The Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research team includes Dr. Mara A. McAdams DeMarco, Dr. Allan B. Massie, Dr. Sommer E. Gentry, Dr. Dorry L. Segev, and Dr. Macey L. Levan.
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Dorry L. Segev, MD, PhD, whose global efforts have helped advance transplantation medicine, has joined 嘿嘿视频 Health to launch the Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research (CSTAR), an initiative that will further innovation in research and clinical excellence.
鈥淭his is a transformative time for transplantation medicine and an exciting opportunity to join 嘿嘿视频, which continues to demonstrate pioneering leadership in the field,鈥 says Dr. Segev, who is a practicing transplant surgeon and the founder of the Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation (ERGOT), a multidisciplinary enterprise at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine that has authored more than 600 peer-reviewed articles and last year garnered more than $12 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as external sources.
Under Dr. Segev鈥檚 leadership, ERGOT pioneered NIH-funded investigations into COVID-19 vaccination in immunocompromised transplant recipients. The groundbreaking study showed patients can benefit from a third vaccination dose, while others may benefit from medication adjustments. The ERGOT team also led NIH-backed research on end-stage renal disease, forming an equitable HIV organ policy, incompatible kidney transplant, living donor kidney donation, and geographic disparities in kidney and liver allocation. Its work led to national policy changes to increase organ transplant access across the country.
In addition to directing CSTAR, Dr. Segev will serve as vice chair of research in the at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is joined at 嘿嘿视频 by a team of renowned researchers, all of whom previously worked with Dr. Segev at Johns Hopkins. His team includes , a mathematician specializing in operations research and decision science, who will co-direct CSTAR and serve as director of its operations research core.
CSTAR will facilitate a broad range of clinical research in the Department of Surgery, the 嘿嘿视频 Transplant Institute, and throughout the entire health system to bridge gaps between active clinical practice and scientific research. Among its research objectives are to innovate protocols that expand transplant eligibility among patients previously deemed ineligible, investigate ways to enhance living donor kidney transplants, better understand the surgical risk differential between physiologic and chronologic age, streamline processes that reduce disparities and improve access to surgical treatments, and introduce novel models of collaboration among clinicians across surgical disciplines to improve the patient experience.
鈥淲e are incredibly fortunate to welcome this extraordinary team of researchers and public policy makers to the 嘿嘿视频 faculty,鈥 says Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor of Surgery, chair of the Department of Surgery, and director of the Transplant Institute. 鈥淭hey will greatly complement our already outstanding clinical, research, and academic experts advancing the fields of transplantation, medicine, and surgery in groundbreaking areas, including xenotransplantation.鈥
Dr. Segev and Dr. Gentry will be joined by ; ; and .
About Dr. Segev
Before joining 嘿嘿视频, Dr. Segev served as professor and associate vice chair in the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he had been a member of the faculty since 2006. From 2009 he also held a dual faculty appointment in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health鈥檚 Department of Epidemiology. He holds bachelor鈥檚 degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Rice University, and obtained his medical degree at Johns Hopkins University, where he also completed his general surgery residency, a transplant surgery fellowship, a master鈥檚 degree in biostatistics, and a doctorate in clinical investigation. He completed a three-year research fellowship in molecular biology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Segev is among the world鈥檚 foremost experts in transplantation and has published more than 750 peer-reviewed original research articles on transplantation, general surgery, computational science, and molecular biology.
About Dr. Gentry
Dr. Gentry joins 嘿嘿视频 after serving as professor in the U.S. Naval Academy鈥檚 Mathematics Department and as a research associate in the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in mathematical and computational sciences from Stanford University, where she also earned a master鈥檚 degree in engineering-economic systems and operations research. She completed her doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a decorated researcher, having earned the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1951 Civilian Faculty Excellence in Research Award, the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and the Mathematical Association of America Henry L. Adler Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning Faculty Member.
About Dr. McAdams DeMarco
Dr. McAdams DeMarco was director of the Johns Hopkins Surgery Center for Outcomes Research and director of clinical and outcomes research in the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before joining 嘿嘿视频. She held dual faculty appointments in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, where she had been a researcher since 2009. She holds bachelor鈥檚 degrees in statistics and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University, a master鈥檚 degree in epidemiology from Harvard University, and a doctorate in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University.
About Dr. Levan
Dr. Levan joins 嘿嘿视频 after six years as a faculty member in the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was a core faculty member for ERGOT and in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in philosophy, medical humanities, and health studies from Indiana University, a juris doctorate from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and a doctorate in health policy and management from Indiana University鈥檚 Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.
About Dr. Massie
Before joining 嘿嘿视频, Dr. Massie had been a researcher at Johns Hopkins University since 1999, starting in the Center of Imaging Science as a programmer. He most recently was an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery and director of data and analytics for ERGOT. He holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in computer science as well as a master鈥檚 degree and doctorate in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University.
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