Jon interviews Dr. Stephen Wall from NYU on the podcast where they discuss the need for organs and how ECPR inclusion criteria can significantly impact the problem.

Stephen P. Wall, MD MSHS MAEd, is Tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of

Emergency Medicine and Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr Wall was

project manager and lead methodologist for the NYC uncontrolled donation after circulatory death

(uDCD) program that attempted to increase kidney donation opportunities by considering those who

die unexpectedly outside hospitals. Results showed the public was supportive of uDCD, so long as

permission is obtained prior to any invasive procedures being performed on the deceased. Lessons

learned from the Kidney uDCD program provided justification to attempt in-hospital Lung uDCD in

NYC, a project funded by NHLBI (R61/R33HL156890 – PIs Wall and Robert Montgomery, MD PhD).

These projects involve cross-disciplinary collaborations with bioethicists, clinical experts from

medicine, surgery, emergency medicine, and transplantation, both within and external to hospitals

and academic medical centers. Dr. Wall’s research was covered in news media including NPR,

NBC, and the Atlantic.