Executive Committee

Ms. Pallavi Kumar is the Executive Director of the Delhi NCR office of MOHAN Foundation, which she set up in 2011. Pallavi had the opportunity to work with TANKER (Tamilnadu Kidney Research) Foundation in Chennai, which helped her understand the plight of patients living with end stage organ failure requiring a transplant for survival on one hand and the acute shortage of organs in our country on the other. Beneath that soft heart there is a glint of steel that emerged when she braved her way up to conquer the Everest Base camp in 2018 and Mount Kilimanjaro in 2019 with the singular aim of promoting organ donation

Dr Amit Joshi is the Deputy Medical Superintendent at the Bombay Hospital, Indore. His role as a transplant coordinator and senior manager in administration is characterized by strong leadership skills, technical expertise and a deep commitment to saving lives through transplantation. Amit has an experience of more than 15 years in coordinating both deceased and living donor transplants. With his exceptional skills in family counseling, he was instrumental in facilitating the firsthand donation in Madhya Pradesh. He has successfully coordinated Intrastate Heart transport with the help of Indian Air Force. Amit has been awarded a mini fellowship on Organ donation by Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia USA.

Ms Vrinda Pusalkar is the Senior Manager & Transplant Coordinator at Jehangir Hospital, Pune. She has worked in the organ transplant field for more than 25 years and has coordinated more than 600+ transplants. Prior to this, she has worked with ZTCC Pune as a coordinator and is currently Managing committee member ZTCC, Pune. Vrinda has been Instrumental in facilitating the first successful Heart retrieval in Maharashtra which was also the first successful heart transplant in the western region of India. Vrinda is the Faculty for Transplant Coordinators Training Programme ROTTO/SOTTO and the Ethics Committee Member for Medical Research with HCJMRI, Linq Lab and Savitribai Phule Pune University.

Ms. Priti Jain is a seasoned Transplant coordinator and Senior Manager with 18 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She has managed various departments, such as, Customer relations and non clinical operations. She is currently the Senior Manager – Administration at Alexis Hospital, Nagpur. Her extensive experience in coordinating both deceased and live donor transplants has earned her numerous accolades. She has been recognized for her work in facilitating the first deceased donor transplant in Nagpur, as well as her role in the first swap transplant in the area. Her dedication and 12 Years of commitment in transplant coordination with a strong emphasis on deceased donation have made her an invaluable asset to any healthcare organization.

Ms Jasmeet Kaur is the Manager - Medical Administration at Fortis Healthcare, New Delhi. She has an experience of more than 18 years in Medical Administration and office management managing hospital academics, clinical excellence, and the organ donation program. Jasmeet is passionate about organ donation and committed to driving cause- based CSR initiatives aligned with the organizational as well as her personal vision.

Ms Laishram Monica Devi is a Programme officer of MOHAN Foundation, Imphal branch based out of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS),Porompat, Imphal-Manipur. Monica has a Masters in Hospital Administration. Prior to this, she was working at Apollo Hospitals, Guwahati as a Transplant Coordinator for the Living donor organ Transplantation. She was part of the team that was instrumental in initiating living donor renal transplant initiated at JNIMS. She was closely involved in counselling and coordinating for the first deceased organ donation (kidney) in Manipur. She has been actively working to promote awareness on deceased organ donation in the northeast region of India

Capt Swamy is the President of Bengal Organ Donation Society (BODS) since 2015 working as a social activist for improvement of organ donation. He has organised several educational seminars, events and promotional workshops on organ donation in West Bengal. He has successfully coordinated multiple deceased organ and tissue donations in West Bengal.

