Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Organ trafficking research

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 Frederike Ambagtsheer  is the principal investigator of a Dutch project conducting  organ trafficking research , whose website  discusses t...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

A passionate proponent of transplants is (temporarily) unregistered as a donor: Greg Segal in the NYT

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I'm a little shaken to learn that (even*) Greg Segal has temporarily suspended his registration as a potential deceased organ donor.  My...
Monday, September 7, 2026

A.I. in health care in Paris

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Here's tomorrow's conference agenda  for the opening day of the  Redefining Health Care in the Age of A.I. conference in Paris.  Phi...
Saturday, September 5, 2026

Redefining Healthcare in the Age of A.I., Paris, Sept 8-10

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 I'm in Paris, for the conference  Redefining Healthcare in the Age of AI   "The Paris Institute for Transplantation and Organ Rege...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

How heart transplants gave birth to brain death (new book by Basil Baccouche)

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  Basil Baccouche has a forthcoming book, which I found pretty thrilling: The End of Death: A Surgeon, a Heart Transplant, and the Fight to...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Public attitudes towards deceased organ donation and allocation in china

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 Deceased  organ donation in China does not  yet have overwhelming public support although receiving a deceased donor organ transplant does:...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Deceased organ donation by Ashlagi and Roth in the Annual Review of Economics (with open questions)

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 Here's a review paper concentrating primarily on transplantation of  organs (primarily kidneys) from deceased donors. It closes with a ...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Delayed feedback on a controversial talk--and some positive signals of potential for change

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 One feature of giving talks to unfamiliar audiences is that you only get noisy feedback on how your talk was received.  This past June, I g...
Monday, June 22, 2026

A rogue's gallery of transplant heroes (following ATC2026)

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 After my talk yesterday at the American Transplant Congress, I had lunch with a table of transplant heroes, Joe Tector , Peter Friend , J...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Starzl Lecture: "The Economics of Kidney Exchange," Sunday at the American Transplant Congress in Boston

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  I'll be speaking Sunday at the American Transplant Congress, on kidney exchange.  It will be hard to squeeze in all the recent develop...
Monday, June 1, 2026

The American Society of Transplantation prepares to consider a pilot study of financial incentives for living organ donation

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 As I prepare to speak later this month at the American Transplant Congress in Boston , I note that  the American Society of Transplantation...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Kidneys and Moral Economics in the Financial Times

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I spoke about economics with Keynes (Soumaya) in the FT: Nobel laureate Al Roth and the economics of organ sales      "The economist Al...
Friday, May 15, 2026

The Organ Donation Dilemma: Ethics, Economics, and Life-Saving Solutions: Debate at Hopkins, today

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Today's debate at Hopkins aims to focus on the proposed End Kidney Deaths Act.   The Organ Donation Dilemma: Ethics, Economics, and Life...
Friday, May 8, 2026

It’s time to carefully but urgently rethink payments to kidney donors. My op-ed in the Washington Post

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 This morning the Washington Post published my op-ed online (which is scheduled to appear in the print edition on Sunday). 800 words is hard...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Funeral expenses for deceased organ donors in Taiwan

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 In Taiwan, the Ministry of Health and Welfare helps pay for the funerals of deceased organ donors.  From the Taiwan Organ Sharing Registry ...
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...