The Risk Assessment/Economic Workgroup is a collaboration between the Institute for Healthcare Studies, the Division of Organ Transplantation and other interested parties that focuses on research of risk assessment to determine effective predictors of outcomes in organ donation and transplantation. In addition to patient outcomes the workgroup also focuses on healthcare costs and reimbursement issues resulting from donation and transplantation from the payer, patient, and societal perspectives. We endeavor to improve donor and recipient decision-making resulting in high quality, cost-effective long-term health outcomes.

Group Leader
Kevin Stroupe , PhD
Research Scientist
Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3)
Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Hines VA Hospital
Research Associate Professor
Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University

Members
Michael Abecassis, MD
Zeeshan Butt, PhD
Yaojen Chang, PhD
Amna Daud, MD, MPH
Joseph Feinglass, PhD
John Friedewald, MD
John Fryer, MD
Elisa Gordon, PhD
Gordon Hazen, PhD
Colleen Jay, MD
Daniela Ladner, MD
Luke Preczewski
Anton Skaro, MD, PhD
Bridget Smith, PhD
Edward Wang, PhD

Publications & Presentations
Chakkera HA, O'Hare AM, Johansen KL, Colin PM, Stroupe K, Hynes D, Chertow GM. Influence of Race on Kidney Transplant Outcomes within and outside the Department of Veterans Affairs. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2005;16(1):269-277. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15563568

Gordon EJ, Prohaska TR, Sehgal AR. The Financial Impact of Immunosuppressant Expenses on New Kidney Transplant Recipients. Clinical Transplantation 2008; (In Press). [PMID: 18673373] epub July 21, 2008.

Kim SJ, Gordon EJ, Powe N. The Economics and Ethics of Kidney Transplantation: Perspectives in 2006. Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension 2006;15(6):593-598. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17053473

Gordon EJ. The Ethics of Medicare Policy: Increasing Transplant Access and Survival. DePaul Law Review 2006;54(3):101-122.

Jay C, Skaro A, Baker T, Pasricha S, Preczewski L, Wang E, Abecassis M. Donation after Cardiac Death Liver Transplantation: Possible Predictors of Ischemic Cholangiopathy [abstract]. American Society of Transplant Surgeons Winter Symposium Marco Island, Florida 2009.

Baker T, Jay CL, Ladner DP, Preczewski LB, Clark L, Abecassis M. Laparoscopy-assisted and Open Living Liver Donation: A Comparison of Outcomes and Cost [abstract]. The Central Surgical Association Annual Meeting. Sarasota, Florida 2009.

Jay C, Skaro A, Baker T, Pasricha S, Preczewski L, Wang E, Abecassis M. Donation after Cardiac Death Liver Transplantation  [abstract]. The Central Surgical Association Annual Meeting. Sarasota, Florida 2009.

Jay C, Skaro A, Lyuksemburg V, Caicedo JC, Abecassis M. Ischemic Cholangiopathy After Donation After Cardiac Death and Donation After Brain Death Liver Transplantation - A Meta-Analysis  [abstract]. American Transplant Congress. Boston, Massachusetts 2009