Leaders and Research Team
Regenstrief Institute President & CEO
Research Scientist, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute
Director, Transplant Research for Enhancing Access Team, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute
Leonard Betley Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
Professor, IU Fairbanks School of Public Health
Lifetime Director, Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition
Research Scientist, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute
Deputy Director, Transplant Research for Enhancing Access Team, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute
Associate Professor of Surgery, IU School of Medicine
Chair, Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition
Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Medical Director Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Emory Transplant Center
Data Chair, Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Associate Director, Health Services Research Center
Partners
IPRO End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network Program
The IPRO End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network Program serves as the Data Coordinating Center to manage data from over 117,000 ESRD patients across ESRD Networks 1, 2, 6, and 9. They maintain communications with >1800 medical directors of the dialysis facilities in these four regions and have oversight over the nearly 50 transplant centers in the region. IPRO oversees healthcare informatics, software development, and secure health data exchange. IPRO has developed an efficient process to clean data, fill in missing data, and create reports with concise, relevant information. These reports provide detailed information about referrals and evaluation within each transplant center and allow for comparison across other centers.
Regional Transplant Champions
Regional transplant “champions” have committed to working to help expand our mission to include data collection on referrals and evaluation in other regions of the country, including in the Northeast, New York, and Ohio River Valley regions.
Anne Huml, MD
Bhavna Chopra, MD
Sumit Mohan, MD
Liise Kayler, MD
Bruce Gelb, MD
Goni Katz-Greenberg, MD
Ana Rossi, MD
SEKTC
The Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition (SEKTC) is a network of key stakeholders in the kidney disease community that share the common goals of improving transplantation rates and eliminating health disparities in access to kidney transplantation in the Southeast.
Funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH)
R24MD008077: A regionally coordinated intervention to reduce racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation in the Southeastern United States (completed)
U01MD0100611: Reducing Racial Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation: the RaDIANT Regional Study (completed)
R01DK122701: Improving Quality and Access to Early Steps in Kidney Transplantation (RaDIANT Expansion) (completed)
R01DK136283: The RaDIANT Health Systems Intervention for Equity in Kidney Transplantation (current)
R01MD017080: Impact of Randomized Payment Incentives on Disparities in Home Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation (current)
Early Steps to Transplant Access Registry (E-STAR) 