2025 Webinar Series: Déjà-Two: Navigating Change Through OPO and Hospital Mergers (Group)

Includes a Live Web Event on 11/05/2025 at 2:00 PM (EST)

Description: Organizational mergers bring both challenges and opportunities, particularly within the donation and transplantation community. Drawing on experiences from two OPO mergers and a hospital merger, this webinar will highlight key lessons learned and explore the critical role that organizational culture plays in navigating change. Participants will gain insights into effective strategies for managing transitions, fostering resilience, and planning for a sustainable future.

Target Audience: This webinar is designed for tissue banking executive leaders, operations managers, and quality/regulatory staff as well as hospital administrators involved in donation and transplantation.

Matthew Niles, MSN, MHA, RN

Executive Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer

Network for Hope

Matthew Niles grew up in Pennsylvania. He went to The Center for Executive Education at the Fox School of Business at Temple University; the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; and Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.

As a former emergency room and critical care nurse, Niles has had the opportunity to care for donors and their families at the bedside. Inspired by the power of organ, tissue, and eye donation, he’s chosen to make it his life’s work. As a donor family, transplant recipient friend, and friend of someone whose gift of an organ transplant did not come in time, Niles is passionate about the Donate Life mission and doing all we can to honor donors and their families, and work to eliminate the national transplant waitlist.

Under Network for Hope’s legacy organization, LifeCenter Organ Donor Network, Niles was the Chief Operating Officer, and previous to that, he was the Director of Clinical Services at the Washington Regional Transplant Community. Overall, Niles has been in healthcare for 25 years.