Research
Since its inception, the UF Division of Transplantation has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, audiovisual presentations and abstracts. We have made over 130 presentations at regional, national and international meetings. Dr. Peters has also been an invited lecturer or visiting professor throughout America addressing undergraduate, graduate, and professional audiences.
Published studies have included center results reporting, regional multi-center reports and prospective multi-center studies. Major areas of interest include transplant outcomes, expanding the indications for transplantation to older patients, novel living donor circumstances and various aspects of cadaveric donations and living organ donation. Clinical trails of pharmacologic agents have been performed, peer-reviewed and published. A principal interest has been shortening the hospital stay for both living donors and kidney transplant recipients. In fact, several published reports have highlighted the short length of stay for each. Importantly, the center has been involved in financial and legislative issues as they impact transplant patients and caregivers. The anterior retroperitoneal living donor nephrectomy operation developed and reported from Jacksonville has become the standard for open donor nephrectomy. And, the confirmation that living kidney donation is the standard of care in America has grown, at least in part, from work in this division.
Consensus conference participation and reporting have included the non-directed live kidney donor, national assessment of the kidney transplant waiting list and participation in the national conference on the living kidney donor. Major grants and contracts over the course of the research experience have exceeded 1.3 million dollars.
The center continues to develop and publish pieces for patient education. Collaborating with national volunteer health agencies, recent publications have included topics such as financial disincentives in living kidney donation, analysis of expanded donors, unrelated living kidney donation and transplantation, patient activities following transplantation, kidney transplant matching, transplanting the older patient and anti-rejection medication.