Press Releases

New KART Tool now available
Dr. Waterman and her collaborators recently published a validated assessment tool – The Knowledge Assessment of Renal Transplantation (KART 2.0) – for measuring chronic kidney disease and transplant-related knowledge. KART 2.0 advances the science of transplant education and provides researchers with a reliable assessment tool in identifying chronic kidney disease patients with the greatest need for health services.

View: https://www.newswise.com/articles/new-tool-assesses-patients-kidney-disease-related-knowledge

2024 & 2025 Academic Publications

  1. Schwartz R, Hamlin SK, Vozzella GM, Randle LN, Klahn S, Maris GJ, Waterman AD. Utilizing Telenursing to Supplement Acute Care Nursing in an Era of Workforce Shortages: A Feasibility Pilot, Computers, Informatics, and Nursing. 2024 Jan. https://doi.org/10.1097/CIN.0000000000001097
  2. Verbesey J, Thomas AG, Waterman AD, Karhadkar S, Cassell VR, Segev DL, Hogan J, Cooper M. Unrecognized Opportunities: The Landscape of Pediatric Kidney Paired Donation in the United States. Pediatric Transplantation. 2024 Jan. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/petr.14657
  3. McElroy L, Mohottige D, Cooper A, Sanoff S, Davis LA, Collins B, Gordon E, Boulware LE. Improving Health Equity in Living Donor Kidney Transplant: Application of an Implementation Science Framework. Transplantation Proceedings.  2024 Feb. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2023.12.003
  4. Waterman AD, Wood EH, Ho E, Murillo A, Menser T, Davis LA, Advani S. Aspects of living donor organ transplantation: Social issues.  In Living Donor Organ Transplantation.  Editors.  R. Gruessner, & E. Benedetti, 2024, Elsevier.
  5. Lui E, Gill J, Hamid M, Wen C, Singh N, Okoh P, Xu X, Boakye P, James CE, Waterman AD, Edwards B, Mucsi I.  Racialized and Immigrant Status and the Pursuit of Living Donor Kidney Transplant – a Canadian cohort study.  KI Reports. 2024 Jan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.01.044
  6. Lorenz EC, Bentali AJ, Smith BH, Park WD, Dhala AF, Waterman AD, Kennedy CC, Hickson LJ, Rule AD, Cheville AL, LeBrasseur NK, Stegall MD. Increased Pretransplant Inflammatory Biomarkers Predict Death With Function After Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation. June 24, 2024. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005103
  7. Waterman AD, Davis LA, Al Awadhi S. Unraveling Barriers in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation for South Asian Canadian Populations. Am J Kidney Dis. 2024 Apr 11:S0272-6386(24)00628-0.
  8. Kaplow K, Ruck JM, Levan ML, Thomas AG, Stewart D, Massie AB, Sung HC, Pisano SF, Sidoti C, Segev DL, Sinacore J, Waterman AD. National Attitudes Towards Living Kidney Donation in the United States: Results of a Public Opinion Survey.  Kidney Medicine. 2024 Mar ;6(3):100788. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100788.
  9. Meinders AM, Hobeika MJ, Currie I. Normothermic Regional Perfusion in Donation After Circulatory Death in Liver Transplantation: A Narrative Review. Current Surgery Reports. 2024 Feb 3. doi: 10.1007/s40137-024-00383-2.
  10. Llanos M, Kwon A, Herlitz L, Shafi T, Cohen S, Gebreselassie SK, Sawaf H, Bobart SA. The Clinical and Pathological Characteristics of Patients with Oxalate Nephropathy. Kidney360. 2024 Jan 1;5(1):65-72.
  11. Wulczyn KE, Shafi T, Anderson A, Rincon-Choles H, Clish CB, Denburg M, Feldman HI, He J, Hsu CY, Kelly T, Kimmel PL, Mehta R, Nelson RG, Ramachandran V, Ricardo A, Shah VO, Srivastava A, Xie D, Rhee EP, Kalim S, CRIC Study Investigators. Metabolites Associated With Uremic Symptoms in Patients With CKD: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2024 Jan. 22:S0272-6386(24)00044-1. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2023.11.013.
