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Team Managers and Liaisons
Take a moment to get to know our Team MO-KAN Managers and Liaisons. Our team managers and liaisons provide countless hours of behind the scenes volunteer planning and organization for our team members.
Chris Paxton, Team Manager
Get to know Chris Paxton, Team MO-KAN Manager.
Chris has a degree in Graphic Design from the University of Central Missouri. He received a kidney transplant from his father Greg at the age of 21 as a result of kidney failure brought on by Alport Syndrome. He attended his first transplant games in 1998 and has been attended every games since with the exception of 2012, competing in basketball, bowling, cycling, track and field, 5K run and volleyball. He served as team captain for Team USA Cycling to the World Transplant Games in 2003, in Nancy, France. He has also competed in various international games, including the World Transplant Games in Nancy, France and London, Ontario Canada as well as the Australian National Transplant Games.
Chris resides in Lee’s Summit, Missouri with his wife Valerie.
Ray Gabel, Team Manager
Get to know Ray Gabel, Team MO-KAN Manager.
Ray has a degree in communications from Ottawa University. In 1991, he received his first heart transplant at the age of 24 at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO. Ray led the first transplant team to represent the Kansas City area at the 1992 U.S. Transplant Games hosted by the National Kidney Foundation. He has remained active with Team MO-KAN since 1992 and worked for the Midwest Transplant Network from 1995 until 2016. Ray received an ACL replacement in 2010 and his second heart transplant in 2012.
Ray resides in Overland Park, Kansas with his wife Susan who received a liver transplant in 1995.
Kelly Falwell, Cornea and Tissue Liaison
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Curtisha Anderson, Minority and Diversity Liaison
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Nichole Asquith, Donor Registry Liaison
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Lori Triggs, Living Donor Liaison
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Teri Conterio, Donor Family Liaison
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Our Mission
To raise awareness of the life-saving importance of organ, corneal and tissue donation through the lives of our donor families, living donors, and organ, eye and tissue recipients and those awaiting transplantation in the states of Kansas and Missouri. To increase the number of individuals registering to be organ, eye and tissue donors in Kansas and Missouri by participating in local and regional awareness events promoting organ, eye and tissue donation.
Contact Us
Team MO-KAN
626 NE Clubhouse Drive
Lee’s Summit, MO 64086
Phone: (816) 304-4914
info@teammokan.org