Science and Collaborations

A Consortium for the Holistic Assessment of Risk in Transplant

Assessing Multi-Level Barriers to Racial Equity in Living Liver Donor Transplantation

Examining the Benefit of LCP Tracrolimus in Patients with Social Deprivation (Sponsored by Veloxis)

Creating a Multidimensional Data Architecture to Improve Equity in Organ Transplantation

Development of Common Data Elements for Organ Transplantation.
McElroy LM, Rogers U, Nichols L, Bhavsar NA, Schappe T, Harding T, Harding J, Strauss, A, Gordon EJ, Ross-Driscoll K, Deirhoi-Reed R, Chan N, Henson JB, Ng Y, Taber D, Milam AJ, Schold JD, Caicedo JC, Adams A, Patzer R, Berchuck SI, Matsouaka R, Gagnon J, Kirk AD On behalf of the consortium for the holistic assessment of risk in transplant (CHART). JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Apr 1;8(4):e257704. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.7704. PMID: 40293753

Development of a natural language processing algorithm to extract social determinants of health from clinician notes.
Zaribafzadeh H, Henson JB, Chan NW, Rogers U, Webster W, Schappe T, Li F, Matsouaka RA, Kirk AD, Henao R, McElroy LM. Am J Transplant. 2025 Mar 6:S1600-6135(25)00102-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.02.019.

A data pipeline for secure extraction and sharing of social determinants of health.
Schappe T, McElroy LM, Ogundolie M, Matsouaka R, Rogers U, Bhavsar NA. PLoS One. 2025;20(1):e0317215. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0317215. eCollection 2025. PMID: 39888883

Finding actionable information in the universe of data.
Gagnon J, McElroy LM. Am J Transplant. 2025 Jan 16; doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.01.004. PMID: 39824252

Quantifying Social Vulnerability and Its Impact on Health Care Delivery, Payment, and Performance.
McElroy LM, Thirukumaran CP, Velopulos CG. JAMA Surg. 2025 Feb 12; doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.6580. PMID: 39937500

CHART: Harmonizing Data for Research, Transparency and Equity.
McElroy LM, Reed RD, Gordon E, Strauss AT, Harding J, Adams A, Caicedo JC, Ross Driscoll K, Taber D, Ng YH, Bhavsar N, Patzer R, Kirk AD; Consortium for the Holistic Assessment of Risk in Transplant. Ann Surg. 2024 Jun doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000006410. PMID: 38899463

A Choir Without Harmony Is Just Noise: Accepting the Challenge of Data Harmonization in Transplantation.
Rogers U, McElroy LM. Transplantation. 2024 May 21. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005076. PMID: 38773861 

Health disparity metrics for transplant centers: Theoretical and practical considerations.
Ross-Driscoll K, Adams A, Caicedo J, Gordon E, Kirk AD, McElroy LM, Taber D, Patzer R. Transplantation. 2024 Mar 29. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004973. PMID: 38548712 

Moving toward Racial Equity in Preemptive Listing for Kidney Transplant in the United States.
McElroy LM, Schold J. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Mar 1;19(3):278-279. PMID: 38265767

Geography, inequities and the social determinants of health in transplantation. 
Ross-Driscoll K, McElroy LM, Adler J. Front Public Health. 2023 Dec 7;11:1286810. PMID: 38146478

Defining the Need for Causal Inference to Understand the Impact of Social Determinants of Health: A Primer on Behalf of the Consortium for the Holistic Assessment of Risk in Transplantation (CHART).
Bhavsar NA, Patzer RE, Taber DJ, Ross-Driscoll K, Deierhoi Reed R, Caicedo-Ramirez JC, Gordon EJ, Matsouaka RA, Rogers U, Webster W, Andrew A, Kirk AD, McElroy LM. Ann Surg Open. 2023 Sep 27;4(3):e337. PMID: 38144885

Psychosocial fitness for transplant: Factors yet unmeasured.
Henson JB, McElroy LM. Am J Transplant. 2023 Jun;23(6):705-706. PMID: 37004915