Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Alex Chan on market design and organ transplants (and how to begin a video)

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Alex Chan, at HBS:)  https://youtu.be/8n6A9wO1yt0?si=VsaT0AVNgYc7VdnB
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Redesigning transplant and OPO center incentives (Chan and Roth in JAMA; Bae, Sweat, Melcher and Ashlagi in JAMA Surgery)

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  Chan A, Roth AE. Reimagining Transplant Center Incentives Beyond the CMS IOTA Model. JAMA. Published online January 26, 2026. doi:10.1001...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Offering deceased donor transplants out of sequence when there is a chance the organ will (otherwise) be unutilized (Ashlagi and Roth in AJOB)

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  Itai Ashlagi and I weigh in on recent controversy about "out of sequence" offers of organs for transplant, with some ideas about...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Transplant problems and public support for organ donation

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  The Kidney Transplant Collaborative is worried about the status of kidney transplants in the US.  Here's the statement they published...
Friday, January 2, 2026

UNOS continues to run the deceased-donor organ allocation system

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 The U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) has published a document outlining its progress in modernizing the Organ Pro...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

A rare -directed- deceased donor kidney transplant

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 Most organ transplants come from deceased donors, and the vast majority of these deceased donor organs are allocated by a regulated system ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Interview about the new edition of the Chinese translation of Who Gets What and Why

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 Last month I was interviewed in connection with the new edition of the Chinese translation of my 2015 book Who Gets What and Why.   Here is...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

The national politics of deceased organ donation

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 The U.S. transplant system is relatively open to foreign patients, and the NYT reports with some concern the number of foreign citizens rec...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The local politics of deceased organ donation

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 "All politics is local" may not be entirely true, but local politics doesn't end at death. MedPage Today has the story:  Sena...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Kidney exchange updates

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 Here are three kidney papers and proposals that I've noted recently,  which will have implications for the growing interest in internat...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Facing up to face transplants: Pioneering transplants and their pioneering patients

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The history of transplantation involves not only pioneering surgeons, but also pioneering patients.  Face transplants are yet another comple...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Organ procurement centers (OPOs) are responding to changes in their performance evaluations (by Bae, Sweat, Melcher and Ashlagi in JAMA Surgery)

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 Here Bae H, Sweat KR, Melcher ML, Ashlagi I. Organ Procurement Following the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Performance Evaluat...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ethical considerations and global cooperaton in transplantation, Wednesday in Cairo

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It's Wednesday morning in Cairo, and here's today's conference  schedule , which will include discussion of (and voting on) glob...

Join the global call for change at DLE--Invitation to Cairo

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  After being invited to this week's  International Transplant Week in Egypt,  , I was invited to invite others.  (To hear my very brie...
Friday, November 7, 2025

International Transplant Week in Egypt, 2025

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 I'm preparing to spend next week in Cairo at the Donate Life Egypt 2025 International Transplant Week , where I'll give a talk on T...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Funeral expense reimbursement to enhance organ donation and transplantation , by Chan and Sweat

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 It's legal to pay funeral expenses for whole-body donors (for research) but not for organ donors for transplantation.  Here's a cal...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Pig liver to human transplant: in China: a short story that may get longer...

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 Here's a forthcoming article in the Journal of Hepatology. Pioneering transplantation often provides tragic short stories of first atte...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Grace Guan defends her dissertation at Stanford

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 Grace Guan defended her Ph.D. dissertation this past Friday. Welcome to the club, Grace.       Here's my earlier post about one of the...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

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A tale of bureaucracy, in two acts  1.  NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center , was for a long time the only ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Recommendations From the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee

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 The arc of history turns towards technology. I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed.  Evolving Ethical...