Overview

Alex Glazier is President & CEO of New England Donor Services (NEDS), formed in 2017 as an affiliation between two Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) together designated by US Health and Human Services to coordinate organ donation for transplant at over 200 hospitals, 14 transplant centers and a population of 14 million people in a six state service area. 

Effective 2021, NEDS merged the two OPOs, resulting in the first successful OPO consolidation in decades and a 100% increase in the number of organs transplanted in the lower performing OPO service area. NEDS has 275 employees and a $95M annual operating budget. NEDS has been named as a top 100 Female Led Business by the Boston Globe and The Commonwealth Institute for 4 years in a row (2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021).

Alex previously served as the elected regional councilor on the national OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors taked with overseeing donation and transplantation in the U.S. and as Chair of the Policy Oversight Committee leading the strategic coordination of national organ transplant policy development. She also previously served on the OPTN/UNOS medical peer review committee and as Chair of the Ethics Committee. Alex was twice appointed to the U.S. Sec of HHS, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation. Alex is on the Board of the American Society of Reconstructive Transplant (ASRT) and the Board of Donate Life America including work on the venture with Apple to enable donor registration through the iPhone.

Alex started her career practicing health law at the firm Ropes & Gray and became New England Organ Bank’s General Counsel before serving as its CEO. Alex holds an undergraduate degree in bioethics from Brown University and a JD-MPH from Boston University where she then taught as law faculty for a number of years.

Brown Affiliations

• Health Services, Policy and Practice

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