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“I Just Want To Be Normal”: Specialty Grafts And Their Impact

Learning Objectives:

  1. Attendees will be able to define and describe fresh osteochondral allografts 
  2. Attendees will be able to educate tissue requestors on techniques to gain authorization of upper extremity tissue donation
  3. Attendees will be able to understand and communicate the surgical utilization of fresh osteochondral elbow grafts
  4. Attendees will be able to describe the current need and recipient population of upper extremity fresh osteochondral grafts

Katie Hanzlicek, MBA, CTBS

Operations Manager

Katie Hanzlicek is the Operations Manager at JRF Ortho where she supports supplier relationships, balances osteochondral allograft supply and demand, and manages the company quality systems. Katie began her career in tissue banking in 2012 as an Operations Technician at AlloSource and became CTSB certified in 2013. She gained hands-on experience in allograft tissue production, cleansing, and packaging, as well as product development, quality management, and technical writing. Katie co-authored two patents (currently pending) on rapid allograft treatment. She completed her Master of Business Administration degree with a specialization in Change Management in 2020 at the University of Colorado, aligning her passions in science and business.

Roy Mayfield, CTBS

In his current role, Mr. Mayfield manages the daily activity of tissue recovery services clinical staff throughout Gift of Hope's service area. While his main office is in Springfield, IL he splits his time between both the Springfield office and Chicago office. He develops and implements clinical policies, procedures and protocols for all aspects of the tissue donation process. Mr. Mayfield’s area of personal interest is coordinating special tissue and bone grafts for patients at risk of limb loss due to cancer or other medical or traumatic conditions as well as maximizing the recovery of split thickness skin for burn patients in need of the life-saving grafts. Roy's previous work at Gift of Hope included fucntioning as Coroner/FH /Pathologist Liaison in downstate Illinois, working to encourage and facilitate donation in Central Illinois. He also implemented Gift of Hope's embalming program for tissue donors. He worked with Memorial Medical Center and Southern IL School of Medicine on their Vascular Composite Allograph (VCA) program. His role was in training and networking between the OPO and transplant center as well as Department of Plastic Surgery at SIU. Roy is a certified tissue banking specialist, a member of the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB), and has served as a national committee member for the AATB, speaking at national conventions about successes with special tissue and bone grafts.

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