Kayla Wyles
Export,PA
Summary
Experienced transplant and organ recovery professional with 15 years in high-acuity clinical settings, specializing in organ allocation coordination and surgical recovery oversight. Skilled in evaluating organ viability, managing time-sensitive cases, and ensuring regulatory compliance with UNOS and AOPO standards. Expertise in facilitating multidisciplinary communication and maintaining thorough documentation to support transplant program development.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Transplant Coordinator
Buckeye Transplant Solutions
04.2026 - Current
- Coordinate clinical management and organ allocation activities across transplant centers, ensuring timely and accurate communication between surgical teams, OPOs, and hospital staff.
- Coordinate national transplant activity for adult and pediatric heart, lung, kidney, and pancreas programs across two transplant centers.
- Evaluate 50+ incoming organ offers per shift and manage up to four simultaneous transplant cases.
- Prepare comprehensive donor summaries and present organ offers to heart, lung, and kidney surgeons, cardiology, pulmonary, nephrology, and infectious disease physicians.
- Utilize DonorNet and Epic while ensuring UNOS compliance.
- Serve as a key point of contact for transplant logistics, facilitating efficient coordination of organ offers and case progression.
- Communicate with recipients and facilitate potential transplants.
Organ Placement Coordinator/Team Lead
Trinity Air Medical
12.2024 - 06.2025
- Streamlined the referral and evaluation process for organ suitability.
- Evaluate and screen lungs for EVLP suitability.
- Collaborate with thoracic and abdominal transplant surgeons for the suitability of organs pre-transplant.
- Collaborate closely with EVLP centers to work through OR declines to get lungs transplanted.
- Served as a liaison between multiple stakeholders involved in the transplant process.
- Reviewed donor and/or recipient charts to collect appropriate information for offer presentation to physicians.
- Resource to other team members.
- Responsible for overseeing other assigned contracts in addition to performing regular on-call shift duties.
Organ Procurement Coordinator
Donor Recovery Services
08.2023 - 09.2024
- Orchestrating organ donor coordination.
- Manage the medical care of donors.
- Providing unwavering support to donor families throughout the donation process, demonstrating the coordinator’s empathy and strong interpersonal skills.
- Thoroughly ensuring the completion of necessary documentation, providing a sense of reassurance and confidence in our processes.
- Allocation of thoracic and abdominal organs.
- Support in OR during organ recovery.
- Collaborating closely with different departments in the hospital setting, fostering a sense of integration and teamwork.
Substitute Teacher/Short-Term Substitute
Franklin Regional School District
09.2022 - 06.2023
- Took over and managed full-time classroom responsibilities for a 3rd-grade class of 23 students.
- Maintained consistent communication with parents and staff regarding student progress and curriculum.
- Developed lesson plans, managed classroom dynamics, and supported students with learning needs.
- Developed creative instructional strategies to keep students engaged and motivated.
- Implemented classroom management techniques to maintain a positive learning environment.
- Collaborated with colleagues to develop innovative approaches to teaching.
- Repeatedly requested as a substitute teacher by teachers based on excellent past referrals and trusted performance.
Transplant Coordinator
Buckeye Transplant Services
09.2021 - 09.2022
- Managed referrals, evaluation, and pre-transplant data for two different transplant centers and over a hundred pre-transplant patients and coordinated clinical management of post-transplant patients.
- Provided planning and coordination of clinical care for potential and actual transplantation for recipients.
- Collaborated closely with heart, lung, and kidney transplant surgeons and hospital staff, recognizing and valuing their crucial role in the process.
- Worked on projects to improve workflow processes, enhancing teams’ efficiency and effectiveness in patient care.
- Successfully completed the work schedule for the team, an achievement that ensures smooth operations and patient care.
Organ Procurement Coordinator
Center for Organ Recovery & Education
03.2018 - 07.2021
- Compared collected data to typical values and correlated laboratory reports, X-rays, and other tests to assist physicians in determining medical suitability.
- Met monthly goals with authorization rate (received awards for authorization rates). Achieved monthly goals for authorization.
- Educated new staff and developed a new training program for new hires.
- Educated hospital staff regarding the donation process and hospital compliance.
- Worked closely with donor families.
- Allocation of thoracic organs.
- Worked in ORs during procurement.
Clinical Manager/Manager of Respiratory
Chambersburg Hospital
12.2015 - 01.2018
- Identified opportunities to improve clinical practices, devised strategies, and implemented plans to increase patient care standards and enhance operational procedures.
