Medicine Grand Rounds

"Challenges and changes in deceased donor kidney allocation"
Richard Formica, MD

Richard N. Formica Jr, MD. Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Director of Transplant Medicine, Yale University. Dr. Formica is a practicing transplant nephrologist.  He is the Director of Transplant Medicine and the Medical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Yale University School of Medicine. He is currently the President of the American Society of Transplantation and the OPTN/UNOS Regional 1 Associate Counselor and the Region 1 Representative to the OPTN/UNOS Membership and Professional Standards Committee.  Dr. Formica has extensive expertise in the area of public policy as it pertains to the solid organ transplantation.  He been an active participant in the United Network of Organ Sharing since 2009.   During this involvement he held leadership positions as the Chairman of the Kidney Paired Donation Work Group, the Kidney Transplantation Committee and the Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation Working Group.  In these roles, he participated in the design, public vetting and implementation of public policy regarding, living kidney donation, deceased donor kidney allocation and the medically appropriated and fair allocation of deceased donor kidneys with deceased donor livers.  Dr. Formica has been involved with the Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation since inception, having been a site PI on CTOT-1, CTOT-9, CTOT -17 and currently is the site PI for CTOT -19.  Dr. Formica has authored or co-authored 79 peer reviewed manuscripts and numerous book chapters.  He is currently the Associate Editor for the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology responsible for the transplant portfolio.

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
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