  12. Shafi T. Refining GFR estimation: a quest for the unobservable truth? Kidney Int. 2024 Mar;105(3):435-437.
  13. Lentine KL, Cooper M, Nagral S, Van Assche K, Delmonico FL, Waterman AD. Expanding Opportunities for Living Donation: Recommendations from the 2023 Santander Summit to Ensure Donor Protections, Informed Decision-making and Equitable Access. Transplantation. 2024 Oct 22. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005124
  14. Waterman AD. What is the Value to Listening and Amplifying the Voices of Patient and Donors? Editorial Special Issue. Transplant Proceedings. 2024 Jun;34(1-2):6. doi: 10.1177/15269248241241164.
  15. Spiro M, Raptis DA, Lentine KL, Cooper M, Waterman AD. Reinforcing oversight: activity monitoring and registries of post-donation and post-transplant outcomes. Transplantation. 2024 Oct 22. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005110
  16. Meinders, AM, Graviss, EA, Nguyen, DT, Daw, J., Lentine, K., Axelrod, DA, Peipert, JD, Weng, FL, Gaber, AO, Waterman, AD. Determining Predictors of Actual Living Kidney Donation Based on Potential Donor Characteristics. Clinical Transplantation. 2024 Sep;38(9):e15439. doi: 10.1111/ctr.15439.
  17. Al Awadhi S, Myint L, Guallar E, Clish CB, Wulczyn KE, Kalim S, Thadani R, Segev DL, McAdams DeMarco M, Moe SM, Moorthi RN, Hostetter TH, Himmelfarb J, Meyer TW, Powe NR, Tonelli M, Rhee EP, Shafi T.  A Metabolomics Approach to Identify Metabolites Associated with Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients. KIReports. Volume 9, Issue 9 p2718-2726 September 2024. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.06.039
  18. Kwon IG, Sawaf H, Portalatin G, Shettigar S, Herlitz LC, Shafi T, Liang H, Kabuka A, Cohen S, Gebreselassie SK, Bobart SA. Kidney Biopsy Findings Among Patients With Diabetes in the Cleveland Clinic Kidney Biopsy Epidemiology Project. Kidney Medicine. Volume 6, Issue 10 August 2024. org/10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100889
  19. Gardiner D, McGee A, Al Obaidli AAK, Cooper M, Lentine KL, Miñambres E, Nagral S, Opdam H, Procaccio F, Shemie S, Spiro M, Torres M, Thomson D, Waterman AD, Dominguez-Gil B, Delmonico F. Developing and expanding deceased organ donation to its maximum therapeutic potential: an actionable global challenge from the Santander Summit. Transplantation. 2024 Oct 22. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005234
  20. Rastogi A, Hersh-Rifkin M, Gritsch HA, Veale JL, Mcguire S, Waterman AD. Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Handbook of Kidney Transplantation. In Press. August 2024.
  21. Khairallah P, Lorenz EC, Waterman AD, Aggarwal N, Pai A, Winkelmayer WC, Niu J. Thirty-year Trends in Allograft Failure Among First-Time Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States. AJKD. Nov 2024 doi.org/10.1053/j.ajkd.2024.09.005.
  22. Anand PM, Woodside KJ, Singh N, Alhamad T, Bloom RD, Gupta G, Singer G, Doshi M, Dadhania DM, Tanriover B, Parsons RF, Wagner C, Xiao H, Lentine KL, Graduating Kidney Transplant Patients Controversies Workgroup. Transition of Care of Stable Kidney Transplant Patients to Referring Nephrologists: A Survey of U.S. Transplant Program Staff. In Press. Clinical Transplantation. Sept 2024.