- Staff members, physicians, and patients played crucial roles in effective communication. Employing active listening and interpersonal skills made them feel valued and integral to the process.
- Dynamic communication demonstrates a commitment to promoting high morale and staff retention. By employing active listening and interpersonal skills, I fostered a positive work environment and resolved problems promptly, thereby promoting staff retention.
- Delivered effective onboarding and training to new and existing employees and cross-trained staff members in other job roles to maximize coverage.
- Provided ongoing case management to patients to ensure the implementation of appropriate treatment plans, adherence to quality models, and maximization of service utilization, all of which aim to achieve optimal outcomes.
- Expanded the department with new technology to advance treatment availability at the hospital.
- Reviewed operational policies and recommended solutions, and changed to the medical director.
- Worked with nurse managers to develop nursing staff through education, evaluation, performance management, and competency improvement.
Respiratory Therapist
Altoona Hospital
05.2010 - 12.2015
- Delivered therapies such as oxygen therapy, helium-oxygen therapy, and CPAP therapy to meet patients' treatment goals.
- Set up, operated, and monitored mechanical ventilators and therapeutic gas administration devices to support each patient's individual needs.
- Ensured optimal function of mechanical ventilators, capnometers, and aerosol generators to deliver effective therapy.
- Monitored patient pulmonary health by analyzing blood work, breath sounds, and x-rays.
- Completed blood gas analysis, pulmonary function testing, and other assessments to determine patients' needs.
- Used inhaled medications, proactive therapies, and passive approaches to carry out treatments prescribed by physicians.
- Responded calmly in rapidly changing situations to stabilize patients and restore optimal respiratory function.
- Supported patients with emergency issues by providing them skilled assistance with artificial respiration and external cardiac massage.
- Educated patients and families regarding respiratory conditions and care, including asthma, COPD, and lung cancer.
- Coordinated with interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, and specialists to provide comprehensive patient care.
- Relayed the results of tests to physicians and worked with them to address abnormalities.
- Updated the master chart and individual patient records with current therapy information.
- Maintained well-functioning, clean, and safe equipment to protect the patients from unnecessary risks.
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Respiratory Care with Management Concentration
Independence University
Salt Lake City, UT01-2019
Associate in Science (A.S.) - Respiratory Therapy
Allegheny College of Maryland
Cumberland, Maryland05-2010
Skills
- Organ coordination
- Donor organ evaluation
- Organ offer evaluation
- Organ distribution compliance
- Recovery oversight
- Surgical recovery logistics
- Transplant communication
- Transplant data reporting
- EVLP coordination
- DonorNet utilization
- Clinical coordination
- Workflow Management
- Analytical Problem Solving
- Critical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Teamwork
- HIPAA compliance
- AOPO & Regulatory Compliance
Certification
- Resident Producer Individual Life and Fixed Annuities, Accident and Health License, 04/30/28
- CPTC (Certified Procurement Transplant Coordinator)
- Inbound Marketing Certified, 05/2027
- Social Media Certified, 05/2027
Volunteer Experience
FRAA, VP of FRAA Comp Cheer, 01/2024, Present, Set a timeline including camps/clinics and tryouts, and ensure communication happens via all social media applications., Coordinate tryout events, including identifying judges and judging criteria., Ensure the program’s website and social media content are accurate and up-to-date., Determine a budget for the competition program., Communicate with parents and selected volunteers when registration closes., Bi-directional communication with head coaches throughout the rec season., Attend monthly FRAA board meetings to provide program updates and raise topics for discussions/decisions., Ensure the team is eligible and entered into the identified cheer competitions.
Affiliations
- Volunteer, VP of FRAA Comp Cheer
Accomplishments
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Timeline
Transplant Coordinator
Buckeye Transplant Solutions
04.2026 - Current
Organ Placement Coordinator/Team Lead
Trinity Air Medical
12.2024 - 06.2025
Organ Procurement Coordinator
Donor Recovery Services
08.2023 - 09.2024
Substitute Teacher/Short-Term Substitute
Franklin Regional School District
09.2022 - 06.2023
Transplant Coordinator
Buckeye Transplant Services
09.2021 - 09.2022
Organ Procurement Coordinator
Center for Organ Recovery & Education
03.2018 - 07.2021
Clinical Manager/Manager of Respiratory
Chambersburg Hospital
12.2015 - 01.2018
Respiratory Therapist
Altoona Hospital
05.2010 - 12.2015
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Respiratory Care with Management Concentration
Independence University
Associate in Science (A.S.) - Respiratory Therapy
Allegheny College of Maryland