AATB Learning
2026 Webinar Series: Legal Perspectives for Today’s Challenges
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Description: Join OPO attorneys for an engaging overview of regulatory and legal developments affecting organ and tissue donation, including proposed CMS rules, authorization and immunity under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and employee versus independent contractor classification. Gain practical insights into the implications for tissue bank operations, contractual protections and workforce compliance.
Target audience: Tissue bank leadership, quality and regulatory affairs professionals, compliance officers, legal counsel, human resources professionals, and others involved in tissue bank operations, contracting, and workforce management.
Jefferson Whisenant
Vice President, General Counsel
HonorBridge
Jefferson Whisenant serves as Vice President and General Counsel of HonorBridge, North Carolina's largest organ procurement organization. In this role, he provides legal and strategic guidance to executive leadership and the governing board and oversees the organization's Legal, Quality, and People & Culture functions. Prior to joining HonorBridge, Jefferson primarily represented employers in complex labor and employment matters at an internationally recognized firm, advocating for clients before administrative agencies, state and federal trial courts, and appellate courts.
Salama Gallimore
General Counsel
Midwest Transplant Network (MTN)
Salama Gallimore serves as General Counsel at Midwest Transplant Network (MTN). Salama provides legal counsel to MTN’s executives, clinical teams, board members, and the Human Resources department while supervising contracting operations, advising on regulatory compliance and risk management and working with outside counsel to manage matters in litigation. Salama routinely drafts and revises operating and employment policies and represents MTN before federal and state administrative agencies. Additionally, she serves as MTN’s Privacy Compliance Officer. Salama also serves on the AOPO Advocacy Committee, where she helps shape organ donation and transplantation policies and legislation on a national level in conjunction with OPO leaders from across the nation and serves as a Board member of the Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation (AMAT). Prior to working at MTN, Salama worked at a Kansas City law firm where her practice focused on education and employment law. Salama has also served as the Director of Investigations of the Office for Civil Rights and Title IX at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Greg Harris
Director, Legal and Policy Affairs
Donor Network of Arizona
Greg is a graduate of Arizona State University and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU. Before joining DNA, Greg was a parter with a Phoenix-based law firm. Before entering private practice, Greg worked for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Arizona Attorney General's office and the Arizona Department of Insurance, with much of his practice devoted to regulatory and administrative law issues.