Thiessen Publications

Thiessen C, Schwarze G, Ubel P. How anticipation of agent-regret can undermine clinical decision-making. Am J Bioeth. 2025;25(2):26-28. doi:10.1080/15265161.2024.2441756

Thiessen C, Gannon J, Li S, Gray D, Dobosz D, Kennedy K, Mussell A, Skrip L, Reese P, Gordon E, Kulkarni S. Quantifying risk tolerance among potential living kidney donors with the Donation-Specific Risk Questionnaire. Am J Kidney Dis. 2021;78(2):246-258. doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2020.11.028

McCauley M, Mussell A, Goldberg D, Sawinski D, Molina N, Tomlin R, Doshi S, Abt P, Bloom R, Blumberg E, Kulkarni S, Esnola G, Shults J, Thiessen C, Reese P. Race, risk, and willingness of end-stage renal disease patients without hepatitis C (HCV) to accept an HCV-infected kidney. Transplantation. 2018;102(4):e163-e170. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000002099

Mallepeddi S, Patel PD, D’Amico C, Thiessen C. Ethical and Policy Issues Arising in Crowdfunding for Solid Organ Transplantation: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Recipient and Donor Fundraising Campaigns. Transplant Proc. 2024;56(6):1216-1221. doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2024.03.040

Mittelman M*, Thiessen C*, Butt Z, Chon J, Clayville K, Cronin D, Fisher J, Fry-Revere S, Gross J, Hanneman J, Henderson M, Ladin K, Mysel H, Sherman L, Willock L, Gordon EJ. Miscommunicating NOTA Can Be Costly to Living Donors. Am J Transplant. 2017;17(2)578-580. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14036 *Co-first authors

Fisher J, Butt Z, Friedewald J, Fry-Revere S, Hanneman J, Henderson M, Ladin K, Mysel H, Preczewski L, Sherman L, Thiessen C, Gordon E. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Charting an ethical course for research into financial incentives for living kidney donation. Am J Transplant.2015;15(5)1180-1186. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13234

Lee-Riddle GS, Thiessen C, Parent B, Goldberg A, Jones JL, Gordon EJ. Ethical considerations of conditional directed living donation North American perspective. Am J Transplant. 2025 Jan;25(1):223-224. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.09.023 

Jesse M, Jackson W, Liapakis A, Ganesh S, Humar A, Goldaracena N, Levitsky J, Mulligan D, Pomfret E, Ladner D, Roberts J, Mavis A, Thiessen C, Trotter J, Winder G, Griesemer A, Pillai A, Kumar V, Verna E, LaPointe Rudow D, Han H, on behalf of the LDLT Consensus Working Group. Living donor liver transplant candidate and donor selection and engagement: Meeting report from a living donor liver transplant consensus conference. Clin Transplant. 2023;37(7):e14954. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14954

Pillai A, Verna EC, Parikh N, Cooper M, Thiessen C, Heimbach J, Gordon EJ, Sapisochin G, Selzner N, Mathur A, Perito ER, Jesse M, Liapakis A, Kumar V on behalf of the LDLT Consensus Working Group. Financial, policy, and ethical barriers to the expansion of living donor liver transplant: Meeting report from a living donor liver transplant consensus conference. Clin Transplant. 2023;37(7):e14955. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14955

Dorflinger L, Kulkarni S, Thiessen C, Klarman S, Fraenkel L. Assessing living donor priorities through nominal group technique. Prog Transplant. 2018;28(1):29-35. doi: 10.1177/1526924817746682

Kulkarni S, Thiessen C, Formica R, Schilsky M, Mulligan D, D’Aquila R. The long-term follow-up & support for living organ donors: A center-based solution founded on developing a community of living donors. Am J Transplant. 2016;16(12):3385-3391. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14005

Thiessen C, Gordon E, Reese P, Kulkarni S. Development of a donor-centered approach to risk assessment: Rebalancing non-maleficence and autonomy. Am J Transplant. 2015;15(9):2314-2323. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13272

Thiessen C, Kim Y, Formica R, Bia M, Kulkarni S. Written informed consent for living kidney donors: Practices and compliance with CMS and OPTN requirements. Am J Transplant. 2013;13(10):2713-2721. doi: 10.1111/ajt.12406

