Baker, Gavin
Researcher I
Brooks, Sydney
Researcher II
Major Research Interests
Major research interest includes health disparities in race and gender, in particular how this affects people in rural settings .
Cannon, Robert M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Major Research Interests
liver transplantation, minimally invasive hepatic surgery, surgical management of portal hypertension, surgical management of polycystic liver disease, comprehensive management of benign and malignant hepatobiliary tumors, including hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma
Carter, Alexis, B.S.
Clinical Research Coordinator I
Major Research Interests
Carter is a researcher I whose major research interest includes educational awareness of kidney transplantation and exploring methods to increase living donor kidney transplantation rates.
Gray, Meagan, MD
Assistant Professor of Hepatology
Major Research Interests
Nutrition, fatty liver disease and transplant hepatology
Jones, Bernarez, B.S.
Researcher I
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include health disparities in race, gender, and age in both rural and city settings.
Kale, Cozette, M.D.
General Surgery Resident
Major Research Interests
Dr. Kale is a general surgery resident with research interests including racial disparities in living donor kidney transplantation, mixed methods research, health disparities in access to healthcare among patients with ESRD, Transplant policy and organ allocation practices, and combined heart and kidney transplantation.
Kloda, David, SA, PA-C, MSPH
Lab Manager/Program Manager
Major Research Interests
A Surgeon’s Assistant/Physician Assistant with extensive training in Cardiovascular surgery, Peripheral Vascular Surgery, Thoracic Surgery and Abdominal Transplant Surgery. Research interests include: Solid organ transplantation outcomes and living renal donor surgical outcomes.
Kumar, Vineeta M.D, F.A.S.T
Professor of Medicine
Major Research Interest
Dr. Kumar is a kidney transplant nephrologist that specializes in medical evaluation of living kidney donors and care of kidney and pancreas transplant recipients as well as the transplantation of incompatible organs both HLA and ABO and in the care of highly sensitized transplant recipients. Her research interests include access to living kidney donation and solid organ transplants, outcomes in donors after living kidney donation and in recipients of kidney transplant.
Locke, Jayme, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., F.A.S.T.
Director, TEAM
Associate Professor of Surgery
Major Research Interests
Dr. Locke is an abdominal transplant surgeon that specializes in innovative strategies for the transplantation of incompatible organs, disparities in access to and outcomes after solid organ transplantation, and transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients. Her research interests include complex statistical analysis and modeling of transplant outcomes and behavioral research focused on health disparities.
MacLennan, Paul, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Major Research Interests
Research interests include: quality and patient safety, solid organ transplantation outcomes, ocular epidemiology and health disparities, injury epidemiology (occupational, motor vehicle collision, trauma), cancer epidemiology (prostate cancer, prostate cancer screening), occupational epidemiology (pesticide manufacturing workers, injury), and epidemiology research methods.
Maynor, Andrew, B.S.
Researcher I
Major Research Interests
Major Research Interest include following up with living kidney donors and understanding outcomes of obese living donors.
Mustian, Margaux, M.D.
General Surgery Resident
Major Research Interests
Dr. Mustian is a general surgery resident with research interests including health disparities and access to healthcare among kidney transplant patients, ABO incompatible organ transplantation, transplantation policy, and the relationship between obesity and the development of kidney disease for living kidney donors.
Orandi, Babak M.D., Ph.D, M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Major Research Interest
Major research interest include liver transplantation, obesity in end-stage organ disease, pediatric liver transplantation, and acute liver failure.
Padilla, Luz, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Surgery
Major Research Interests
Dr. Padilla is an epidemiologist interested in minority and racial health disparities related to surgical outcomes among patients with congenital heart disease. She is also involved in global health research, heart transplant and xenotransplantation.
Perry, Jackson
Researcher I
Purvis, Joshua, B.S.
Research Assistant
Major Research Interests
Purvis is a second year medical student and is studying how recipient outcomes are effected by the degree of liver allograft macrosteatosis as well as the use of bariatric surgery before and after transplantation.
Qu, Haiyan, Ph.D, MSHA
Associate Professor
Major Research Interests
Dr. Qu’s research interests include patient-centered outcomes research, health disparities, rehabilitation care, quality of care, medication adherence, and shared decision-making. She has published articles in Journal of General Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, American Journal of Health Behavior, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, The Journal of Rheumatology, and American Journal of Transplantation. She has served as a grant reviewer for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute since 2013.
Reed, Rhiannon, DrPH
Assistant Professor
Major Research Interests
Dr. Rhiannon Reed is an epidemiologist/clinical data analyst with a focus on long-term care of living kidney donors and organ transplant policy. She has interests in qualitative and mixed methods research, as well as dissemination and implementation science, particularly regarding education efforts to increase organ donation awareness
Robinson, Tayana, B.S.
Research I
Major Research Interests
Major research interests includes mental health servicing minorities in low-income communities and psychotherapy.
Sawinski, Deirdre, M.D., FAST
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Major Research Interests
Deirdre Sawinski is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine in the Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division. She is also the Assistant Medical Director of the Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Program and a practicing transplant nephrologist. Her work focuses on outcomes for renal transplant recipients with chronic viral infections including HIV, HCV, and BK. She is also interested in questions of donor selection (both living and deceased) as well as ways to increase the available organ donor pool. Dr. Sawinski was awarded an R-21 to study outcomes for patients receiving chronic dialysis who have hepatitis C.
Shelton, Brittany, M.P.H.
Researcher IV
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include health disparities and access to health care, particularly among HIV-infected patients, as they pertain to health care policy, cost-effectiveness, and decision-making analysis.
Stanford, Luke, B.S.
Researcher I
Sutzko, Danielle, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Surgery Associate Program Director, Vascular Surgery Residency
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include health services research, specifically areas related to defining appropriate quality of care in vascular surgery, and cost effectiveness of vascular interventions for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI).
