Transition Announced Transition Announced Tuesday, May 12, 2020 Dr. Robert M. Merion, MD, FACS has announced that he will step down as President and Chief Executive Officer of Arbor Research Collaborative for Health by August 2021. The Arbor Research Board of Directors has appointed a Search Committee to lead the recruitment efforts for a successor. The position opportunity can be found on the Arbor Research careers page. Following the transition, Dr. Merion will remain on staff as a member of the scientific team. Read more
2020 ASTS Vanguard Award 2020 ASTS Vanguard Award Thursday, December 5, 2019 Our collaborator on the National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) project, Amit Mathur, MD, transplant surgeon at the Mayo Clinic of Arizona, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2020 Vanguard Award from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), in recognition of his recent publication in Clinical Transplantation, “Return on investment for financial assistance for living kidney donors in the United States.” This work finds that financial support for organ donors’ out-of-pocket expenses produces dramatic federal savings through incremental living donor kidney transplants, by transitioning patients off dialysis. Read more
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Measure and Instrument Development and Support (MIDS) Contracting Friday, November 16, 2018 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) selected Arbor Research Collaborative for Health as one of 31 organizations across the United States to carry out up to $1.6 billion in contract work related to health care quality measurement over the next decade. CMS designed this contracting vehicle to fund work that promotes improvements in both the quality of care and outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries and in the overall efficiency of the Medicare program. Read more
The DOPPS Approach to Improving Patient Care The DOPPS Approach to Improving Patient Care Monday, December 8, 2014 Dr. Friedrich Port is the 2014 recipient of the National Kidney Foundation’s David M. Hume Memorial Award. To mark this milestone in his career, Dr. Port reflected on the approach of the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS), which he helped to design, launch, and maintain since 1996. Dr. Port’s paper “Practice-Based Versus Patient-Level Outcomes Research in Hemodialysis: The DOPPS (Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study) Experience” was published in the American Journal of Kidney Disease. Read more
Secular Trends in the Cost of Immunosuppressants after Solid Organ Transplantation in the United States Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Uptake of Generic vs Brand Name Immunosuppressants Among US Organ Transplant Recipients Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Successful use & placement of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) vascular accesses: US AVF placement trend of concern Monday, April 23, 2018