AJT Highlights
Episodes
AJT December 2025 Editors’ Picks
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AJT December 2025 Editors’ Picks Description: Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Hannah Bahakel to discuss the key articles of the Dece...
AJT November 2025 Editors’ Picks
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Christie Rampersad to discuss the key articles of the November issue of the American Jour...
AJT October 2025 Editors’ Picks
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AJT October 2025 Editors’ Picks Description: Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Dr. Christina Haugen to discuss the key articles of the...
AJT September 2025 Editors’ Picks
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo discuss the key articles of the September issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. [03:30] Blunted cardiac re...
Kidney transplantation for undocumented immigrants in the United States: challenges and Ethical considerations
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Specialty Podcast, Dr. Dami Ko is joined by Dr. Katherine Rizzolo, and Dr. Leonela Villegas to discuss kidney transplantation for undocumented...
AJT August 2025 Editors’ Picks
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Alberto are joined by new Editorial Fellow Dr. Sofia Bin to discuss the key articles of the August issue of the American Journal of Tran...
AJT July 2025 Editors’ Picks
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Alberto discuss the key articles of the July issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. [03:48] Liver transplantation for hepatit...
AJT June 2025 Editors’ Picks
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by new co-host Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, MD, PhD to discuss the key articles of the June issue of the American Journal of Transplantat...
Overcoming Barriers: Revitalizing Pancreas Transplantation in the U.S.
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this specialty podcast, Dr. Alissar El Chediak is joined by Dr. Jon Odorico and Dr. Ron Parsons to discuss the current state of pancreas transplant...
Bird Flu and Transplant Patients: Emerging Risks and Clinical Insights
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Specialty Podcast, Dr. Alejandra Mendoza is joined by Dr. Cameron Wolfe, infectious diseases specialist at Duke University, to discuss the gro...
AJT May 2025 Editors’ Picks
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by Timucin Taner, MD, PhD and Dami Ko, PhD to discuss the key articles of the May issue of the American Journal of Transplantation....
AJT April 2025 Editors’ Picks
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by Rene Bermea, MD and Gonzalo Sapisochin, MD, PhD to discuss the key articles of the April issue of the American Journal of Transp...
AJT March 2025 Editors' Picks
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by Ross Doyle, PhD to discuss the key articles of the March issue of American Journal of Transplantation. Dr. Ross Doyle is a consu...
AJT February 2025 Editors' Picks
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Dr. Adam Stewart to discuss the key articles of the February issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. [00...
AJT January 2025 Editors’ Picks
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Sergio Acuna, MD to discuss the key articles of the January issue of American Journal of Transplantation. Dr. Sergio ...
AJT December 2024 Editors’ Picks
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Abraham Matar, MD to discuss the key articles of the December issue of American Journal of Transplantation. Dr. Abrah...
AJT November 2024 Editors’ Picks
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Sharon Weeks Groh, MD to discuss the key articles of the November issue of American Journal of Transpl...
AJT October 2024 Editors’ Picks
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Frances Lee, MD to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journal of Transplantation. [00:02:31...
AJT September 2024 Editors’ Picks
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Alissar El Chediak, MD to discuss the key articles of the September issue of the American Journal of Transplantation....
AJT August 2024 Editors' Picks
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Maria Alejandra Mendoza, MD to discuss the key articles of the August issue of American Journal of Tra...
AJT July 2024 Editors' Picks
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Mack Morris, MD to discuss the key articles of the July issue of American Journal of Transplantation. [03:33] Biliary...
Analytical Approaches to Policy Evaluation in Transplantation
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this specialty podcast, AJT Fellow and host David Cron is joined by Jesse Schold and Joel Adler to provide an overview policy evaluation in transpl...
AJT June 2024 Editors' Picks
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Associate Editor Orla Morrissey, MD (Monash University) and AJT Editorial Fellow Elena-Bianca Barbir, MD (Mayo Clinic-Roches...
The impact of the 2018 change in heart allocation and what the heart community can learn from experiences with continuous distribution of lung
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this AJT specialty podcast, Luise Holzhauser, hosts Shelley Hall and Marie Budev to discuss the impact of the 2018 change in heart allocation and w...
AJT May 2024 Editors' Picks
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Executive Guest Editor Nadim Mahmud, MD, MPH (University of Pennsylvania) and AJT Editorial Fellow Tina Marinelli, MBBS, MPH...
AJT April 2024 Editors' Picks
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Allan Kirk, MD, PhD, (Duke University) and AJT Editorial Fellow Laura Binari, MD (Vanderbilt Univer...
AJT March 2024 Editors' Picks
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Alexandre Loupy, MD, PhD (Necker Hospital) and AJT Editorial Fellow Thiago J Borges, PhD (Massachuset...
AJT February 2024 Editors' Picks
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member John Greenland, MD, PhD (University of California, San Francisco) and AJT Editorial Fellow David Cron...
The impact and implications of the kidney allocation system (KAS 250) over kidney allocation in the United States
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast discusses the impact and implications the kidney allocation system (KAS 250) has had over kidney allocation in the United States, focusing...