  23. Tolani R, Sathiyaraj S, Lyu D, Truong L, Thuston T, El-Zaatari Z, Khan AR, Edwards A, Bobart SA. Double Trouble in the Basement! A Case of PLA2R-associated Membranous Nephropathy with Atypical Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease. Krager Glomerular Dis 1–doi.org/10.1159/000542859. Nov 2024.
  24. Nielsen J, Chen C, Davis LA, Waterman AD, Gentili M. Classification of Living Kidney Donation Experiences on Reddit: Understanding the Sensitivity of ChatGPT to Prompt Engineering. In press, Internet Interventions. Nov 2024
  25. Garg N, Thiessen C, Reese PP, Cooper M, Leishman R, Friedewald J, Sharfuddin AA, Nishio Lucar AG, Dadhania DM, Kumar V, Waterman AD, Mandelbrot DA. Temporal trends in kidney paired donation in the United States: 2006–2021 UNOS/OPTN database analysis. Am J Transplant. Jan 2024;24(1):46–56. doi:10.1016/j.ajt.2023.09.006
  26. Hurt CH, Greene GJ, Friedewald J, Waterman AD, Lander D, Tang X, Fowler K, Kaiser K, Cella D, Peipert JD. Development of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy Calcineurin Inhibitor – Neurotoxicity (FACIT-CNI-NTX) Patient Reported Outcome Measure. AJKD. 2025 Jan 23:S0272-6386(25)00041-1. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2024.11.012.
  27. Abdelnour L, Hersh-Rifkin M, Gritsch HA, Veale JL, McGuire S, Waterman AD. Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Handbook of Kidney Transplantation. In Press. June 2025.
  28. Hehenberger K, Farhat S, Waterman AD. A Journey from Patient and Physician to Entrepreneur and Advocate in Transplantation. Prog Transplant. 2025 Mar;35(1):50. doi: 10.1177/15269248241304804. Epub 2024 Dec 12. PMID: 39668584.
  29. Nielsen J, Chen X, Davis L, Waterman AD, Gentili M. Investigating the Classification of Living Kidney Donation Experiences on Reddit and Understanding the Sensitivity of ChatGPT to Prompt Engineering: Content Analysis. JMIR AI 2025;4:e57319. doi: 10.2196/57319. https://ai.jmir.org/2025/1/e57319
  30. Bobart, S. A., Hsu, E., Potter, T., Truong, L., Waterman, AD., Jones, S., Shafi, T. (2025). Development of a natural language processing model for extracting kidney biopsy pathology diagnoses. Kidney Medicine, 101047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xkme.2025.101047
  31. Yohanna S, Wilson M, Naylor KL, Garg AX, Sontrop JM, Mucsi I, Belenko D, Dixon SN, Blake PG, Cooper R, Elliott L, Heale E, Macanovic S, Patzer R, Waterman AD, Treleaven D, Coghlan C, Reich M, McKenzie S, Presseau J, EnAKT LKD Investigators. Process Evaluation Alongside a Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Multicomponent Intervention Designed to Improve Patient Access to Kidney Transplantation. Can J Kidney Health Dis. 2025 Mar 17; 12:20543581251323959. doi: 10.1177/20543581251323959. PMID: 40104388; PMCID: PMC11915279.
  32. Juric, I., Raynaud, M., Skoric, L., Al Awadhi, S., Truchot, A., Sablik, M., Ma, X., Lv, K., Zhang, H., Louis, K., Basic-Jukic, N., Tissier, R., Hauet, T., Cozzi, E., Oniscu, G. C., Mangiola, M., Tector, J. A., Riella, L. V., Locke, J. E., Samuel, D., Meier, R. P. H., Mohiuddin, M. M., Montgomery, R. A., Loupy, A. (2025). Mapping the evolution of solid organ xenotransplantation research: A systematic review. Xenotransplantation, 32(3), e70058. https://doi.org/10.1111/xen.70058