Assistant Vice-President Transplant and Dialysis Services
HCA Healthcare, US
Biography
James Pittman is the Assistant Vice President of Transplant and Dialysis Services at HCA Healthcare.
Pittman is an experienced transplant administrator and healthcare leader who joined HCA Healthcare in November 2007 as the Transplant Administrator at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center (SDNAMC). During his tenure at SDNAMC, Pittman participated in the HCA Executive Development Program, serving as the Associate Chief Nursing Officer.
Prior to joining HCA Healthcare, Pittman started his career in healthcare as an ICU nurse at Houston Methodist after graduating from The University of Texas at Austin. It was here that Pittman’s interest in transplant began, first as an ICU nurse and later as a member of the transplant team.
Pittman has an extensive experience in transplant quality and served as a quality consultant for transplant programs, he was a founding faculty member of the Transplant Quality Institute, and has served on several quality conference planning committees. It is this background in quality that has contributed to the successful oversight of the inpatient dialysis service line.
For the past 20 years, Pittman’s contributions to the transplant community have been realized through serving out appointments on various OPTN and UNOS committees. Pittman has served as a regional representative, Vice-Chair and Chair of the Transplant Administrators Committee; an At-Large Member on the OPTN/UNOS Policy and Oversight Committee; Ad-hoc Member of the OPTN Geography Committee; Ex-Officio of the Transplant Administrators Committee and is an advisor on the OPTN Network Operations Oversight Committee. More recently, Pittman completed a three-year term on the Visiting Committee for the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients; is on the OPTN TaskForce for Efficiency; and is a member of the UNOS Board of Directors
