This June, the CDRP will host the Mt. Hood Diabetes Challenge, an international conference for researchers and policy analysts working in health economics and disease simulation modeling in the field of diabetes.
All of the issues that we struggle with in our health care system in general are magnified within kidney disease.
My lab has been examining the current kidney allocation system and its algorithm from various angles and trying to advocate for improvements to make the system more efficient and more equitable.
Kidney disease contains all the problems of the American healthcare system, just more intensely.