Brendan Parent
@parent_brendan
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Assistant Professor of Bioethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Director of Transplant Ethics and Policy Research; ethics of genetics, big data and AI
Manhattan, NY
Joined June 2016
RT @FuchsWriter: Scientists are learning how to transplant pig hearts and kidneys into humans whose own organs aren't working. But religiou….
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RT @PeterPReese1: More in our manuscript about processes of informed consent, the need to avoid financial toxicity, and bystander education….
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RT @NYUGSOM_CSTAR: 🤔Did you know that the history of xenotransplantation predates allotransplantation?🤯Learn about the >100 year timeline o….
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Great perspective on trend toward approving meds with limited evidence by @ABatemanHouse How to Make Experimental Treatment Less of a Gamble
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Regulators must balance patient’s needs with their safety.
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RT @NYUGSOM_CSTAR: When pigs fly? The 1st successful genetically modified porcine-to-human heart🫀🐖xenotransplant took place earlier this ye….
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RT @WIRED: The pigs had been dead for an hour. But 6 hours after researchers connected their bodies to a machine pumping a nutrient-rich fl….
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Amazing restoration of cell function by Yale team incl. @DavidAndrijevic. For future #emergencymedicine #transplant or both?
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RT @curiousdrgeorge: A Comment by @parent_brendan in @nature takes gives an overview of the use of extracorporeal life support like OrganEx….
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Nature - Procedures used in life support and to preserve organs in deceased human donors might one day need to be re-evaluated in the wake of a study that restored some cell function in pigs one...
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RT @pophealthNYC: A ‘Reversible’ Form of Death? As part of a new study, Yale researchers restored some cell function in pigs 1hr after deat….
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RT @DGlaucomflecken: Last 48 hrs Ive been hearing all the reasons why universal health care in other countries sucks: high taxes, wait time….
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RT @ArthurCaplan: Ethics and the emerging use of pig organs for xenotransplantation - ScienceDirect.@ARTHURCAPLAN @parent_brendan #pig. #….
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RT @DrMaceyLevan: During @ATCMeeting Presidential Address, Dr. Gill reminded us about the progress passing the landmark Immuno Bill in 2020….
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RT @PeterPReese1: Key issue is transparency. Data on xeno-infections that could put close contacts or general public at risk should be shar….
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RT @AnnalsofIM: @PeterPReese1 @parent_brendan discuss need for greater regulation and oversight in transplant of animal organs to humans to….
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RT @PeterPReese1: The risks involve patients, their families, even the wider community. Brendan Parent and I argue that now is the time to….
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Promoting Safety, Transparency, and Quality in Xenotransplantation | Annals of Internal Medicine @PeterPReese1 #Transplant.
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RT @amjtransplant: Viewpoint by Brendan Parent et al, “Response to American College of Physician's statement on the ethics of transplant af….
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