June 20, 2024_From Crisis to Classroom: Policy Course Teaches Leaders How to Handle BIG Problems
James Olds: ‘Not panicking is the easy part,’ he says of his course that teaches students how to manage large-scale public policy problems.
February 22, 2024_Poverty Fuels Kidney Trafficking in Bangladesh
Meng-Hao Li and colleagues released research indicating that poverty prompted 83% of kidney sales in Kalai Upazila, Bangladesh, known for kidney trafficking.
August 31, 2023_Organ trafficking: The dark side of kidney exchange
Naoru Koizumi: I always remember that someone I know in the transplant community once told me that if you allow organ trafficking organ sales as a society we’ll end up with all rich healthy people who have two kidneys while poor people are walking around with just one kidney.
Media Appearance
- Feb. 20, 2023: Yomiuri News “Policy Revision on Organ Brokering”
- WUSA “This 33-year-old has already had 2 kidney transplants. He was one of the lucky ones. Here’s his story”
- LORD, MARY. “UP CLOSE: NETWORK SLEUTH.” ASEE Prism 28, no. 8 (2019): 18–20.
- July 20, 2023: Yomiuri News “Investigation on Turkish Organ Broker”
Recent Publication
Froehlich, M., Koizumi, N., James, R., Christian, A. G. W., Choubey, A, Patel, S., Ortiz, J. and Siskind, E., “The Use of Vasopressors During Deceased Donor Pancreas Procurement Decreases the Risk of Pancreas Transplant Graft Failure”, Pancreas, [Accepted, May 2022] (IF: 3.33)
Nicholas Robichaud, Jessica L. Rosenberg, James L. Olds “Revisiting NSF’s Founding Compromise”, Issues in Science and Technology, April 2022
Serpico S., Parsikia, R., Goodarzi, A., James, R., Koizumi, N., and Ortiz, J. “Suicide Amongst Transplant Recipients: Trends and Unique Risk Factors”, Clin Transplant., April 2022;e14385. http://doi.org/10.1111/ctr.14669 (IF: 2.86)
Akerlof, Karen L., Kristin MF Timm, Katherine E. Rowan, James L. Olds, and Julia Hathaway. “The Growth and Disciplinary Convergence of Environmental Communication: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Field (1970–2019).” Frontiers in Environmental Science (2022): 740.
Chiodo, Ortiz C., Choubey, AP, Shrivastava, S., Koizumi, N., Nayebpour, M., Ortiz, J. “Preemptive renal transplant: too early is not always better—a national cohort study”. International Urology and Nephrology 2022, Jan. 20:1-1, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-021-03086-0 (IF: 2.37)
Weaver, L., Espinales, J., Koizumi, N., Giffen Z., Schneider, D., Ortiz, J. MD “Multiple Organ Deceased Donation is Associated with Superior Graft and Transplant Recipient Outcomes Compared to Kidney-Only Donation”, Exp Clin Transplant 2022, Jan. 1;20(1):12-8. DOI: 10.6002/ect.2021.0371 (IF: 0.95)
Siddique, A.B., Haynes, K.E., Kulkarni, R., and Li, M.H. Regional poverty and infection disease: early exploratory evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Annals of Regional Science. 2022 Jan 25:1-28 (IF:2.65).