In Medicine: More on Organ Allocation for Transplantation



Dr. Benjamin Hippen

Dr. Benjamin Hippen, renowned transplantation nephrologist at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC and friend of the institute was recently quoted in an article in the Washington Post regarding a new way to allocate kidneys for transplantation:

A few weeks later Ben co-authored an article in the NY Times, The Opinion Pages: How Not to Assign Kidneys

Then in mid-March he had a publication in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine: Risk, Prognosis, and Unintended Consequences in Kidney Allocation. You may view the first part of his article on the New England Journal of Medicine's site, but to read the full content, a subscription is required.

Dr. Hippen spoke at events both on and off campus in 2008 and 2009. The title of one of his talks during his 2009 visit: Organ Sales and Moral Travails: Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in Iran is from another publication in Policy Analysis.

We appreciate and have high regard for his expertise in this ethically complex topic.