Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, UNOS Foundation
Vicki Sauer is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the UNOS Foundation. She oversees all fundraising and development activities.
Ms. Sauer has been with UNOS since 1990. She began her career as a cardiovascular and visceral angiography technician at the University of Florida Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville. In 1973, she joined the Nalle Clinic Kidney Center in Charlotte, NC, one of the first kidney dialysis facilities in the Southeast. She was a dialysis technician for several years and then became administrator, responsible for the staffing and operations of 90 professionals in seven kidney facilities. These facilities provided direct pre- and post- transplant care to more than 600 patients.
In 1983, Ms. Sauer established V. Haas and Associates, opening three dialysis clinics in Raleigh, Charlotte and Monroe, NC. This involved obtaining certificates of need for these facilities through local, state, and federal agencies. Ms. Sauer served on the American Kidney Fund's Board of Directors from 1980 to 1982, and subsequently became the group's fundraising consultant from 1982 to 1985.