AudioCast

NEW NATCO Academy Offering

NATCO AudioCast

We are excited to announce a new member benefit now available in the NATCO Academy:

NATCO AudioCast: Courage and Character, Leaders and Legends, a special series of interviews originally published in Progress in Transplantation. These inspiring conversations were conducted and written by Linda Ohler, Editor-in-Chief of the journal from 1994 to 2016. Throughout her tenure, Linda spoke with many of the most influential leaders in organ donation and transplantation, individuals who forged new paths, broke barriers, and made extraordinary contributions to the field.

We are proud to bring you this historical collection, capturing the voices and stories of the men and women who shaped our profession, all with courage and character. 

Now available: Seven interviews, with more to be released in the coming months:

• An Interview with Velma Scantlebury, MD
• An Interview with Dr. Thomas Starzl
• An Interview with Robert Montgomery, MD
• An Interview with Dr. Hans Sollinger
• An Interview with Bud Frazier
• An Interview with Nader Moazami
• An Interview with Bud Shaw

Access this series today in the NATCO Academy and be inspired by the leaders and legends who paved the way.

NATCO AudioCast

Feature Friday

August 31, 2026 

NATCO introduces a new monthly series of AudioCasts on Feature Friday, the last Friday of every month.

Join us as we bring to life the interviews of Linda Ohler, MSN, RN, CCTC, FAAN, Editor Emeritus of Progress in Transplantation.

Our eighth interview of the series features Maria Zofia Siemionow, MD, PhD, DSc



An Interview with Maria Zofia Siemionow, MD, PhD, DSc

Maria Zofia Siemionow is a Polish-born transplant surgeon and scientist. She is known for leading a team of eight surgeons through the first near-total face transplant performed in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008. The patient, Connie Culp, a 45-year-old woman from a small town in Ohio, was exceedingly disfigured by a close-range shotgun blast in 2004.