Description of Research Expertise

Dr. Courtwright is a clinician in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. His research is divided between issues in resource allocation in lung transplantation and clinical ethics.

Dr. Courtwright is currently focused on three projects: 1) refining our understanding of HLA antibodies pre- and post-transplant to improve access to lung transplantation for sensitized patients. 2) Strategies for expanding the lung donor pool, including utilization of hepatitis B donors. 3) Transplantation ethics, including organ procurement via normothermic regional perfusion and xenotransplantation. In addition, he is involved in collaborative work on telomere biology disorders and lung transplantation with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ethics consultation research with the Massachusetts General Hospital Ethics Committee, and bacteriophage therapy and infection following lung transplantation with the University of California San Diego.

Selected Publications

Drolen C, Cantu E, Goldberg HJ, Diamond JM, Courtwright AM: Impact of the elimination of the Donation Service Area on United States lung transplant practices and outcomes at high and low competition centers. American Journal of Transplantation 20 (12): 3271-3703,2020.

Nathan AS, Blebea C, Chatterjee P, Thomasson A, Diamond JM, Groeneveld PW, Giri J, Goldberg HJ, Courtwright AM.: Mortality trends around the one‐year survival mark after heart, liver, and lung transplantation in the United States. Clinical Transplantation 34 (2): e13852,2020.

Courtwright AM, Rubin E, Robinson EM, Thomasson A, El-Chemaly S, Diamond JM, Goldberg HJ.: In-hospital and subsequent mortality among lung transplant recipients with a prolonged initial hospitalization. American Journal of Transplantation 19 (2): 532-9,2018.

Lamas Daniela J, Lakin Joshua R, Trindade Anil J, Courtwright Andrew, Goldberg Hilary: Looking beyond mortality in transplantation outcomes. The New England Journal of Medicine 379 (20): 1889-1891,2018.

Courtwright AM, Cao S, Wood I, Mallidi HR, Kawasawa J, Moniodis A, Ng J, El-Chemaly S, Goldberg HJ: Clinical outcomes of lung transplantation in the presence of donor-specific antibodies. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 16 (9): 1131-1137,2019.

Courtwright AM, Fried S, Villalba JA, Moniodis A, Guleria I, Wood I, Milford E, Mallidi HH, Hunninghake GM, Raby BA, Agarwal S, Camp PC, Rosas IO, Goldberg HJ, El-Chemaly S: Association of donor and recipient telomere length with clinical outcomes following lung transplantation. PloS One 11 (9): e0162409,2016.

Courtwright AM, El-Chemaly S, Dellaripa PF, Goldberg HJ: Survival and outcomes after lung transplantation for non-scleroderma connective tissue-related interstitial lung disease. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 36 (7): 763-9,2017.

Courtwright AM, Robinson EM, Feins K, Carr-Loveland J, Donahue V, Roy N, McCannon J: Ethics committee consultation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 13 (9): 1553-1558,2016.

Robinson EM, Cadge W, Zollfrank AA, Cremens MC, Courtwright AM: After the DNR: Surrogates who persist in requesting cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The Hastings Center Report 47 (1): 10-19,2017.

Courtwright, AM: Stigmatization and public health ethics. Bioethics 27 (2): 74-80,2011.

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