AJT January 2024 Editors’ Picks
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Michael Mengel, MD (University of Alberta) and AJT Editorial Fellow Kazem Fallahzadeh, MD (Emory Univ...
AJT Decmber 2023 Editors’ Picks
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Emily Blumberg, MD (University of Pennsylvania) and AJT Editorial Fellow Dempsey Hughes, MD (Northwes...
Kidney Utilization and Organ Procurement Organization Performance
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this specialty podcast, Arielle Cimeno, hosts Raymond Lynch and Amit Mathur to discuss recent trends and new initiatives to assess kidney utilizati...
AJT November 2023 Editors’ Picks
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by Ramsey Hachem, MD (Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis) and AJT Editorial Fellow Helen Tsai, MD (Montefiore ...
AJT October 2023 Editors’ Picks
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Salil Kumar, MD (incoming Assistant Professor at MD Anderson Medical Center) [2:24] Importance of social vu...
AJT September 2023 Editors’ Picks
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Kenneth Newell, MD, PhD (Emory University) and AJT Editorial Fellow Kyle Jackson, MD, PhD (Emory Univ...
Ethical Issues Related to Informed Consent and Informed Authorization for Xenotransplantation
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this specialty podcast, Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison) hosts Robert Montgomery, MD, PhD, (NYU Langone) and Muhammad Moh...
AJT August 2023 Editors’ Picks
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Sanjay Kulkarni, MD, (Yale School of Medicine) and AJT Editorial Fellow Luise Holzhauser, MD (Univers...
International efforts to eliminate gender disparities in allocation of liver transplants: MELD 3.0 & Gender-Equity Model for Liver Allocation (GEMA)
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this AJT specialty podcast, Aly Strauss, hosts Allison Kwong and Manuel Rodriguez-Peralvarez to discuss MELD 3.0, Gender-Equity Model for Liver A...
AJT July 2023 Editors’ Picks
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Seth Karp, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) and AJT Editorial Fellow Thiago Borges, PhD (Ma...
AJT June 2023 Editors’ Picks
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh discuss the key articles of the June issue of American Journal of Transplantation. [1:30] The evolving use of biomarkers in heart t...
AJT May 2023 Editors’ Picks
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Scott Krummey, MD, PhD, to discuss the key articles of the May issue of American Journal of Trans...
AJT April 2023 Editors’ Picks
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Daniel Galvez Lima, MD, to discuss the key articles of the April issue of American Journal of Tra...
AJT March 2023 Editors’ Picks
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Aly Strauss, MD, to discuss the key articles of the March issue of American Journal of Transplantation. ...
Opportunities and Challenges in Transplant Registry Research
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this specialty podcast, Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH (Emory University) hosts Jon Snyder, PhD, MS (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients) t...
AJT February 2023 Editors’ Picks
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Zachary Yetmar, MD, to discuss the key articles of the February issue of American Journal of Tra...
AJT January 2023 Editors’ Picks
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow James Hendele, MD, to discuss the key articles of the January issue of American Journal of Trans...
AJT December 2022 Editors’ Picks
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Quan Yao Ho, MBBS, MRCP (UK), MMed (S’pore), to discuss the key articles of the December is...
AJT November 2022 Editors’ Picks
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Marlene Cano, MD, PhD to discuss the key articles of the November issue of American Journal of T...
AJT October 2022 Editors’ Picks
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Arielle Cimeno, MD, to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journal of Tran...
AJT September 2022 Editors’ Picks
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Ersilia M. DeFilippis, MD, to discuss the key articles of the September issue of American Journa...
AJT August 2022 Editors’ Picks
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Hirsh D. Trivedi, MD, MSc, to discuss the key articles of the August issue of American Journal o...
AJT July 2022 Editors’ Picks
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Prince Singh, MBBS, FASN, FACP to discuss the key articles of the July issue of American Journal...
AJT June 2022 Editor’s Picks
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh discuss the key articles of the June issue of American Journal of Transplantation.
AJT May 2022 Editor’s Picks
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Natalia Castillo Almeida, MD (University of Nebraska) and Beau Kelly, MD, MBA, FACS, FAST (DCI Donor Services and AST...
AJT April 2022 Editors’ Picks
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Dustin Carpenter, MD, MPH (Weill Cornell Medical Center) to discuss the key articles of the April issue of American J...
Use of Organs from SARS-CoV-2-Positive Donors: Weighing the Risks versus Benefits
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are now more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet many questions remain about how to approach solid organ transplant donors with COVI...
AJT March 2022 Editors’ Picks
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz Mannon is joined by Carol Kao, MD (Washington University in St. Louis) to discuss the key articles of the March issue of American Journal of ...
AJT February 2022 Editors’ Picks
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Satish Nadig, MD, PhD (Northwestern) to discuss the key articles of the February issue of American Journal of Transpl...
AJT January 2022 Editors’ Picks
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Rebecca Craig-Schapiro, MD, PhD (Weill Cornell Medical Center) and Juan Carlos Caicedo, MD (Northwestern) to discuss ...
