Lucinda Barry has been the Chief Executive Officer of the OTA since 2017. She is responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the OTA and is a member of the Board. Lucinda has extensive experience in health care, both clinical and policy. She has held senior leadership roles within government, the public service and in health service management and delivery. Lucinda represents the Australian Government on a number of national and international committees including: The Australian COVID-19 Donation and Transplantation Rapid Response Taskforce; National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce; Commonwealth “Tribute to Life” International Advisory Panel; International COVID-19 Donation and Transplantation meeting. In addition, she is a member of Australia’s Jurisdictional Organ Donation, Retrieval and Transplantation Steering Committee and the Jurisdictional Eye and Tissue Steering Committee.

Dr Sharon Ford is a Nephrologist and Transplant Physician at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne. She is the chair of the Vascularised Composite Allograft (VCA) Advisory Committee for the TSANZ and the VCA Subcommittee of the Victorian Tasmanian Transplant Advisory Committee. She is involved in Uterine Transplant working group of the TSANZ and also is a member of the executive council of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN) as well as Deputy Chair of the Scientific Program and Awards Committee.

Dr Shilpa Jesudason, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, is a Staff Specialist Nephrologist and Chair of the Clinical Research Group at the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplant Service (CNARTS). Her clinical and research interests include Parenthood in Patients with Kidney Disease. She runs a Renal Pregnancy Clinic for preconception counselling, antenatal and postnatal care, and her research program employs a broad array of methodologies (population data linkage, registry, cohort studies, qualitative, systematic reviews, basic science) to investigate parenthood outcomes for women and men with renal disease. She is also the Clinical Director of Kidney Health Australia.

Mr Graham Starkey specialises in surgery of the gallbladder, liver and pancreas as well as general surgery. He consults and operates at Warringal Private Hospital. Graham also has an appointment as a consultant hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgeon at the Austin Hospital.

Following his undergraduate studies at Monash University, Graham completed his surgical training at the Alfred and Austin hospitals in Melbourne. He subsequently undertook specialty training in hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgery in Melbourne and Birmingham, UK.

Graham is dedicated to providing a service at Austin Hospital and Warringal Private Hospital which is high quality, reliable and responsive.

Anton is a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, and is the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at The Alfred Hospital and Central Clinical School, Monash University. 

He completed his infectious diseases clinical training in Australia in 2005 and then went to the USA for four years and worked at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed a Masters of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health, and also completed a PhD in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. His research interests are in hospital-acquired infections, antibiotic resistance, mechanisms of pathogenesis and infections in immunocompromised hosts.

He is also an active clinician working in the area of hospital-acquired infections and transplant infectious diseases. He is a committee member of the Clinical Research Network of the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases and the Taskforce against Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Bacteria for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare. He has received numerous national and international awards for his advanced research and contribution to Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.

After completing Critical care degree at Austin Health, Tracey was employed as a Liver Transplant Nurse and coordinator from 2002 - 2009. Completing a Masters in science - nurse practitioner qualification, in liver disease and transplantation (a lot of hard work for a qualification that she never used!!). Tracey then ‘jumped the fence’ and was employed at The Royal Melbourne Hospital as a Nurse Donation Specialist from 2010 - 2014. During this time she travelled to Spain, attended University of Barcelona and gained further qualifications in organ donation.

In 2014, she took an opportunity and transferred her knowledge and skills from medicine to law. Tracey was employed as a Medical Liaison Nurse for the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and Coroners Court of Victoria. In this position, she applied her knowledge of pathophysiology and communication skills to support families, medical staff, lawyers and police through the Coroners investigations.  Tracey became the Assistant Manager of Coronial Admissions in 2019, supporting the team, navigating them through the challenges of COVID 19 pandemic. Tracey retired from this position in July 2022 and has taken up her new role as Grandma to Asher John Collins.