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.

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.

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.

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.

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 is costly. Am J Transplant. 2017;17(2)578-580.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. *co-first authors.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. *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.

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.

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.

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.