Who we are

Jill Grandas is an organ procurement and tissue banking industry veteran with over 30 years of experience. In her role overseeing Tennessee Donor Services, Jill leads a team of selfless, hardworking employees who are committed to saving and improving lives.

In 1985, she began her nursing career in a Neurological Intensive Care Unit and became involved in several experiences where patients became organ and tissue donors. As a result of those experiences, she joined TDS in 1987 as an Organ Recovery Coordinator and has expanded her role over the years. She served in several positions within DCI Donor Services including Director of Hospital Services, Associate Director, and Executive Director for the Tennessee location. Since 2005, Jill has also been the Corporate Executive Director for DCIDS.

Jill is a Certified Procurement Transplant Coordinator (CPTC) and a Registered Nurse (RN). An active member of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, Jill currently serves on the Standards and Accreditation Committee and Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Committee. She has also served on both the UNOS Membership and Professional Standards Committee and has served on the Kidney/Pancreas Committee in past years. Most recently, Jill has participated in the newly formed Tissue Policy Group (TPG).

Amy Bonser began her career over 20 years ago as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the Pediatric ICU. After her best friend received the gift of a life-saving double lung transplant in 2003, Amy refocused her career to work in organ procurement. She has held both clinical and leadership roles in the OPO industry and is professionally and personally committed to saving lives through organ and tissue donation.

Amy joined DCI Donor Services in February 2020 to develop and oversee the Business Intelligence, Performance Improvement and Death Record Review departments. These teams are committed to increasing donation and saving more lives by utilizing data to drive decision making and process improvement initiatives at DCIDS’s three Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in Tennessee, New Mexico, and California as well as DCI’s Donor Services Tissue Bank and Sierra Donor Service’s Eye Bank.

Emily joined DCI Donor Services as a Staff Accountant in 2007 and was first promoted into a leadership role in 2014 as the Accounting Supervisor. In her current role as Director of Finance, she is responsible for all financial functions of the organization, including financial planning and analysis, fiscal and regulatory reporting, budgeting, and audits. She also oversees the Purchasing Department for the organization.

Emily is a licensed CPA in the state of Tennessee and earned a Bachelors of Science in Accounting from Mount Vernon Nazarene University.

Deana joined Tennessee Donor Services in 2002, initially as an Organ Recovery Coordinator, and was then promoted into leadership as Clinical Team Leader. In 2008, tissue recovery operations were added to the organization, providing Deana the opportunity to assist in the restructuring of the Quality program. As the Director of Quality, she gained knowledge and an appreciation for quality standards that continues to guide her decision-making.

She then became the Senior Director of Clinical Services and directed the organ operations within TDS. Under her leadership in that role, TDS experienced a 22% growth in organ donors and 31% growth in organs transplanted. Deana was responsible for strategic planning, budget development, and guidance with the help of four managers with a team of over 40 individuals, including organ recovery, family care, and perfusion coordinators.

Deana was recently named Associate Executive Director of TDS. In that position, her oversight will expand to all areas of the TDS donor program.

Deana earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Lipscomb University and a Master’s of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University. She was introduced to the organ donation process while working as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for the Department of Trauma Surgical Services at Vanderbilt Medical Center. She has been an active member of multiple AOPO committees and councils over the years and looks forward to continuing her involvement throughout the industry.

Michael Clay is the Director of Family Services at DCI Donor Services. With over a decade of experience at several high-performing OPOs across the country, he provides direct support to a committed team of compassionate family support leaders at Tennessee Donor Services, New Mexico Donor Services and Sierra Donor Services.

Prior to being named the Director at DCI Donor Services, Michael served as the Director of Family Care at Southwest Transplant Alliance, Manager of Family Support Services at Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency, Manager of Family Services at Nevada Donor Network, and Family and Hospital Services Coordinator with New Mexico Donor Services.

Michael has been a frequent speaker and content contributor for several national conferences and webinars. Michael has served twice as the Chair of the Donor Family Services Council for AOPO. He is also credited as founding one of AOPO’s most popular national events, “The Authorization Summit.” Michael is a member of The Alliance faculty and has presented on several of their live, national webinars. In addition, Michael is an active member of the Association of Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation (AMAT) and American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Michael received his bachelor’s degree in health and human performance from New Mexico Highlands University, where he was also an all-conference athlete on the men’s basketball team. Michael is the founder of BYC Elite Basketball, a nonprofit youth basketball program designed to serve “at promise” youth in New Mexico, Texas, and Southern Colorado.

Stephanie Cozby has been in organ procurement and tissue banking for nearly 20 years, with extensive experience overseeing hospital development, organ recovery, business operations, and IT staff. Over the last eight years at DCIDS, her leadership knowledge and deep understanding of healthcare and operations management has been a significant asset in developing and integrating the company’s quality and compliance systems within operations.

