Roy D. Bloom - Faculty Biosketch

Roy D. Bloom, MBBCh.

Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Medical Director, Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Department: Medicine

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Department of Medicine
3a Division of Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6144

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Email:
roy.bloom@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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13 Education:
21 8 BSc 28 (Physiology and Biochemistry) c
34 University of Witwatersrand, 1980.
21 e M.B.B.Ch. c
34 University of Witwatersrand, 1983.
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Links
111 Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Clinical Trials--Kidney Transplant
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de Penn's Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division
121 Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Research Interests--Nephrology Clinical Research
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 79 Intern in Medicine and General Surgery, (6 mos. each) , Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa, 1984-1984.
24 61 Senior House Officer, Cardiothoracics , Guy's Hospital, London, UK , 1985-1985.
24 63 Senior House Officer, Internal Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, 1985-1986.
24 66 Senior House Officer, Internal Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK, 1986-1987.
24 70 Intern & Resident, Internal Medicine , Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phila, PA , 1987-1990.
24 71 Senior House Officer, Nephrology, St. Phillip's & St. Paul's Hospitals, London, UK, 1987-1987.
24 76 Fellow in Renal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, MA , 1990-1992.
24 8a Fellowship, Renal Electrolyte & Hypertension Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Phila, PA, 1992-1994.
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17 Certifications
28 59 American Board of Internal Medicine - Nephrology Recertification, 2007.
28 59 American Board of Internal Medicine - Nephrology Recertification, 2017.
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Selected Publications

164 Valenzuela NM, Lan J, Hitchman KMK, Amstutz U, Bloom RD, Levine DJ, Mengel M, Mannon RB.: 2025 Report of the Sensitization in Transplantation: Assessment of Risk Working Group on donor-derived cell-free DNA: Establishing analytical validity as the basis for appropriate and effective clinical utilization. 44 Am J Transplant 26(1): 20-31, January 2026.

114 Potluri VS, Rubin J, Zee J, Ratcliffe SJ, Harhay MO, Abt PL, Vail EA, Parikh CR, Bloom RD, Gasparini A, Crowther M, Goldberg DS, Reese PP: Assessing Deceased-Donor Kidneys Through Posttransplant Survival Prediction Algorithms 44 Am J Kidney Dis 87(1): 18-30, January 2026.

1ac Tandukar S, Potluri V, Abt P, Kaplan DE, Bittermann T,Besharatian B, Hoteit MA, Levine M, Thomasson A, Hryzak S, Murali A, Thapaliya S, Ranganna K, Bloom RD, Dunn TB, Lim MA : Outcomes of simultaneous liver-kidney transplant and kidney after liver transplant using the safety net criteria – a single center experience. Transplant Direct (in press) 2026.

1af Anand PM, Singh N, Gupta G, Doshi M, Tanriover B, Adey D, Lentine KL, Niederhaus S, Parsons RF, Wiseman A, Cooper M, Singer G, Dadhania D, Bloom RD.: Transition of Care of Kidney Recipients from Transplant Centers to Referring Nephrologists: Report From the American Society of Transplantation Controversies Conference. Am J Kidney Dis. 86(5), November 2025.

12a Tandukar S, Wu Q, Chandrashekar S, Shah D, Chiang C, Couch K, Trofe J, Sonnenberg EM, Abt P, Lim MA, Potluri V, Bloom R.: Long-Term Outcomes of BK Viremia in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Clin Transplant 39(10), October 2025.

28c Kobashigawa J, Levitsky J, Singh N, Khush K, Pinney S, Aby E, Afzal A, Adey D, Bhalla A, Doshi M, Farouk S, Fox A, Hall S, Kittleson M, King L, Kuo A, Levine D, Manla Y, Modaresi Esfeh J, Mufti A, Anand PM, Nurok M, Norvell JP, Parikh N, Pillai A, Pradhan F, Ramsey A, Samaniego-Picota M, Poojary-Hohman I, Samra M, Sawinski D, Schlendorf K, Sweet S, Tanriover B, Virmani S, Bloom RD.: Recommendations to overcome barriers to transplant fellowship training: A report from the American Society of Transplantation Fellows Task Force. Am J Transplant. 25(8): 1601-1613, August 2025.

1b6 Ariyamuthu VK, Cheng XS, Hippen B, Bloom RD, Acharya D, Araj F, Gungor AB, Alhamad T, Singh N, Anand PM, Gupta G, Akalin E, Molnar MZ, Mete M, Ayvaci MUS, Doshi M, Tanriover B.: "The Final Rule in a Bind: What We Are Learning From Suboptimal Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Outcomes and Potential Solutions to the Problem": Erratum. Transplantation. 109(8), August 2025.

176 Klötzer KA, Abedini A, Li S, Balzer MS, Liang X, Levinsohn J, Ha E, Dumoulin B, Hogan JJ, Quinn G, Bloom RD, Schuller M, Eller K, Halmos B, Zhang NR, Susztak K.: Analysis of individual patient pathway coordination in a cross-species single-cell kidney atlas. Nat Genet. 57(8): 1922-1934, August 2025.

1b1 Ariyamuthu VK, Cheng XS, Hippen B, Bloom RD, Acharya D, Araj F, Gungor AB, Alhamad T, Singh N, Anand PM, Gupta G, Akalin E, Molnar MZ, Mete M, Ayvaci M, Doshi M, Tanriover B.: The Final Rule in a Bind: What We are Learning from Suboptimal Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Outcomes and Potential Solutions to the Problem Transplantation 109(6): e317-e325. June 2025.

e0 Seif N, Bloom RD: Using Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Kidney Transplant Patients: This Jury Needs More Evidence. Kidney Int 107(5): 796-799, May 2025.

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