Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH

Contact : krossdr@iu.edu

Everyone who needs a transplant should have a fair opportunity to receive one. As a researcher, I want to improve the patient experience of care and increase access to transplant for all.

Initiatives

Research Scientist, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Katie Ross-Driscoll is a health services researcher with a focus on social epidemiology and its application to the study of health disparities in patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD). Her work delves into the relationship between access to care, care quality and the resulting racial, socioeconomic and geographic disparities in outcomes for ESLD patients. Her primary passion lies in investigating inequity in liver transplantation, the sole curative option for ESLD patients, which is uniquely constrained by organ scarcity and impacted by rapidly evolving allocation policy. Her collaborative approach involves working closely with hepatologists, surgeons and other researchers to unravel and address the multi-level factors shaping disparities among liver disease patients. She also studies how to improve access to transplant by increasing procurement and utilization of deceased donor organs. She has additional methodological interests in spatial epidemiology, multilevel modeling and equity-focused quality improvement.

Featured Projects

Identifying determinants of access to the early steps of liver transplant: the Georgia Indiana (GAIN) Liver Study

NIH / NIMHD K01

Role: Principal Investigator

This mixed-methods study aims to uncover and prepare to intervene upon multi-level factors influencing liver transplant referral and evaluation.

Veteran access and limitations to organ recovery (VALOR) Study

NIH / NIMHD R01

Role: Co-Investigator

This study aims to improve organ donation practices within VA medical centers, ultimately informing better donation care nationwide.

Highlighted Publications

Sep 2023

Identifying and understanding variation in population-based access to liver transplantation in the United States

Publication: American Journal of Transplantation

doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.06.002

Authors: Ross-Driscoll K, Gunasti J, Ayuk-Arrey AT, Adler JT, Axelrod D, McElroy L, Patzer RE, Lynch R

April 2023

The impact of selection bias in transplant research intended to inform patient selection: An example and potential solutions

Publication: Transplantation

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004463

Authors: Ross-Driscoll K, Harding JL, Labgold K, Gunasti J, Lynch RJ, Patzer RE

Oct 2021

Ecological factors and post-transplant outcomes: Causation or correlation?

Publication: American Journal of Transplantation

doi:10.1111/ajt.16716

Authors: Ross-Driscoll K, Patzer RE, Axelrod A

Dec 2020

Variation in racial disparities in liver transplant outcomes across transplant centers in the United States

Publication: Liver Transplantation

doi:10.1002/lt.25918

Authors: Ross-Driscoll K, Kramer M, Lynch R, Plantinga L, Wedd J, Patzer RE

Dec 2020

Using geographic catchment areas to measure population-based access to kidney transplant

Publication: Transplantation

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003369

Authors: Ross-Driscoll K, Axelrod DA, Lynch RJ, Patzer RE

Sept 2019

Rural-urban disparities in in-hospital mortality among end-stage liver disease admissions in the United States

Publication: Liver Transplantation

doi: 10.1002/lt.25587

Authors: Ross K, Patzer RE, Goldberg D, Osborne N, Lynch R

Nov 2017

Sociodemographic determinants of waitlist and post-transplant survival among end-stage liver disease patients

Publication: American Journal of Transplantation

doi: 10.1111/ajt.14421

Authors: Ross K, Goldberg D, Patzer RE, Lynch R

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