Publications

ESSAYS
Xenotransplantation Moves Closer to Reality / Explore Transplant
How outdated stigmas can limit living organ donation / Explore Transplant
Why seeing a therapist almost kept me from donating my kidney / Explore Transplant
The U.S. needs a reliable supply of baby formula.  A new bill in Congress can help / co-authored with Rep. Rosa DeLauro in STAT First Opinion
What if One of My Children Needs a Kidney? / Explore Transplant
Legislative Efforts to Support Living Organ Donors / Explore Transplant
Abundant:  First-Person Stories bout Living Organ Donation / Explore Transplant
5-Year Transplant Anniversary / Explore Transplant
Beyond direct donation:  what if your friends and family don’t match? / Explore Transplant
The high out-of-pocket cost of donating a kidney / STAT First Opinion
Searching for a donor – tips that work / Explore Transplant
A living donor’s thoughts on a new calculator for hypertension risk / Explore Transplant
A good first step… let’s do more! / Explore Transplant
Living Donor Protection Act / Explore Transplant
Transplant patients help each other prevent cancer / Sage Perspectives
Attending the National Kidney Patient Consumer Roundtable / Explore Transplant
I was able to donate a kidney to save a life, but I had to leave Kansas City to help / The Kansas City Star
Living kidney donors rely on a promise to protect our future health. We’re scared it will go away / STAT First Opinion
Will UNOS Break Their Promise? / Explore Transplant
Urgent Opportunity to Protect Living Organ Donors / Disability Media Wire
How Old is Too Old: An Interview with Frank Dewhurst / Explore Transplant
Does Age Matter? / Explore Transplant
Marjorie’s Yarn / Modern Daily Knitting
Let’s Give Living Donors a Checklist / Explore Transplant
Living Kidney Donation:  It’s Too Hard To Do Good / American Journal of Kidney Disease
Introducing Martha Gershun, New Living Donation Guest Blogger / Explore Transplant
Telling Your Story:  The Power of Online Storytelling for Living Kidney Donors / Explore Transplant
I Donated a Kidney / Disability News Wire 
Kidney Donors Should Be Treated Like Philanthropists, not Like Vendors / Bioethics Forum Essay / The Hastings Center
A Perfect Match:  Donating a Kidney to a Stranger / Hadassah Magazine
Kidney to Share:  The Ethics of Living Organ Donation / National Kidney Donation Organization blog
The Gift of Life / Congregation Beth Torah Tekiah
Emma Goldman’s Amber Necklace / Essay Contest Winner, Johnson County Library
The Hatch / Essay Contest Winner, Johnson County Library
I’m In a Mixed Marriage: He’s Vegan. I’m Not / Kveller
CASA meets critical needs for Kansas City’s children / The Kansas City Star
To the 6-Year-Old Girl Whose Bone Marrow Matched My Own / Kveller
Presumed Intimate / HERS:  The New York Times Magazine
 
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
 
Report From a Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Future of Living Kidney Donor Transplantation / Progress in Transplantation
The Pest Hospital: Memory, Vaccines, and Serum Therapy in Kansas City / co-authored with Perri Klass in Journal of Medical Humanities
Child welfare system interventions on behalf of children and families: Highlighting the role of court appointed special advocates / Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care
Breaking the Cycle / The New Yorker
Reading Across the Nation: A Chartbook / Reach Out and Read National Center
When Bad Loans Happen to Good Entrepreneurs / Inc.
SITEL Corporation / Harvard Business School (1998)
Eastwind Trading Company / Harvard Business School (1993) / New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur (3rd, 4th ed.)
Dragonfly Corporation / Harvard Business School (1983) / New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur (2nd, 3rd, 4th, ed.)
Bankruptcy: A Debtor’s Perspective / Harvard Business School (1983) / New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur (2nd, 3rd, 4th ed.)