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Pros, Cons, and a Patient‘s Perspective
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Requirements for COVID-19 vaccination for transplant candidates are currently being widely considered by transplant programs. While many programs prom...
AJT December 2021 Editors’ Picks
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Raphael Meier, MD, PhD, (University of Maryland) to discuss the key articles of the December issue of American Journa...
AJT November 2021 Editors’ Picks
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Shaheed Merani, MD, PhD (University of Nebraska) and Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH (Emory University) to discuss the ...
AJT October 2021 Editors’ Picks
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD (University of Wisconsin) to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journ...
AJT September 2021 Editors’ Picks
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josh is joined by Abdul Oseini (Johns Hopkins) and Paolo Cravedi (Mount Sinai) to discuss the key articles of the September issue of American Journal ...
AJT August 2021 Editors’ Picks
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Andriana Nikolova, MD, PhD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) to discuss the key articles of the August issue of American ...
AJT July 2021 Editors’ Picks
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Mike Fruscione, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital) to discuss the key articles of the July issue of American Journal...
AJT June 2021 Editors’ Picks
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Babak Orandi, MD (UAB) to discuss the key articles of the June issue of American Journal of Transplantation.
AJT May 2021 Editors’ Picks
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Yanik Bababekov, MD, MPH (University of Colorado) to discuss the key articles of the May issue of American Journal of...
AJT April 2021 Editors’ Picks
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are rejoined by Ilkka Helanterä, MD, PhD (Helsinki University Hospital) to discuss the key articles of the April issue of American...
AJT March 2021 Editors’ Picks
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Lisa McElroy, MD, (Duke University) to discuss the key articles of the March issue of American Journal of Transplanta...
AJT February 2021 Editors’ Picks
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are rejoined by Melissa Swee, MD, MME (University of Iowa) to discuss the key articles of the February issue of American Journal of...
AJT January 2021 Editors’ Picks
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Yanik Bababekov, MD, MPH (University of Colorado) to discuss the key articles of the January issue of American Journa...
AJT December 2020 Editors’ Picks
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Oscar Serrano, MD (Hartford Healthcare) to discuss the key articles of the December issue of American Journal of Tran...
AJT November 2020 Editors’ Picks
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Ilkka Helanterä, MD, PhD (Helsinki University Hospital) to discuss the key articles of the November issue of America...
AJT October 2020 Editors’ Picks
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Melissa Swee, MD, MME (University of Iowa) to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journal of Tr...
AJT September 2020 Editors' Picks
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Babak Orandi, MD, (UAB) to discuss the key articles of the September issue of American Journal of Transplantation.
AJT August 2020 Editors’ Picks
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Deputy Editor Mandy Ford (Emory University) and AJT Fellow Oscar Serrano (Hartford Hospital) to discuss the key a...
AJT July 2020 Editors’ Picks
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Lisa McElroy, MD, (Duke University) to discuss the key articles of the July issue of American Journal of Transplantat...
COVID-19 and Organ Transplantation: Part 2
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roz Mannon is rejoined by Dr. Lara Danziger-Isakov to discuss the latest articles about COVID-19 and organ transplantation from AJT, JAMA, and NE...
AJT June 2020 Editors’ Picks
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH, (University of California, San Francisco) to discuss the key articles of the June issue of ...
AJT May 2020 Editors' Picks
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Benjamin Hippen, MD, (Metrolina Nephrology Associates) to discuss the key articles of the May issue of American Journ...
COVID-19 and Organ Transplantation: Part 1
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Dr. Lara Danziger-Isakov for this special edition of AJT Highlights discussing current articles about COVID-19 and or...
AJT April 2020 Editors' Picks
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT's Editor Emeritus, Dr. Philip Halloran to discuss this month's key papers.
AJT March 2020 Editor’s Picks
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by Jaime Todd, MD, of Duke University and by Lisa VanWagner, MD, MSc, of Northwestern.
AJT February 2020 Editor's Picks
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by Dr. Angela Maldonado, one of the contributors to the C4 article featured in this episode.
AJT January 2020 Editors' Picks
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by fellow AJT editorial board member, Dr. Robert Fairchild, to discuss some of the key papers in the Jan...
AJT December 2019 Editors' Picks
01 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by cardiac transplantation expert Jon Kobashigawa to discuss the editors' picks in the December issue of...
AJT November 2019 Editors' Picks
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon discuss key papers from the November issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.
AJT October 2019 Editors' Picks
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by Jen Allocco (Immunology graduate student at the University of Chicago) and Patrick Ahea...
AJT September 2019 Editors' Picks
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon discuss key articles from the September issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.
AJT August 2019 Editors' Picks
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon discuss key articles from the August issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.
AJT July 2019 Editors' Picks
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon discuss key papers from the July issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.
AJT June 2019 Editors' Picks
02 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Levitsky and John Friedewald discuss key papers from the June issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.
AJT May 2019 Editors' Picks
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Josh Levitsky discusses editors' picks from the May issue: Dual blockade of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway inhibits posttransplant Ep...
Trailer
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas