The Transplant Registry

The goals of our Transplant Registry team are to motivate and enhance the efficiency of transplant research while facilitating internal and external research collaboration. The transplant registry team maintains abdominal organ transplant database prospectively and retrospectively. We provide clinical data to researchers, physicians, trainees, clinical care givers and medical students.

Our services:

Creation of an abdominal organ transplant registry, which is prospectively managed:

• The registry creation has been approved by Institutional Review Board at Henry Ford Health System. We continue to work with EPIC software team at Henry Ford to create a system for automated reporting of data related to our transplant activities.

Collecting retrospective transplant clinical data using SQL programming through our electric medical record system from the Epic database:

• After obtaining IRB approval for each study, the Transplant Registry team extract clinical data from the medical record system and merge these with our registry according to data requests from our researchers. This data collection and transition process allow us to efficiently review our clinical experience and provide feedback to our clinical practice.

Collaborating with United Network Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry:

• UNOS data is available to public. We obtain the UNOS transplant registry data periodically for outcome research studies. Our group has been utilizing the UNOS database for our studies and published important papers in highly impactful journals. Our published work includes:
  • Impact of the Acuity Circle Model for Liver Allocation on Multivisceral Transplant Candidates
    Ivanics T, Nagai S, et al. Am J Transplant. 2021.PMID: 34403552
  • Paradigm Change in Liver Transplantation Practice After the Implementation of the Liver-Kidney Allocation Policy
    Nagai S, et al. Liver Transpl. 2021. PMID: 34043869
  • Outcomes in Living Donor Compared with Deceased Donor Primary Liver Transplantation in Lower Acuity Patients with Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Scores <30
    Kitajima T, Nagai S, et al. Liver Transpl. 2021. PMID: 33492764
  • A Share 21 Model in Liver Transplantation: Impact on Waitlist Outcomes
    Nagai S, et al. Am J Transplant. 2020.PMID: 32155314
  • Effects of Allocating Livers for Transplantation Based on Model for End-Stage Liver Disease – Sodium Scores on Patient Outcomes
    Nagai S, et al. Gastroenterology. 2018.PMID: 30056096

Providing education for clinical trainees, research fellows and medical students:

• We welcome trainees and researchers who are interested in transplant outcome research projects. We hold weekly virtual research meeting to discuss on-going projects and new ideas for future studies.