John Piano

Transplant Connect is the world’s established leader in clinical, analytics, tracking and communications software for organ, tissue and eye donation, transplantation and research. The company's innovative, cloud-based and interoperable iTransplant Ecosystem Platform is trusted by many thousands of medical professionals in the U.S. and across the globe and provides the backbone for life-saving and healing donation and transplantation operations every year. A relentless donation-transplant advocate and international faculty member and speaker, John created Transplant Connect and the iTransplant Platform after successful careers in law, media and technology. Today, supported and inspired by a brilliant and passionate team of expert medical technologists, John continues to expand Transplant Connect's impact through new innovations, such as the groundbreaking iReferral Automated Donor Referral Technology. The inventor of automated referrals, Transplant Connect, today integrates into many EMR patient software systems to automate the initial donor identification and referral process and thereby liberate many hours of hospital ICU nursing time while also enabling significant increases in organ, tissue and eye donation and resulting transplants. By introducing advanced technologies to and establishing extensive technology partnerships with organ procurement organizations, hospitals, transplant centers, tissue banks, eye banks, medical device companies, logistic/transport providers, governments and many others, John has built from the ground up what has become the de facto ecosystem technology platform for organ, tissue and eye donation in the U.S. and in other countries around the world. Winner of many awards, including the Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award, Transplant Connect has, since its inception, enabled medical professionals to successfully carry out well over 10 Million life-saving and life-enhancing organ, cornea and tissue transplants.