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Joyce Trompeta, UC San Francisco

Associate Professor,
Surgery
She/Her/Hers

Dr. Joyce Trompeta is an Associate Professor who conducts outcomes research in the Depart of Surgery in the School of Medicine at UCSF. Her 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. She directs UCSF’s pediatric, Hawaii and international living donor kidney transplant programs, and developed UCSF’s kidney/pancreas transplant and lung transplant/interstitial lung disease outreach clinics in Hawaii.

She has served on the Boards of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network / United Network for Organ Sharing – Minority Affairs Committee, International Transplant Nurses Society as past-President, and Council Board of the International Society of Organ Donation & Procurement as US representative. She was recently nominated to serve as member & chairperson for Health & Human Services Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation.

Dr. Trompeta is a Fulbright Scholar who plans to return to Japan to resume her Fulbright research to examine why organ donation rates are low and identify areas of education targeted to both young and older generations. She has created “The Kumamoto Model,” a strategic plan to increase deceased organ donations in Kumamoto Prefecture supported by Governor Kabashima, and has developed a nationwide slogan: “Extend Life. Do the Honor. Be an Organ Donor.”

Email: joyce.trompeta@ucsf.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/joyce.trompeta
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-trompeta-phd-3a41783a/

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