Staff

Claire has almost seventeen years of experience working as a registered nurse. For over the last eleven years, her career has been focused in ESRD as the unit coordinator of an incenter hemodialysis unit. She is excited to join the team at Midwest Kidney Network, as she is passionate about quality improvement and enhancing the lives of patients beyond the bedside through working on population health.

Candy has twenty years of experience working in the ESRD community. Specifically, her clinical experience includes acute dialysis, chronic incenter dialysis, vascular access, and home peritoneal dialysis. She also has experience in clinic administration for home dialysis PD & HHD. In addition to working in ESRD, Candy has worked in critical care nursing and community mental health.  

Alli has more than twelve years of experience as a dialysis patient care technician, vascular access manager, home dialysis educator, and EQRS Lead. She has been a part of the Midwest Kidney Network Data Team since 2019, specializing in EQRS facility support and technical assistance.

DJ has a background in a wide variety of industries such as Renewable Energy and Finance, but joined us in 2022 after 8 years as a Facility Administrator for DaVita. Now supporting one of the largest ESRD Networks in the US, he is passionate about providing communications and improved data visibility and results to all dialysis operations and transplant centers we support. DJ enjoys working with patients, dialysis facilities, clinicians, and support staff towards the mutual goal of performing high quality dialysis.

Liza’s dialysis social work career includes experience working in outpatient dialysis clinics, as well as inpatient hospital settings. She enjoys her work with dialysis patients and providers. Liza also enjoys addressing the mental health and palliative care needs of the ESRD community. She supports the Patient Services Team as a Patient Services Coordinator.