An article on kidney donation from live donors quoted an editorial co-authored by Didier Mandelbrot, MD (pictured above), professor (CHS), Nephrology and medical director of of the UW Health Kidney and Pancreas Program and Krista Lentine, MD, PhD (not pictured), professor, Saint Louis University School of Medicine. 

Their editorial accompanied an analysis by University of Alberta researchers that provides possible strategies to increase living donation rates. 

Drs. Mandelbrot and Lentine wrote, "We and others believe that the strategies that have the potential to improve informed consent and access to living kidney donor transplantation include: (a) broader and repeated living donor kidney transplantation education beginning at earlier stages of kidney disease and involving the patient's social network, (b) removal of disincentives to donation, (c) optimized efficiency in the evaluation of donor candidates, and (d) improving the safety and defensibility of donor selection."

Resources: 

• "What's the best strategy to increase living kidney donation?," MedicalXPress, August 17, 2017
• Lentine KL, Mandelbrot D. 2017. Moving from Intuition to Data: Building the Evidence to Support and Increase Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 12(9):1383-1385.