Ms Veena Wathore is a Project Manager at MOHAN Foundation, Nagpur and is dedicated to enhancing organ donation and transplantation efforts in Nagpur and Vidarbha region. Armed with MOHAN Foundation’s Transplant Coordinators certificate, she was deputed by ROTTO-SOTTO-West in 2017 to coordinate the organ donation & transplantation activities across Nagpur's 11 districts in Vidharbha region. In 2019, Veena served as a 'Zonal Coordinator' at Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre-Nagpur, counseling potential organ donor families and facilitating retrievals. She counselled over 100 donor families compassionately and motivated them to consider organ donation. Veena's research on 'Awareness on deceased organ donation amongst healthcare professionals' earned her a best research paper award in her M. Phil degree.

Ms Mayuri Barge is the Assistant General Manager-Multi-Organ Transplant & Donation Program at Dr D. Y. Patil Hospital and Research Centre, Pune. She has more than 15 years of comprehensive expertise in end-to-end coordination of multi-organ donation & transplantation, including living Related, unrelated, deceased, and foreign national cases. Mayuri has successfully coordinated over 450 kidney, liver, heart, and combined heart & lung transplants. She has facilitated the first Heart and Lung transplant in medical college set-up in Maharashtra and Pune Zone.

Mr Vishok N is working as an Assistant Nursing Superintendent and Transplant Coordinator at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),Raipur. He has been involved in coordination and counseling of families and was instrumental in facilitating the first deceased donation at AIIMS Raipur. Vishok is a member of Transplant Steering Committee of AIIMS, Raipur. He is actively involved in organizing various awareness activities and training programmes on Organ donation for doctors, paramedical, nurses and general public

Dr Rajan Singh is working as a Manager - Critical Care Unit both at RKM Hospital and CNM Hospital at Bhagalpur (Bihar). He has been instrumental in organizing many blood donation camps and is keen to start organ transplantation. Currently there are no transplants happening in his region and patients are worked up and get transplants in Kolkata. Rajan is keen to push for this in Bihar.

Dr Navdeep Bansal is working as a Transplant Coordinator at PGIMER, Chandigarh. Navdeep has been awarded the Best Transplant Coordinator at national level by NOTTO in 2017 and 2020. He has got many Publications in various national and international journals. He is the author of Textbook of psychology & sociology for GNM students. He has successfully converted more than 125 organ donations including donation after circulatory death. Navdeep was instrumental in facilitating the youngest donation from a child was 72 hours old.

Ms Sukhvinder Lal is currently working as Senior Officer, in Manipal Organ Sharing & Transplant (MOST) for 31 Manipal Hospitals. She is based at Manipal Hospital Delhi. With over 12 years of experience, she has been awarded by the union Health minister, Sh J P Nadda during National Organ Donation Day celebrations in 2016 for her extraordinary contributions in the field of organ donation. Sukhvinder was previously associated with renowned healthcare institutions such as Fortis Healthcare and Max Healthcare. She has been instrumental in creating protocols and processes in organ donation and transplantation for her current and previous organizations. She is a proud mother of a generous daughter, who has donated her hair twice to cancer patients.

Ms. Lijamol Joseph has got more than 14 years of experience in the organ donation and Transplant program. She is a recipient of Swamy Narayan Best Transplant Coordinators' Award in 2023, Organ donation Advocacy Award and many others. During her tenure with SOTTO, Lija has facilitated151 deceased donor donations in 2022. She was instrumental in enabling the first intra-city heart transportation using air ambulance in Karnataka. She has coordinated the first bilateral hand donation and the first heart and lung transplant in Karnataka.

Dr Bhanu Chandra is working in the field of organ donation and transplantation since 2010. He is working as Operations Manager and Senior Transplant coordinator at MOHAN Foundation, placed at Osmania General Hospital. In these 14 years, he has counseled and coordinated around 700 potential organ donor families. He coordinated the first liver transplant at Osmani General hospital, first combined kidney pancreas transplant at Osmania General hospital, first organ transport through Metro train in India and the first skin donation in the state of Telangana. In 2015 he received “Swamy Narayana Best Transplant Coordinators Award” from NATCO. In 2019 he received “Best transplant coordinator award” from NOTTO. He also received Rotary Vocational Excellency Award from Rotary club in 2023.