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The Northwestern Medicine African American Transplant Access Program with Dinee Simpson, MD

EPISODE · Oct 25, 2021 · 24 MIN

The Northwestern Medicine African American Transplant Access Program with Dinee Simpson, MD

from Breakthroughs · host Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

People who are Black make up the largest group of minorities in need of an organ transplant. In 2019, Northwestern Medicine launched the African American Transplant Access Program to help address this problem. Founding director of the program Dinee Simpson, MD, talks about the barriers to organ transplant for Black patients and how she is working to bring down those barriers in Chicago with innovative outreach, community-engaged research and more. 

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