ISyE Seminar Series: Jon Snyder
"The U.S. Organ Transplant System: Taking a Systems Engineering Approach"
Jon Snyder
Director of Transplant Epidemiology for the Chronic Disease Research Group
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute
About the Seminar:
The organ transplant system in the United States is a complex system designed to allocate the limited resource of donated organs to the more than 100,000 individuals awaiting life-saving transplants. A set of organ allocation policies aims to provide the donated organs to the recipients in need in a predetermined order to achieve a set of principles guided by federal regulations. In this seminar, we will delve into the intricacies of the organ donation and transplantation system in the United States, examine its historical development and evolution of allocation policies, and explore the growing role of engineering in facilitating the continuous enhancement of this system.
About the Speaker:
Jon Snyder, PhD, is the Director of Transplant Epidemiology for the Chronic Disease Research Group of the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He serves as the Director of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. He is a Statistical Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation, an Associate Editor of the journal Transplantation, and he has co-authored more than 150 publications. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the Clinical Policy Board of LifeSource and is a member of the Board of Directors of The Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance. Dr. Snyder is the recipient of the 2023 Research Excellence Award from Hennepin Healthcare and the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Snyder earned his Doctorate in Epidemiology and his Masters in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota.
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