Joyce A Trompeta, United States

Assistant Professor
Surgery
University of California San Francisco

Dr. Joyce Trompeta is an Assistant Professor who does outcomes research in the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her doctoral degree at UCSF, oversaw UCSF's Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program for 10 years and has expertise in adolescent growth and development. She has served on the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) / United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Board of Directors on the Minority Affairs Committee. Currently, she is on the Council Board of the International Society of Organ Donation & Procurement (ISODP).

As UCSF's International Pacific Rim's Surgical and Medical Liaison, Dr. Trompeta has developed outreach programs to four Hawaiian Islands promoting solid organ transplantation and organ donor awareness. She has developed outreach clinics in Hawaii for UCSF's Interstitial Lung Disease and Lung Transplantation Program, and UCSF's Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program. Dr. Trompeta oversees the Living Kidney Donor Transplant Program for the state of Hawaii. She performs all on-line donor health history screening and orchestrates compatibility testing and medical donor work-ups. She remains clinically active as well as lecturing professionally, nationally and internationally and providing community education. Currently, she collaborating with the transplant community in Kumamoto prefecture of Japan in establishing and promoting "The Kumamoto Model" with the goal to increase organ donation rates.

Dr. Trompeta's program of research examines factors related to organ donation and health disparities, including organ donation practices, medical exclusion related to race and ethnicity, and reasons why donors are unwilling to donate. Dr. Trompeta developed the Organ Donation & Transplantation Knowledge Survey (ODTK) which is psychometrically valid for evaluating knowledge about organ donation and transplantation. Results of her instrument were published in Transplantation Proceedings.



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