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.

Links
Penn Kidney Transplant Program
Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Clinical Trials--Kidney Transplant
Penn's Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division
Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Research Interests--Nephrology Clinical Research

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.

Permanent link

> Perelman School of Medicine > Faculty > Details

Selected Publications

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 101(5), May 2017.

Lim MA, Palmer M, Trofe-Clark J, Bloom RD, Jackson A, Philogene MC, Kamoun M: Histopathologic Changes in anti-angiotensin II type 1 receptor antibody-positive kidney transplant recipients with acute rejection and no donor specific HLA antibody. Human Immunology 78(4): 350-356, April 2017.

Goldberg DS, Abt PL, Blumberg E, Van Deerlin VM, Levine M, Reddy KR, Bloom RD, Nazarian SM, Sawinski D, Porrett P, Naji A, Hasz R, Suplee L, Trofe J, Sicilia A, McCauley M, Farooqi M, Gentile C, Smith J, Reese PP: Transplanting hepatitis-C infected kidneys into uninfected recipients. New England Journal of Medicine April 2017.

Reese PP, Bloom RD, Trofe-Clark J, Mussell A, Leidy D, Levsky S, Zhu J, Lin Y, Wang W, Troxel A, Feldman HI, Volpp K: Automated Reminders and Physician Notification to Promote Immunosuppression Adherence among Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Randomized Trial. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 69(3): 400-409, March 2017.

Rossidis A, Lim MA, Palmer M, Levine MH, Naji A, Bloom RD, Abt PL: Kidney Transplantation from a Donor with Sickle Cell Disease. American Journal of Transplantation 17(2): 569-571, February 2017.

Choudhury RA, Reese PP, Goldberg DS, Bloom RD, Sawinski DL, Abt PL: A Paired Kidney Analysis of Multiorgan Transplantation: Implications for Allograft Survival. Transplantation 101(2): 368-376. February 2017.

Lim MA, Kohli J, Bloom RD: Immunosuppression for Kidney Transplantation: Where are we now and where are we going? Transplantation Reviews 31(1): 10-17, January 2017.

Bloom RD, Bromberg JS, Poggio E, Bunnapradist S, Langone A, Sood P, Matas A, Mehta S, Sharfuddin A, Fischbach B, Narayanan M, Jordan S, Cohen D, Hiller D, Prasad P, Woodward R, Grskovic M, Sninsky J, Yee JP and Brennan DC: Cell-free DNA and Active Rejection in Kidney Allografts. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (in press) 2017.

Bromberg JS, Brennan DC, Poggio E, Bunnapradist S, Langone A, Sood P, Matas AJ, Mannon RB, Mehta S, Sharfuddin A, Fischbach B, Narayanan M, Jordan SC, Cohen DJ, Zaky ZS, Hiller D, Woodward RN, Grskovic M, Sninsky JJ, Yee JP, and Bloom RD : Biological Variation of Donor-derived Cell-free DNA in Renal Transplant Recipients: Clinical Implications Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine (in press) 2017.

Bromberg JS, Brennan DC, Poggio E, Bunnapradist S, Langone A, Sood P, Matas AJ, Mehta S, Sharfuddin A, Fischbach B, Narayanan M, Jordan SC, Cohen DJ, Zaky ZS, Hiller D, Woodward RN, Grskovic M, Sninsky JJ, Yee JP, and Bloom RD. : Biological Variation of Donor-derived Cell-free DNA in Renal Transplant Recipients: Clinical Implications The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine (in press) 2017.