Stephanie started her career as a clinical operations manager in a leading non-profit organ procurement organization. Her responsibilities included overseeing the business-related activities pertaining to donation operations, from managing organ recovery coordinators to maintaining third-party relationships with key vendors.

She then became Senior Director of Quality and Regulatory Compliance for DCI Donor Services, overseeing the organization’s internal auditing, training, and performance improvement initiatives to implement quality and operational effectiveness across the organization.

Stephanie is proficient in the regulatory standards of AOPO, UNOS, CMS, AATB, and the FDA.

Wayne began his career as an ICU Registered Nurse and now has over 20 years of OPO leadership experience. As the Executive Director of New Mexico Donor Services, he leads all efforts to recover organs and tissues for transplant, including oversight of all clinical, hospital development, marketing, and community education activities. Wayne previously served as the Director of Organ Donation Services at LifeCenter Northwest, in Bellevue, WA and the Organ Procurement Director at Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank, now Cascade Life Alliance in Portland, OR. He is passionate about ensuring marginalized communities, especially Native Americans, have access to transplant and works to collaborate with these groups in new and unique ways. Wayne currently serves as an AOPO OPO Group 1 Representative.

He earned a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Boise State University.

He and his wife Tony have two children. Wayne enjoys football, making brick oven pizza, and encouraging his staff to be industry innovators.

As the Director of Human Resources, Joe is responsible for leading all people strategies.  Joe oversees initiatives such as DEI, recruitment, employee relations, benefits, and payroll.  He is most proud to support and represent the frontline employees who make organ and tissue donation become a reality each day!

Joe started his career in the manufacturing sector.  He joined DCI Donor Services in 2015 and found a deep passion for healthcare and improving the lives of others.  Joe holds certifications from HRCI (PHR) and SHRM (SHRM-CP).

Quality Assurance Director, DCIDS

Kristen Pereira is the Quality Assurance Director for DCI Donor Services. She has been a part of the organization’s Quality Assurance Department since 2009.

She is involved in all aspects of quality; executing process improvement initiatives, monitoring quality assurance systems to handling various types of third party inspections to serve our mission of saving and enhancing lives through organ and tissue donation.

She has achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in health care administration, along with the following certifications: Certified Eye Bank Technician (CEBT), Certified Quality Improvement Associate (CQIA), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Quality Manager of Organizational Excellence (CQM/OE).

Donor Family Aftercare Manager

Michele Rosdahl and her team of Aftercare Coordinators are committed to supporting donor families in the months and years after their loved ones’ donation.

For the past two decades, Michele’s career has focused on helping and supporting families through life transitions, first in the behavioral health and social welfare sectors, and now in organ procurement. Michele earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Rogers State University and a Master of Education in Counseling from Northeastern State University.

Kelly earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Loyola University Maryland, a Master of Science degree in Biotechnology from the Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University – Owen Graduate School of Management.

She has worked for DCI Donor Services for over 14 years, and continues to expand the tissue bank program year after year. The tissue bank had a record year in 2023, with more than 58,000 tissue grafts recovered across all of DCIDS from 3,355 tissue donors.

Joel continues to lead the organization to record-breaking tissue recovery milestones. He is most proud of the innovations and progress his team has made in streamlining procedures that reduce redundancies and increase efficiency while improving benchmarks for recovery metrics.

He began his career at Mississippi Organ Recovery Organization, then served at Donor Network West and LifeShare of Oklahoma.

As past Chair of the AOPO Tissue Council, Joel made it his mission to increase collaboration among tissue recovery organizations.

Joel is a graduate of the Art and Science of Leadership program at Wharton’s School of Business and earned a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Mississippi State University. Joel is a proud veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Sean Van Slyck joined Sierra Donor Services in late 2019, bringing with him extensive experience serving the organ and tissue donation community for over 20 years. He leads an incredible team of passionate individuals focused on saving and improving lives through organ, eye, and tissue donation.

Sean has served the broader donation community with numerous appointments on national committees and initiatives including the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO), the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO), and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). He is especially proud of his contributions at UNOS where he served as the OPO Committee Chair and on the OPTN/UNOS Ad Hoc Systems Performance Committee. Sean currently serves at the Co-Chair of the SRTR Review Committee and is an active member of the OPTN Membership and Professional Standards Committee.

Sean obtained his Master’s in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco and attended the Art and Science of Leadership: Driving Results for Donation and Transplantation Professionals program, hosted by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Gift of Life Institute. Sean has served on the Donate Life California Board of Directors since 2018.