Suzanne McGuire, RN, BSN, CCTC
Retired Living Donor Kidney Transplant Coordinator for UCLA Health
Los Angeles, CA

Suzanne McGuire received her BSN degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She achieved certification through the American Board for Transplant Certification as a Clinical Transplant Coordinator (CCTC) in 2003. Suzanne worked her entire nursing career in Transplant Services at UCLA Medical Center, first as a clinical nurse in the Liver Transplant/Surgical ICU then transitioned to the role of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Coordinator. She managed the adult kidney and pancreas transplant waiting list for several years before assuming the role of Living Donor Transplant Coordinator in 2004.

Through June 2021, Suzanne served as supervisor of the living donor team in UCLA’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program. In this role, she mentored living donor transplant coordinators in coordinating direct donation cases and specialized in the management of desensitization and blood group incompatible living donor transplants and kidney paired donation (KPD) transplantation. Suzanne enjoyed hands-on participation in the development and growth of highly complex pathways to living donor transplantation at UCLA. She has served on the UNOS Living Donor and Membership and Professional Standards Committees, as well as faculty member and speaker for the annual AFDT Living Donor Core Concepts conference since its inception.