Invited Faculty -Alan B Leichtman

Alan Leichtman is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology of the University of Michigan, and served as the Primary Physician for the University of Michigan’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Programs from 1989 through 2011, and as the Medical Director of the University of Michigan’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Programs from 1989 through 2006.  He directs the University’s Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) system and is co-director of its Transplant Nephrology Fellowship program.  He is President-Elect of Gift of Life Michigan, the State of Michigan’s Organ Procurement Organization, and Chair of its Governance Committee. 

Nationally, he is a Member of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medical Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC), the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Department of Transplantation’s Quality Improvement Taskforce, the Board of Trustees of the American Kidney Fund, the American Society of Transplantation’s Public Policy Committee, the National Kidney Foundation’s End-The-Wait Task Force, the American Society of Nephrology’s Transplant Advisory Committee, the Board of Trustees of Explore Transplant, and the Alliance for Paired Donation’s Scientific Operations Committee.  He previously served as a Transplant Investigator for the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) and is currently the Associate Director of the data coordinating centre for the RELIVE Study, a National Institute of Health (NIH) sponsored, multi-centre epidemiological investigation of living lung and living kidney donor outcomes.  He also has NIH support to model Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) matching algorithms, is a co-investigator on an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded project to develop a national KPD Standard Acquisition Charge, has Veteran’s Administration support to contribute to the development of a VA chronic kidney disease registry, and participates in a Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services contract to assess the performance of transplant programs and organ procurement organizations.