon is currently the chair of the Masters Committee for Central Ohio Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and is honored to serve the lifesaving and healing mission of organ, eye and tissue donation as Chief Communications Officer for Lifeline of Ohio, the largest regional organization in Ohio that facilitates donation.

Irma Sison, MD, MBA, CTBS, is the Director of Tissue Quality Assurance at LifeNet Health. Prior to joining Quality Assurance, Irma was the Manager of Donor Center.  Irma brings over 14 years of experience in organ and tissue donation. She began her career as a Donor Center Coordinator at LifeNet Health in 2008.  She has also held the positions of Manager of Hospital Services and Manager of Donation Services at Nevada Donor Network, Inc. She is actively involved with the AATB Education Committee and the Recovery and Donor Eligibility Council.  Irma received her BS in Biochemistry from Old Dominion University, her MBA from Longwood University, and her MD from De La Salle University College of Medicine. In addition, Irma is also a LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt and leads various process improvements at her organization.

Josh Brennan spent six years as an EMS professional and was an educator for the Red Cross. Josh has been with New England Donor Services since 2008 in various roles in the Tissue Operations Department. He is currently the Director of Tissue Operations. He has published three abstract articles with the American Association of Tissue Banks and was part of the creative development team for the Hopes Heroes - Donor Family Program. He has been invited to speak at multiple workshops/conferences/webinars on various topics, including Electronic Tissue Authorization, Call Center Scheduling, Algorithmic Tissue Screening, Electronic Tissue Allocation, DRAI competency & training, and Grief Concepts. Josh is currently serving on the AATB Education Committee and was the project co-manager on the development of the Sepsis Education Online Learning Tool for the RADE Council.

Chris joined New England Organ Bank in October 2000 and now serves as the Vice President, Organ Utilization for New England Donor Services. Chris also served for two years as Vice President of Organ Operations at LifeGift in Texas before returning to New England Donor Services in September of 2021. Chris has served as the Chair of the AOPO Procurement Council and on many OPTN/UNOS Committees, including the OPO Committee, VCA Committee, Disease Transmission Advisory Committee and currently serves as a member of the Multi-Organ Transplantation Committee and as the Chair of the Operations and Safety Committee.

Alyssa Harrison serves as the VP of Tissue Operations at LifeShare Network. She has been in the donation industry for over 10 years, starting at United Tissue Network, a non-transplant domination organization.  In her current role, she oversees all aspects of Tissue Recovery and Donation Services, including day-to-day management, donor assessment and evaluation, organization policy, procedure protocol application, training, strategic planning, and administrative duties. She reviews and evaluates all performance metrics and key performance indicators with a primary focus on identifying opportunities for improvement and growth for both departments.  She works as an executive leader to develop and execute strategic plans and annual operative and capital budgets.

Alyssa is a Certified Tissue Banking Specialist and is an active member of AATB, having served on numerous committees, councils, and the Board of Governs. 

She has earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Adult Education and a Master of Business Administration.

Patrick began his career in tissue banking in 2004 as a per-diem tissue recovery technician at Central Florida Tissue Bank. During his tenure at the Central Florida Tissue Bank in addition to tissue recovery, he assumed many roles which included taking referrals, evaluating potential donors, obtaining authorization and tissue processing. In 2007, Patrick joined New England Organ Bank as a full time Tissue Surgical Recovery Coordinator moving quickly into a supervisory role within the next year. Currently, Patrick is Director, Tissue Recovery.  In this role he has been instrumental in improving training procedures and standards of practice working diligently to retain staff and build strong cohesive teams.

Chris has over 30 years of experience in the tissue donation industry, primarily in the areas of tissue recovery, donor screening, program development and quality assurance/auditing.  He has been certified by AATB (American Association of Tissue Banks) for over 25 years.

During his career he has created and led multiple award-winning MS, Skin CV and SV recovery programs. Chris participated in the joint AATB/EBAA/AOPO/NFDA Task Force on Funeral Director relationships and helped create the Best Practices document. He currently serves on the AATB Standards Committee and is the sub-committee chair for the RADE Council Track for the AATB Annual Meeting.

