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Sanjay Kulkarni, MD, is a Professor of Surgery (Transplant) at Yale School of Medicine and holds secondary appointments in Nephrology. He serves as Interim Division Chief of Transplant & Immunology Surgery and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Kulkarni also holds leadership positions including Physician Executive Director of Clinical Continuity & Integration at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Medical Director of New England Donor Services.
Dr. Kulkarni's educational background includes an MD from Medical College Wisconsin (1995), BS from University of Wisconsin (1990), and additional training at Harvard University (MHCM, 2018; Global Clinical Scholars Training Program, 2015). His surgical training includes residency and fellowship at University of Chicago Hospitals and international experience at University Hospital Essen, Germany.
Dr. Kulkarni's research centers on living kidney donation, with a particular focus on improving donor outcomes through surgical innovations and ethical considerations in donor care. His clinical program has been one of the largest in New England since 2008, performing innovative procedures like total laparoscopic kidney donation. His research has explored risk tolerance among potential living kidney donors, implementation of patient-centered care for living donors, and addressing racial disparities in transplantation access.
Analysis of Dr. Kulkarni's recent publications (2015-2024) reveals a consistent focus on transplantation ethics, living donor care, and health equity. His work spans bioethics, clinical outcomes research, and health services research, with particular attention to racial disparities in transplantation access and innovative approaches to living donor care. The research demonstrates a progression from clinical innovations to broader ethical and systemic considerations in transplantation medicine.
Dr. Kulkarni has received recognition including the Healthgrades Award for overall program performance in 2010. He has served on committees including UNOS (2013-2015 as Chairperson) and continues to serve as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation since 2019.
As Principal Investigator on numerous clinical research trials, Dr. Kulkarni directs the Yale Transplant Research Unit, which pursues new therapies for transplant patients. He has pioneered the Center for Living Organ Donors at Yale New Haven Hospital, a unique initiative that creates supportive communities for living donors and provides free, lifelong medical monitoring. His work with multi-state modeling to predict the impact of inactive status transitions has provided valuable tools for patients and healthcare providers.
Dr. Kulkarni leads the Center for Living Organ Donors, which has developed innovative approaches to donor care including the "15-second connection" initiative to improve access to living donation for underserved communities. His Yale New Haven Hospitals' Center for Living Organ Donors represents a novel care model that has generated significant research on improving public awareness of living donation and developing local donor communities using a social capital framework.
