Dorry Segev

Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, FACS, is associate vice chair for research, director of the Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation, and associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He has made significant contributions to the field of transplantation including development of a mathematical model to facilitate nationwide Kidney Paired Donation program both in the US and Canada.

Both Segev and his wife, Sommer Gentry, have been featured in the Baltimore Sun, Science (magazine), Time Magazine, and The New York Times.

HOPE Act and H.I.V. Positive Transplantation in the U.S.

On November 21, 2013, President Barack Obama signed into law the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act (or HOPE Act), a bipartisan legislation that updated regulations from 1988 that had prevented research into HIV positive organs for transplant. Dr. Segev had been a front runner to push the legislation through by conducting a study to try to estimate how many potential HIV-positive deceased donors there would be. Findings found that available donors would about 500 per year, which would allow for over 1,000 organs available for transplant.

Before the HOPE Act was passed, there had been no previous American research on whether or not the transplants would be effective and any organ whose donor was diagnosed with HIV would be immediately thrown out.

With the HOPE Act, HIV positive patients on the current kidney and liver waiting lists can elect to also be open to any organs whose donors were diagnosed to be HIV positive. This would not remove the patients from accepting non-HIV positive organs. However, it does have the potential to significantly shorten a patient's wait time on the kidney and liver deceased donor wait list.

The first HIV-to-HIV transplants that were performed in the United States happened on Wednesday, March 30, 2016.

In addition to his scientific career, Segev is also a multi-award winner and international teacher in swing dance and Lindy Hop with Gentry. In 2005, Segev and Gentry started Charm City Swing, a non-profit organization in Baltimore, MD that is dedicated to introducing the art of swing dance to non-dancers. Charm City Swing found a permanent home at the Mobtown Ballroom in 2012.

• 2006 - Vanguard Prize, American Society of Transplant Surgeons
• 2007 - Dennis W Jahnigen Scholars Award, American Geriatrics Society
• 2008 - Clinical Scientist Development Award, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
• 2009 - Julius Jacobson Promising Investigator Award, American College of Surgeons
• 2009 - John Merrill Award in Transplantation, American Society of Nephrology
• 2012 - ASTS Mid-Level Faculty Grant
• 2012 - Inducted, American Society for Clinical Investigation

• Makary, Martin A.,Dorry L. Segev, , Peter J. Pronovost, Dora Syin, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Purvi Patel, a, Ryan Takenaga, , Lara Devgan , Christine G. Holzmueller, Jing Tian, Linda P. Fried,. "Frailty as a predictor of surgical outcomes in older patients." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 210.6 (2010): 901-908. Cited by 568 articles, according to Google Scholar
• Segev, DL, Gentry SE, Warren DS, Reeb B, Montgomery RA. Kidney Paired Donation and optimizing the use of live donor organs. JAMA. 2005 Apr 20; 293 (15) 1883-90. Cited by 295 articles,
• Dorry L. Segev, MD, PhD; Abimereki D. Muzaale,  ; Brian S. Caffo,; Shruti H. Mehta, Andrew L. Singer, Sarah E. Taranto; Maureen A. McBride, Robert A. Montgomery. "Perioperative Mortality and Long-term Survival Following Live Kidney Donation" JAMA 2101 March 10; 303 (10) 959-966 Cited by 365 articles, r
• Robert A. Montgomery, Bonnie E. Lonze, Karen E. King, Edward S. Kraus, D., Lauren M. Kucirka, Jayme E. Locke, Daniel S. Warren, Christopher E. Simpkins, Nabil N. Dagher, Andrew L. Singer, Andrea A. Zachary, , and Dorry L. Segev, "Desensitization in HLA-incompatible kidney recipients and survival." New England Journal of Medicine 365.4 (2011): 318-326. Cited by 309 articles,