Reese P, Allen M, Carney C, Leidy D, Levsky S, Pendse R, Mussell A, Bermudez F, Keddem S, Thiessen C, Rodrigue J, Emanuel E. Outcomes for individuals turned down for living kidney donation. Clin Transplant. 2018(12):e13408. doi: 10.1111/ctr.13408

Thiessen C, Kulkarni S. The psychosocial impact of withdrawing from living kidney donor evaluation. Cur Transplant Rep. 2018;5(1):64-71. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103512

Thiessen C, Jaji Z, Joyce M, Zimbrean P, Reese PP, Gordon EJ, Kulkarni S. Opting out: A pilot study assessing the reasons for and the psychosocial impact of withdrawing from living kidney donor evaluation. J Med Ethics. 2017;43(11):756-761. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103512

Thiessen C, Kulkarni S, Reese P, Gordon E. A call for research on individuals who opt out of living kidney donation: Challenges and opportunities. Transplant. 2016;100(12)2527-2532. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001408

Thiessen C, Kim Y, Formica R, Bia M, Kulkarni S. Opting out: Confidentiality and availability of an “alibi” for potential living kidney donors. J Med Ethics. 2015;41(7)506-510. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2014-102184

Thiessen C, Kim Y, Yoo P, Rodriguez-Davalos MI, Mulligan DC, Kulkarni S. Informed consent for living liver donation: Compliance with CMS & OPTN requirements and alibi offers. Liv Transplant. 2014;20(4)416-424. doi: 10.1002/lt.23822

Parent B, Thiessen C, Wall A, Levan M, Gordon EJ. A clarified interpretation of permanence justifies death determination in NRP protocols.  Am J Bioeth. 2024;24(6):46-48. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2337402

Thiessen C, Gordon EJ, Kelly B, Wall A. The ethics of donation after circulatory death organ recovery: An overview of new considerations arising from procurement practice and policy changes. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2023;28(2):133-138. doi: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000001046

Thiessen C*, Wisel SA*, Roll GR. Simultaneous thoracic and abdominal DCD organ recovery: The abdominal surgeon’s perspective. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2023;28(2):139-144. doi: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000001045 *Co-first authors

Wall AE, Thiessen C, Pomfret EA. Organ Procurement Using Normothermic Regional Perfusion. Letter to the editor. JAMA. 2023;330(14):1390. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.16887

Wisel SA, Steggerda J, Thiessen C, Roll GR, Chen Q, Thomas J, Kaur B, Catarino P, Chikwe J, Kim I. Preserved 2-y liver transplant outcomes following simultaneous thoracoabdominal DCD organ procurement despite effects on liver utilization rate. Transplant Dir. 2023;9(11):e1528. doi: 10.1097/TXD.0000000000001528

Wisel S*, Thiessen C*, Day R, Belin J, Syed S, Hirose R, Ascher NL, Roberts J, Freise C. Setting rules for the sandbox: A response to “Successfully sharing the sandbox: A perspective on combined DCD liver and heart donor procurement.” Am J Transplant. 2021;21(5):1981-1982. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16426

Gyngell C, Munsi M, Fujita M, Thiessen C, Savulescu J. Ethical analysis of the first porcine cardiac xenotransplantation. J Med Ethics. 2024;50(6):363-367. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108685

Weinlander E, Erb B, Thiessen C. An eye for an eye?: Problematic risk-benefit tradeoffs in whole eye transplantation. Am J Bioethics. 2024;24(5):75-79. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2328285

 

Cohen D, Mandelbrot D, Thiessen C. Voucher Donation: Will the Promise be Realized?. Kidney Int Rep. 2025;10:3724–3726. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2025.09.014

Garg N, Thiessen C, Garonzik Wang J, Mezrich J, Mandelbrot D. Navigating challenges in recipient selection for end-chain kidneys. Am J Transplant. 2025;25(3):471-475. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.10.018

Garg N, Thiessen C, Reese P, Cooper M, Leishman R, Friedewald J, Sharuffdin A, Nishio Lucar AG, Dadhania DM, Kumar V, Waterman A, Mandelbrot D. Temporal trends in kidney paired donation in the United States: 2006-2021 UNOS/OPTN database analysis. Am J Transplant. 2024;24(1):46-56. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.09.006

Thiessen C, Chlebeck P, Radke N, Tamburrini R, Al-Adra D, Fernandez L, Odorico JS. Total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation (TP-IAT) for chronic pancreatitis relieves pain and mitigates diabetes development. Wisconsin Medical Journal 2025;124(4):326-332.

