Dr. LaPointe Rudow is a Senior Transplant Coordinator and Clinical Director of Living Donor Liver Transplant. Her education includes: Doctorate of Nursing Practice, Columbia University - 2005; Adult Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Certificate Program, Adelphi University - 1996; Master of Science in Nursing, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing – 1991; BSN, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing – 1987.

Dr. LaPointe Rudow has published extensively on living donor liver transplant and hears the Independent Donor Advocate Team at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation in New York. She is current President of the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO), and serves on the Board of Directors of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).