Advisory Board

Joan Bishop is Executive Director and Conference Coordinator for the Oley Foundation—a national non-profit organization that provides information and support to patients with intestinal failure and consumers of parenteral nutrition. She has been with Oley since 1985—nearly its inception—and has served in many capacities, including the growth and development of the organization.

As Executive Director, Joan handles a multitude of tasks to keep Oley running and growing. She is responsible for budget planning, building relationships, advocacy efforts, fundraising, board development, and coordinating the annual conference. She is dedicated to fulfilling the Foundation’s mission and welcomes all ideas, comments, and criticisms.

John K. DiBaise, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and a Consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. DiBaise has published over 200 original articles, reviews, chapters, books and editorials. In addition, he is an active clinical investigator and educator focusing on gastrointestinal motility and nutrition-related disorders. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology and an active member of the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, and the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He is currently Associate Editor of the American Journal of Gastroenterology and recently completed serving as Associate Editor of Nutrition in Clinical Practice.  He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. He completed his Gastroenterology and Hepatology fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. Dr. DiBaise received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Dr. Ronald Potts is Quality Improvement Medical Director for Kaiser Permanente National Transplant Services and Chief Medical Officer for INTERLINK COE Networks and Programs. Now in his third career, Dr. Potts has been playing these two roles for the last 10 and 12 years respectively, involving quality oversight of contracted transplant facilities and programs in both solid organ and blood and marrow transplantation for Kaiser nationally, and for both Interlink’s Transplant Program and CancerCare initiative.

He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine with post-graduate training at the University of California, Irvine. His clinical career spanned the rise of Emergency Medicine as a recognized specialty in which he was very active beginning in 1973 with practice at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Portland, Oregon, and as clinical director for Kaiser’s affiliated Emergency Medicine residency program at the Oregon Health Science University. He led the development of the pre-hospital care system (911) in the tri-county area around Portland and participated in the development of the innovative Oregon state-wide trauma system.

In his 2nd career and up to his retirement in 2005, he served executive roles within the Kaiser Permanente Medical Groups including Executive Medical Director for two of Kaiser’s 8 regions. He retired form KP Northwest as medical director of Quality and Systems which involved quality systems development and management, population health management, health services research, physician education, leadership development, legal medicine, and other related healthcare improvement endeavors.

He currently serves on several committees of the NMDP and ASBMT, and is a team member of  Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Biological Innovation project on the financing of high-cost durable therapies. He has spoken to many groups in the solid organ and blood/marrow transplant fields about quality assessment and payer interests. He and his wife Karen are classical pianists performing two-piano works for audiences here and abroad.

Dr. Kelly Tappenden is Professor and Head of the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Tappenden’s research program focuses on intestinal failure, mechanisms of intestinal adaptation and patient malnutrition. For these contributions, she has received multiple awards, published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and delivered over 400 invited lectures. Dr. Tappenden served as the 33rd President of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in 2008-09, Chair of the Nutrition, Metabolism and Obesity section of the American Gastroenterology Association Institute from 2009-13, and represents the American Society for Nutrition on the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Currently, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.