John Cover

John has over 25 years of blood and tissue banking experience with 17 years in whole body donation and tissue transplant recovery and processing. John developed Arizona's first placenta recovery program and Arizona’s only other Musculo-skeletal/corneal recovery program. John previously held pivotal roles with Vitalent, American Red Cross Biomedical Services, Science Care, Transplant For Life & Research For Life. John spent his entire career fighting for increased regulation of tissue banks and wrote the American Association of Tissue Banks first Standards for Non-transplant Anatomic Donation Organizations. John recently successfully drafted and lobbied for changes to Arizona’s Uniform Anatomical Gift Act that requires licensure by the State Department of Health for all non-transplant tissue banks. John also drafted Rep. Gosar’s bill HR5318 Label and Transport Tissues Safety Act for the US Congress and served as a Governor appointed Commissioner with the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission.