Ronald F. Parsons, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Surgery
Contact information
Division of Transplant Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street, 2nd Fl. Ravdin Courtyard Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street, 2nd Fl. Ravdin Courtyard Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 4047272063
Education:
BA
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2000.
MD
University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, 2005.
Permanent linkBA
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2000.
MD
University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, 2005.
Selected Publications
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, American Journal of Kidney Diseases. American Society of Transplantation November 2025.Parajuli S, Mandelbrot D, Stratta RJ, Kandaswamy R, Parsons RF, Singh N, Gruessner A, Kaufman DB, Odorico J.: The Challenge of Minding the Glomerular Filtration Rate Gap Between Pancreas Transplant Alone and Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation: Stuck in the Middle. American Journal of Transplantation 109(7): 1062-1065, July 2025 Notes: Epub 2025 Mar 25.
Parsons RF: Risk Factors for Kidney Disease Progression in Pancreas Alone Recipients Obligate a Kidney Transplant Safety Net. Transplantation 109(6): 901-904, June 2025 Notes: Epub 2024 Dec 12.
Fischer RMJ, Muñoz N, Ong O, L. Abt P, C. Gruessner A, F. Parsons R: National Trends in Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Simultaneous Pancreas–Kidney Transplantation. Clinical Transplantation 2025.
Anand PM, Woodside KJ, Singh N, Alhamad T, Bloom RD, Gupta G, Singer G, Doshi M, Dadhania DM, Tanriover B, Parsons RF, Wagner C, Xiao H, Lentine KL;: Transition of Care of Stable Kidney Transplant Patients to Referring Nephrologists: A Survey of U.S. Transplant Program Staff. Clinical Transplantation 38(11), November 2024.
Singh N, Anand PM, Gupta G, Sawinski D, Fix O, Adey D, Akalin E, Zayas C, Dadhania D, Doshi M, Cibrik D, Gupta M, Parsons R, Leca N, Santos RD, Concepcion BP, Nishio Lucar AG, Ong S, Sridhar VS, Parajuli S, Zachariah M, Mehta S, Soliman K, Shawar S, Husain SA, Preczewski L, Friedewald J, Mohan S, Wiseman A, Samaniego M, Kumar V, Tanriover B, Bloom R.: Should Transplant Nephrology Pursue Recognition from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)? Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 19(8): 1051-1060, August 2024.
Parsons RF, Lentine KL, Doshi M, Dunn TB, Forbes R, Fridell JA, Jesse MT, Pavlakis M, Sawinski D, Singh N, Axelrod DA, Cooper M: Generating strategies for a national comeback in pancreas transplantation: A Delphi survey and US conference report. American Journal of Transplantation(8), 1473-1485, August 2024.
Singh N, Lentine KL, Fleetwood VA, Woodside KJ, Odorico J, Axelrod D, Alhamad T, Maher K, Xiao H, Fridell J, Kukla A, Pavlakis M, Shokouh-Amiri HM, Zibari G, Cooper M, Parsons RF. : Indications, Techniques, and Barriers for Pancreas Transplant Biopsy: A Consensus Perspective from a Survey of US Centers. Transplantation 108(7): 129-138, July 2024.
Nishio Lucar AG, Patel A, Mehta S, Yadav A, Doshi M, Urbanski MA, Concepcion BP, Singh N, Sanders ML, Basu A, Harding JL, Rossi A, Adebiyi OO, Samaniego-Picota M, Woodside KJ, Parsons RF.: Expanding the access to kidney transplantation: Strategies for kidney transplant programs. Clinical Transplantation May 2024.
Drachenberg CB, Buettner-Herold M, Aguiar PV, Horsfield C, Mikhailov AV, Papadimitriou JC, Seshan SV, Perosa M, Boggi U, Uva P, Rickels M, Grzyb K, Arend L, Cuatrecasas M, Toniolo MF, Farris AB, Renaudin K, Zhang L, Roufousse C, Gruessner A, Gruessner R, Kandaswamy R, White S, Burke G, Cantarovich D, Parsons RF, Cooper M, Kudva YC, Kukla A, Haririan A, Parajuli S, Merino-Torres JF, Argente-Pla M, Meier R, Dunn T, Ugarte R, Rao JS, Vistoli F, Stratta R, Odorico J.: Banff 2022 pancreas transplantation multidisciplinary report: Refinement of guidelines for T cell-mediated rejection, antibody-mediated rejection and islet pathology. Assessment of duodenal cuff biopsies and noninvasive diagnostic methods. American Journal of Transplant 3: 362-379, March 2024.