Fedorova E, Firmino SN, Kaufman D, Odorico J, Aufhauser D, Thiessen C, Al-Adra D, Mandelbrot D, Astor BC, Parajuli S. Pre-transplant hypoalbuminemia is not associated with early key outcomes among simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant recipients. Transpl Int. 2025;38:14091. doi: 10.3389/ti.2025.14091

Scolarici M, Kuehler D, Osborn R, Doyle A, Schiffman E, Garvin A, Villalba JA, Ramos CJ, Paddock CD, Annambhotla PD, Taylor M, Salzer JS, Saddler C, Thiessen C, Kandaswamy R, Odorico J. Donor-derived Ehrlichiosis caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis from a living donor kidney transplant. Emerg Infect Dis. 2025;31(3): 587-590. doi: 10.3201/eid3103.241723

Thiessen C, Jacobson N, Campbell T. Don’t let the label “palliative care” stand in the way of meeting the needs of patients with graft loss. Invited commentary. Am J Kidney Dis. 2024;83(2): 136-138. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2023.11.001

Parajuli S, Muth B, Bloom M, Ptak L, Aufhasuer D, Thiessen C, Al-Adra D, Mezrich J, Neidlinger N, Odorico J, Garonzik-Wang J, Foley D, Kaufman D, Mandelbrot DA. A randomized controlled trial of envarsus versus immediate release tacrolimus in kidney transplant recipients with delayed graft function. Transplant Proc. 2023;55(7):1568-1574. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2023.05.025

Kulkarni S, Hall I, Formica R, Thiessen C, Stewart D, Gan G, Greene E, Deng Y. Transition probabilities between changing sensitization levels, waitlist activity status, and competing-risk kidney transplant outcomes using multi-state modeling. PLOS One. 2017; 12(12):e0190277. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190277

Thiessen C, Wang J, Skrip L, Yoo P. Patient and graft survival among sexagenarian & septuagenarian renal transplant recipients and donors. Prog Transplant. 2017;27(3):257-265. doi: 10.1177/1526924817715469

 

Thiessen C*, Wisel S*, Yamaguchi S, Dietch Z, Feng S, Freise C. Rapid modification of workflows and fellow staffing at a single transplant center to address the COVID crisis. Transplant Proc. 2020;52(9):2596-2600. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2020.05.002 *Co-first authors

Ying L, Harrington A, Assi R, Thiessen C, Contessa J, Hubbard MO, Yoo P, Nadzam GS. Measuring uncertainty intolerance in surgical residents using standardized assessments. J Sur Res. 2020;245(1):145-152. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2019.07.035

Sofaer N, Thiessen C, Campbell EG, Ballou J, Getz KA, Goold S, Koski K, Krueger RA, and Weissman JS. Subjects’ views of obligations to ensure post-trial access to drugs, care, and information: Qualitative results from the Experiences of Participants in Clinical Trials (EPIC) Study (2009). J Med Ethics. 35, 183-188. doi:  10.1136/jme.2008.024711

Weissman JS, Koski G, Vogeli C, Thiessen C, Campbell E. Opinions of IRB members and chairs regarding responsibilities of research investigators. J Emp Res Hum Rese Ethics. 2008;3(1):3-13. doi: 10.1525/jer.2008.3.1.3

Thiessen C, Ssekubugu R, Wagman J,  Kiddugavu M, Wawer MJ, Emanuel E, Gray R, Serwada D, Grady C. Personal and community benefits and harms of research: Views from Rakai, Uganda. AIDS. 2007;21(18):2493-2501. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f029d3