Golnaz Friedman receives national transplant dietitian award

We are honored to share that Golnaz Friedman, MS, RD, CCTD, received the 2025 Jeanette Hasse Distinguished Transplant Dietitian Award. 

The Jeanette Hasse Distinguished Transplant Dietitian Award recognizes a registered dietitian who has advanced transplant nutrition through patient care, education, research, innovation, and service. 

Award criteria include:

• meaningful impact on transplant nutrition practice
• leadership in promoting transplant nutrition and transplant dietitians
• significant professional accomplishments.

Friedman has been a transplant dietitian for eleven years at UC Davis Health, where she now serves as outpatient dietitian supervisor and senior transplant dietitian. She has led major improvements in transplant nutrition care, including expanding the transplant RD team, developing standardized dietitian competencies, and redesigning functional status testing to improve pre-transplant identification of risk. Her leadership extends to QAPI initiatives, transplant research, and mentoring new transplant dietitians.

Friedman has contributed extensively to national transplant nutrition education through presentations, abstracts, and manuscript submissions, including helping publish the groundbreaking paper “A Standardized Framework for Transplant-Specific Competencies for Dietitians”.  She actively supports the Living Donor Community of Practice through the American Society of Transplantation.  Her colleagues describe her as a passionate clinician, mentor, and advocate whose work has elevated transplant nutrition practice within her center and beyond.

Please join us in congratulating Golnaz Friedman as the 2025 recipient of the Jeanette Hasse Distinguished Transplant Dietitian Award!