Michelle Nadler
St. Louis Children’s Hospital, USA
SPLIT - Member of Education and Multi-D Committees

Michelle Nadler is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with the Liver and Kidney Transplant Programs at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She started as a graduate nurse in 1987 at St. Louis Children’s Hospital where she has continued her career in nursing for the past 36 years. She completed her baccalaureate degree in 1991, the same year she joined the Liver and Kidney Transplant Team as a Transplant Nurse Coordinator. After completing her Masters Degree in Nursing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she transitioned into her current role as Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for the Liver and Kidney Transplant Programs in 2000. She has presented locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally on various topics in pediatric liver transplant. She has been a past board member of the Mid-America Division of the American Liver Foundation and is also been a member of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA). Michelle joined the SPLIT community in 1999 and has served in multiple roles including Chair of the Transplant Coordinators/Allied Health Committee and served as the Allied Health Representative on the Executive, Council and Education Committees.

Megan Faseler
Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, USA
SPLIT - Member of Education and Multi-D Committees

Megan Faseler, BSN, RN, CPN, CCTC, has been a liver transplant nurse coordinator at Children’s Mercy Hospital since 2011. Megan is a member of the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) Education Committee as well as the Multi- D Committee. She is also a member of the American Society of Transplantation (AST).

Jill Plevinsky
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Jill Plevinsky, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a Psychologist in the Pediatric Transplant Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Plevinsky is a member of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) Allied Health Committee and the founding chair of the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) Psychology Committee, a cohort of psychologists working with pediatric liver transplant candidates and recipients. Dr. Plevinsky is a long-standing member of the American Psychological Association Society of Pediatric Psychology (Division 54) and has held leadership roles in the Adolescent/Young Adult, Adherence and Self-Management, Digital Health, and Gastroenterology Special Interest Groups. Dr. Plevinsky’s area of expertise lies in adherence and self-management of pediatric chronic medical conditions. Her overall aim is to examine how healthcare systems can support adherence and self-management during periods of developmental transition to improve systems-level and patient-centered outcomes using digital tools.

Melissa Semp, APRN-NP
Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, USA

Melissa is Family Nurse Practitioner. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from DePaul University. She received her Master’s in Nursing from DePaul University and went on to complete her nurse practitioner training at DePaul University earning a Post-Master’s Certificate. Melissa joined the Lurie Children’s liver transplant team in December 2012. She works with children and families from beginning of their journey to liver transplant through the post-transplant phase into young adulthood. She is a Certified Clinical Transplant Nurse. Melissa has an interest in pediatric to adult transition, and she is the lead clinician for the Lurie Children’s multidisciplinary solid organ transition clinic.

Stephen Molitor, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

Stephen Molitor, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also a licensed psychologist serving patients at Children’s Wisconsin. Dr. Molitor completed his graduate training at Virginia Commonwealth University and a postdoctoral fellowship specializing in pediatric psychology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Molitor’s clinical work focuses primarily on supporting pediatric patients through all phases of solid organ transplantation.

Sarang Thaker, MD
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Sarang Thaker, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he is a transplant hepatologist caring for adult patients pre- and post-transplant. He leads the adult component of the Lurie Transition Clinic and is member of the American Society of Transplantation (serving in the Liver-Intestine Education Subcommittee Community of Practice) and American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. He is the director of the medical student hepatology rotation and is an investigator in clinical trials related to metabolic associated steatotic liver disease and autoimmune hepatitis.