Our Team

Leaders and Staff

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Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH

Lifetime Director Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition
President & CEO, Regenstrief Institute
Research Scientist, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute
Leonard Betley Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
Professor, IU Fairbanks School of Public Health

Stephen Pastan, MD

Chair, Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition
Medical Director, Emory Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Center Nephrologist, Emory Transplant Center
Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

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Jessica Harding, PhD

Data Chair, Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Associate Director, Emory Health Services Research Center

Chair of Community Engagement, Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Emory Health Services Research Center, Departments of Medicine and Surgery


Emma Blythe, MPH

Community Liaison, Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition, Epidemiologist, Emory University

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Jade Buford, MPH

Epidemiologist, Regenstrief Institute

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Mengyu Di, MSPH

Data Scientist
Regenstrief Institute

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Adam Wilk, PhD

Associate Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Scientist, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute

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Arrey-Takor Ayuk-Arrey, MPH 

Epidemiologist
Regenstrief Institute

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Kelsey Drewry, PhD, MA

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Scientist, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute

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Catherine Kelty, PhD, MS

Postdoctoral Fellow
Indiana University

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