Investigators

Our Research Team

We bring transplantation, epidemiology, operations research, statistics, and policy together around one table.

Transplant medicine Biostatistics Simulation Health policy

Principal investigators

Contact principal investigator

Maryam
ValapourMD, MPP

Director, Lung Transplant Outcomes · Clinical and policy leadership

Principal investigator

Jarrod
DaltonPhD

Director and Associate Professor · Statistical methodology and simulation science

Principal investigator

Johnie
RoseMD, PhD

Director and Associate Professor · Population health and policy evaluation

Project team

Built for collaborative science.

Paul GunsalusMS

Lead Data Scientist

Developer and maintainer of the COMET simulation model. Statistical collaborator on our research studies.

Samantha BakerMS, MEd

Biostatistician

Statistical collaborator on our research studies. Contributor to our open source simulation models.

Carli LehrMD, PhD

Transplant Pulmonologist

Academic clinician and scientist in pulmonary medicine and lung transplantation.

Jodi BellMA

Research Program Manager

Day-to-day project team operations and administrative leadership.

How we work

No single discipline can see the whole system.

Clinical expertise keeps the questions grounded in transplant reality. Statistical science gives us defensible evidence. Simulation reveals the system-level consequences of individual decisions.

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