Keeping InSight

KIDNEY TRANSPLANT | Dr. Sumit Mohan | Identifying and Addressing Disparities in Kidney Transplantation

June 26, 2023 Sanofi US General Medicines Medical Season 1 Episode 5

In this episode our co-hosts Sara Hammad, PharmD (US Transplant Associate Medical Director) and Tracy Chen, PharmD (US Transplant Senior MSL) have a conversation with Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center, about disparities seen throughout the kidney transplant process. Dr. Mohan discusses the challenges seen with health disparities at all time points from a patient’s journey through kidney transplantation, and ways we could potentially overcome these disparities as a kidney transplant community.  

Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Supporting literature and resources:  

  1. “Early Effect of the Circular Model of Kidney Allocation in the United States” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36302599/ 
  2. “Major Variation across Local Transplant Centers in Probability of Kidney Transplant for Wait-Listed Patients” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33037131/ 
  3. “Greater complexity and monitoring of the new Kidney Allocation System: Implications and unintended consequences of concentric circle kidney allocation on network complexity” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33314637/ 

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