1. Award Winners

2. Category 1 Cost Reduction/Increase in Work Efficiency/Patient Care Safety Programs Sponsored by The LifeTrac Network

3. Strategies for Effective Pre-transplant Case Management Andrea Tietjen, MBA, Debbie Morgan, LCSW, Shamkant Mulgaonkar, MD Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

5. Category 2 Quality Assurance/Improvement/ Transplant Pharmacoeconomics Sponsored by OTTR Chronic Care Solutions

6. Building a Transplant QAPI Program from the Ground Up: Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste Gwen McNatt, RN, PhD, CNN, FNP-BC, Nicole Beauvais, MPH, PA-C, Kathryn Thomas, MS, RN, SCRN Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

8. Category 3 Revenue Management/ Optimizing Profitability Sponsored by Transplant Management Group, LLC

9. Financial Management of Post- Implant Left Ventricular Assist Device Equipment Chi Huang, MS-HSM, Katie Glass, Gregory Richardson, RN, Danyelle Hoff, BSN, RN, Christy Kay, BSN, RN, Denise Manker, BSN, RN Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO

11. Category 4 Transplant Data: Analysis, Reporting and Research Sponsored by TeleResults Corporation

12. The Impact of Intra-Operative and Post-Operative Practices on Lung Transplant Outcomes Amanda Jones, MSN, RN, CNS, CPHQ, Alexandra Wittenberg, MHA, Derek Sampson Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

14. Best of the Best Sponsored by AST Transplant Administrators Community of Practice

15. Capturing and Billing Pre- Transplant Services for Cost Reporting, Increased Revenue, and Donor Financial Safeguards Deborah Mast Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA

17. 2016 Heckenkemper Leader in Transplant Administration Award Sponsored by Guidry & East, LLC

18. Betty Crandall, MS, RN Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem, NC