The Economic Value of Volunteers Directing and Managing the US Organ Donation and Transplantation System

Macey L Levan^{1

2}, Tessa L Flower¹, Allan B Massie^{1

2}, Dianne LaPointe Rudow³, Carolyn N Sidoti¹, Richard N Formica Jr⁴, Lloyd E Ratner⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY.
² Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY.
³ Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Macey L Levan et al. Transplantation. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 1;109(3):e184-e185.

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005293. Epub 2025 Jan 27.

Macey L Levan^{1

2}, Tessa L Flower¹, Allan B Massie^{1

2}, Dianne LaPointe Rudow³, Carolyn N Sidoti¹, Richard N Formica Jr⁴, Lloyd E Ratner⁵

¹ Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY.
² Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY.
³ Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY.

No abstract available

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