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MBE/MSME Alumni Colloquium: “Ensuring Ethical Approaches to Xenotransplantation”
Speaker: Laura Kimberly, PhD, MBE
BIO: Laura L. Kimberly, PhD, MSW, MBE is an Assistant Professor in the Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery and the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Population Health at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine. Her research explores ethical and psychosocial implications of innovative surgical interventions, with a focus on health equity and quality of life across the lifespan. She has published extensively on ethical and psychosocial considerations in vascularized composite allotransplantation, xenotransplantation, and innovations in solid organ donation and transplantation. Dr. Kimberly is a faculty collaborator in the NYU Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research and a member of the NYU Transplant Ethics and Policy Research Program Advisory Board. Beyond NYU, she serves on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Transplantation’s Psychosocial and Ethics Community of Practice.
