Roy Dennis Bloom - Faculty Biosketch

Roy Dennis Bloom, MBBCh.

Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Department: Medicine

Contact information

One Founders Pavilion
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pa 19104-6144

Office: (215) 662-4643
Fax: (215) 615-0349

Education:
BSc (Physiology and Biochemistry)
University of Witwatersrand, 1980.
M.B.B.Ch.
University of Witwatersrand, 1983.

Post-Graduate Training
Intern in Medicine and General Surgery, (6 mos. each) , Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa, 1984-1984.
Senior House Officer, Internal Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, 1985-1986.
Senior House Officer, Cardiothoracics , Guy's Hospital, London, UK , 1985-1985.
Senior House Officer, Internal Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK, 1986-1987.
Senior House Officer, Nephrology, St. Phillip's & St. Paul's Hospitals, London, UK, 1987-1987.
Intern & Resident, Internal Medicine , Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phila, PA , 1987-1990.
Fellow in Renal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, MA , 1990-1992.
Fellowship, Renal Electrolyte & Hypertension Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Phila, PA, 1992-1994.

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine - Nephrology Recertification, 2007.

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Selected Publications

Harhay MN, Hill AS, Wang W, Even-Shoshan O, Mussell AS, Bloom RD, Feldman HI, Karlawish JH, Silber JH, Reese PP. : Measures of Global Health Status on Dialysis Signal Early Rehospitalization Risk after Kidney Transplantation. PLoS One 11(6): e0156532, June 2016.

Sawinski D, Kaur N, Ajeti A, Trofe-Clark J, Lim M, Bleicher M, Goral S, Forde KA and Bloom RD. : Successful treatment of Hepatitis C in renal transplant recipients with direct-acting antiviral agents. American Journal of Transplantation 16((5)): 1588-95, May 2016.

Lim MA, Kohl J, Bloom RD: Immunosuppression for Kidney Transplantation: Where are we now and where are we going? Transplantation Reviews (in press) 2016.

Cohen JB, Bloom RD, Reese PP, Porrett PM, Forde KM, Sawinski DL.: National Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation from Deceased Diabetic Donors. Kidney International (in press) 2016.

Sawinski D, Patel N, Appolo B, Bloom RD: Use of HCV+ donors does not affect HCV clearance with directly acting antiviral therapy but shortens the wait time to kidney transplantation. Transplantation (in press) 2016.

Dienemann T, Fujii N, Li Y, Govani S, Kosaraju N, Bloom RD, Feldman HI.: Long-term Patient Survival and Kidney Allograft Survival in Post Transplant Diabetes Mellitus: A single center retrospective study. Transplant International (in press) 2016.

Choudhury RA, Reese PP, Goldberg DS, Bloom RD, Sawinski DL, Abt PL: A Paired Kidney Analysis of Multiorgan Transplantation: Implications for Allograft Survival. Transplantation (in press) 2016.

Miller AM, Lim MA, Palmer M, Levine M, Naji A, Bloom RD, Abt PL: Kidney Transplantation from a Donor with Sickle Cell Disease. American Journal of Transplantation (in press) 2016.

Sawinski D, Bloom RD: Novel Hepatitis C Treatment and the Impact on Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation 99(12): 2458-66, December 2015.

Reese PR, Shults J, Bloom RD, Mussell A, Harhay MN, Abt P, Levine M, Johansen KL, Karlawish JT, Feldman HI: Functional status, time to transplant, and survival benefit of kidney transplantation among wait-listed candidates. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 66(5): 837-45, November 2015.