He also has two tissue recipients in his family-his mom and his wife who received FLEX HD following breast reconstruction after breast cancer-the same month he started with MTF! Chris, Karen and their two special needs adult children-Alexandra and Jack, reside just outside of Ft. Worth, TX.  When not at work, Chris serves on the State of Texas Committee on Special Needs as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the local chapter of Meals on Wheels.   Chris also regularly instructs adults and children in martial arts.  He also builds and flies radio-controlled model aircraft, bow hunts and plays golf, albeit poorly...

Steven Clark, PhD is a nationally recognized occupational standards, assessment and web-system developer, who has worked with various private and public sector agencies for over twenty-five years. He has directed national projects for both the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). Most notably the CDC’s National Sudden Infant Death Investigation (SUIDI), the NIJ’s National Death Scene Guidelines Project. Dr. Clark and his company Occupational Research and Assessment (ORA) developed the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs.gov), the online Office Accreditation management systems for both the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) and the International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners (IACME).  Dr. Clark formerly chaired the NIJ's Scientific Working Group subcommittee on Death Scene Investigation and the General Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Dr. Clark is the creator of the largest single web based medical examiner/coroner (ME/C) medicolegal case management system in the US (MDILog.com), as numerous data exchange systems that link with organ and tissue organizations, toxicology laboratories and several ME/C supported research projects (e.g., VDRS/SUDORS/CDR). In addition, he currently serves as the Research and Development Director for the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME), Accreditation consultant to the International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners (IACME).

Delhy Arias is the Sr. Regulatory Affairs Manager at BioTissue Holdings Inc. She has been with BioTissue for the past 15 years where she has held other roles in Production and Quality Assurance.  She became a CTBS in 2012, and is a Certified Quality Auditor and Certified Biomedical Device Auditor under ASQ. Delhy earned a bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering and Masters in Engineering Management from Florida International University. She serves as the Quality Council Representative to the AATB Accreditation Committee. 

Randy is currently the Principal at VeeSquared (V2) Consulting Services. "VeeSquared" is Verification and Validation. His consulting practice includes development and remediation of Quality Systems (HCT/Ps, medical device, over-the-counter drug, and blood processing) and process (especially cleaning validation) and test method qualification and validation and education.

He was an inspector for the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB).
He served on the AATB Accreditation Committee and is a past-Chair of the committee.
He is also the author and technical contact for the ASTM "Guide for Validating Cleaning Processes used during the Manufacture of Medical Devices".

Prior to entering consulting, he was the Associate Director of Quality Assurance for Zimmer Biologics. In this role he was responsible for Quality at the product development facility and for teaching the scientists how do develop and commercialize products, including human tissue products, targeting orthopedic early intervention. 

Most recently, he was the Vice President of Quality, Regulatory, and New Product Development for Pinnacle Transplant Technologies.

As Director of Business Development at Steri-Tek, Jeff Sauter is focused on collaborating with medtech and biotech innovators in helping achieve optimal E-beam/X-Ray sterilization and processing throughput of their medical device, combination device, drug/biologic products. Jeff has 15+ years’ experience consulting within the medical device and biotech arenas. Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Aaron Strickland is the Co-founderand VP of R&D of iFyber, the parent company to NovaSterilis where he servesas their Chief Science Officer.  Aaronhas over 20 years of research experience across a diverse array of fields,including synthetic chemistry, analytical chemistry, microbiology and molecularbiology, and nanotechnology. Aaron leads multidisciplinary teams as theprincipal investigator and study director on both corporate-funded projects andfederal grants and contracts for numerous federal agencies.  Aaron is currently leading an NIH-fundedeffort to explore scCO2-basedsterilization of drug substances and drug products.

Aaron received his Ph.D. inchemistry from the University of Wyoming and performed postdoctoral work inmicrobiology and biotechnology at Cornell University as a National ScienceFoundation Fellow.