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Dr. Waterman is a national transplant innovator and the Division Chief for Patient Engagement and Diversity, representing both J.C. Walter Transplant Center at Houston Methodist Hospital and the Center for Outcomes Research at the Houston Methodist Research Institute.
As a Health Services Researcher and Social Psychologist, she has conducted research to understand factors affecting access to kidney transplantation, living donation, and paired donation. Her work also examines the effectiveness of educational and multilevel interventions to improve transplantation outcomes, increase living donation rates, and reduce racial disparities in access to transplantation. She has been the Principal Investigator on 9 grants from the NIH and HRSA, has published more than 100 journal articles and has designed and tested the efficacy of a suite of innovative educational resources including mobile decision aid applications, a digital storytelling application, and texting interventions about living donation. These award-winning resources have been translated into multiple languages and delivered to patients in thousands of clinical settings in the United States, Canada and online. Her research has been supported by almost $30 million in grants.
She is also a national policy leader, having served on multiple national committees for the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), The Transplantation Society (TSS), and the American Society of Transplantation (AST). She co-chaired national workgroups for the AST’s Consensus Conference on Best Practices in Live Kidney Donation, which established a set of recommendations for optimal transplant education, and for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) End-Stage Renal Disease Access to Kidney Transplantation to develop quality metrics for transplantation within dialysis centers. She served as a keynote speaker at the White House’s Organ Donation Summit, after which she led the design and development of a national, web-based clearinghouse of educational resources about kidney transplant and living donation which launched online by UNOS. Finally, she continues to serve as an AST Fellow and received the 2019 AST Clinician of Distinction Award for national influence in transplantation by a non-physician.
Research Area Keywords
- Transplantation
- Outcomes, Quality & Health Care Performance
- Systems Medicine & Bioinformatics
Free-text keywords
- Living Donation
- Health Communication
- Patient Education Design
- Patient Engagement
- Disparities
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Ensuring Informed Decision-Making for Paired Kidney Donation: A National Kidney Registry Education Collaborative
9/1/20 → 9/30/22
Project: Federal Funding Agencies
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A Transplant Recipients International Organization Initiative to Improve Education About Posttransplant Cancer Risk, Prevention, and Treatment
Gleason, J., Ho, E., Pines, R., Gregorowicz, P., Wood, E. H. & Waterman, A. D., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Progress in Transplantation.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Motivations and outcomes of compatible living donor–recipient pairs in paired exchange
Chipman, V., Cooper, M., Thomas, A. G., Ronin, M., Lee, B., Flechner, S., Leeser, D., Segev, D. L., Mandelbrot, D. A., Lunow-Luke, T., Syed, S., Hil, G., Freise, C. E., Waterman, A. D. & Roll, G. R., Jan 2022, In: American Journal of Transplantation. 22, 1, p. 266-273 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Protocol for a Process Evaluation of the Quality Improvement Intervention to Enhance Access to Kidney Transplantation and Living Kidney Donation (EnAKT LKD) Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial
Yohanna, S., Wilson, M., Naylor, K. L., Garg, A. X., Sontrop, J. M., Belenko, D., Elliott, L., McKenzie, S., Macanovic, S., Mucsi, I., Patzer, R., Voronin, I., Lui, I., Blake, P. G., Waterman, A. D., Treleaven, D. & Presseau, J., Mar 2022, In: Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 9Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Providers and Families Weigh in on Delays to Pediatric Kidney Transplant Wait-List Activation
Farkas-Skiles, C. M., Feinsinger, A., Pines, R. & Waterman, A. D., Mar 2022, In: Progress in Transplantation. 32, 1, p. 41-48 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Risk aversion in the use of complex kidneys in paired exchange programs: Opportunities for even more transplants?
Roll, G. R., Cooper, M., Verbesey, J., Veale, J. L., Ronin, M., Irish, W., Waterman, A. D., Flechner, S. M. & Leeser, D. B., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: American Journal of Transplantation.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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