October 2020

NEPHROLOGY

THE NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRANSPLANT ACCESS PROGRAM WITH DINEE SIMPSON, MD

Featuring: Dinee C Simpson, MD 

Episode Summary

People who are Black make up the largest group of minorities in need of an organ transplant, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2019, Northwestern Medicine launched the African American Transplant Access Program to help address this problem. Founding director of the program Dinee Simpson, MD, talks about the barriers to organ transplant for Black patients and how she is working to bring down those barriers in Chicago with innovative outreach, community-engaged research and more. ​
Dinee C Simpson, MD, Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Diversity in the Department of Surgery Assistant Professor of Surgery (Organ Transplantation)

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