LifeShare Network Names New Chief Medical Officer

OKLAHOMA CITY (April 1, 2024) – LifeShare Network announced Ron Squires, M.D. has been named Chief Medical Officer effective April 1.

LifeShare Network is the organization in Oklahoma responsible for organ and tissue donation.

In this role, Squires is responsible for the development, implementation and revision of the medical processes, procedures, policies and education that maximize organ and tissue recovery for human transplantation and research to advance organ donation and transplantation.

“We are excited to introduce Dr. Squires as our new Chief Medical Officer. We embrace his exceptional medical expertise, but also his vision and passion for advancing our mission,” said Jeffrey Orlowski, President and Chief Executive Officer at LifeShare Network. “Dr. Squires’ leadership will be instrumental in allowing us to save more lives through donation”.

​Dr. Squires has more than 35 years’ experience in Surgery and most recently was a Professor of Surgery with tenure at the University of Oklahoma. During his time with the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Squires also served as the Medical Director at LifeShare Network.
He studied medicine at the University of Missouri – Kansas City with a residency at the University of Oklahoma.

LifeShare Network
LifeShare Network, Inc. serves as the parent company for LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Inc., the only federally authorized Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) for the state of Oklahoma, LifeShare Tissue Services, Inc., and LifeShare Innovations, LLC. The LifeShare Network and its subsidiaries exist with community support from the LifeShare Foundation, Inc. The LifeShare Network, Inc. serves as the administrative resource to its subsidiaries allowing them to focus on their primary functions of procuring more organs and tissue resulting in more lives saved.