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Amy Perry, Karim Soliman, Erika Andrade, Zaid Mesmar, Morgan Overstreet, Tibor Fulop, Isabel K. Calimlim, Courtney Harris, David J. Taber. Secular trends in cytomegalovirus (CMV) risk and outcomes: results from a 10-year longitudinal cohort study in adult kidney transplant recipients. International Urology and Nephrology. 2025 February. doi: 10.1007/s11255-025-04399-0.
David J. Taber, Elisa J. Gordon, Larissa Myaskovsky, Michelle T. Jesse, John Devin Peipert, Roshan George, Marie Chisholm-Burns, William E. Fitzsimmons, John S. Gill. Therapeutic needs in solid organ transplant recipients: The American Society of Transplantation patient survey. American Journal of Transplantation. 2025 July. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.07.2474.
Shipra R. Bethi, David J. Taber, Erika Andrade, Zaid M. Mesmar, Isabel Calimlim, Courtney E. Harris. Disparities in Access to Valganciclovir Cytomegalovirus Prophylaxis in High‐Risk African American Kidney Transplant Patients. Transplant Infectious Disease. 2025 March. doi: 10.1111/tid.14416.
Jonathan S. Bromberg, Daniel C. Brennan, David J. Taber, Matthew Cooper, Sanjiv Anand, Enver Akalin, Edmund Huang, Jeffrey A. Klein, Renata Glehn-Ponsirenas, Jeffrey Rogers, Peale Chuang, Ashish S. Kothari, Ling Shen, Robert N. Woodward, Dhiren Kumar, David Wojciechowski, Didier Mandelbrot, Nadiesda Costa, Lihong Bu, Matthew R. Weir. Donor-derived cell-free DNA significantly improves rejection yield in kidney transplant biopsies. American Journal of Transplantation. 2025 August. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.07.2484.
Christine S. Wolesensky, Neha Patel, Santosh Nagaraju, Steve Hanish, Morgan Roberts, Margaret Dorsett, David J. Taber. Improved LCP Tacrolimus Dosing and Monitoring Outcomes With a Genotype‐Based Dosing Algorithm Versus Weight Based Dosing. Clinical Transplantation. 2025 November. doi: 10.1111/ctr.70363.
Wolesensky CS, Patel N, Nagaraju S, Hanish S, Roberts M, Dorsett M, Taber DJ. Improved LCP Tacrolimus XR Dosing and Monitoring Outcomes With a Genotype-Based Dosing Algorithm Versus Weight Based Dosing. Clin Transplant. 2025 Nov;39(11):e70363. doi: 10.1111/ctr.70363. PubMed PMID: 41169179.
Taber DJ, Gordon EJ, Myaskovsky L, Jesse MT, Peipert JD, George R, Chisholm-Burns M, Fitzsimmons WE, Gill JS. Therapeutic needs in solid organ transplant recipients: The American Society of Transplantation patient survey. Am J Transplant. 2025 Dec;25(12):2565-2577. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.07.2474. Epub 2025 Jul 29. PubMed PMID: 40744428.
Karim Soliman, Isabel K. Calimlim, Amy Perry, Erika Andrade, Morgan Overstreet, Neha Patel, Felicia Bartlett, David J. Taber. Evolving trends in immunosuppression use and cytomegalovirus infection risk over the past decade in kidney transplantation. Transplant Infectious Disease. 2024 October. doi: 10.1111/tid.14318.
Mary Moss Chandran, Elizabeth Cohen, Christina Teeter Doligalski, Lyndsey J. Bowman, Tiffany E. Kaiser, David J. Taber. The measure of impact: Proposal of quality metrics for solid organ transplant pharmacy practice. American Journal of Transplantation. 2024 February. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.10.027.
Abbie D. Leino, Tiffany E. Kaiser, Karen Khalil, Holly Mansell, David J. Taber. Electronic health record-enabled routine assessment of medication adherence after solid organ transplantation: the time is now. American Journal of Transplantation. 2024 May. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.01.023.
Overstreet M, Culpepper H, DeHoff D, Gebregziabher M, Posadas Salas MA, Su Z, Chandler J, Bartlett F, Dunton P, Carcella T, Taber D. Multifaceted Intervention to Improve Graft Outcome Disparities in African American Kidney Transplants (MITIGAAT Study): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Oct 10;13:e57784. doi: 10.2196/57784. PubMed PMID: 39388231; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11502971.
Soliman K, Calimlim IK, Perry A, Andrade E, Overstreet M, Patel N, Bartlett F, Taber DJ. Evolving trends in immunosuppression use and cytomegalovirus infection risk over the past decade in kidney transplantation. Transpl Infect Dis. 2024 Oct;26(5):e14318. doi: 10.1111/tid.14318. Epub 2024 Jun 30. PubMed PMID: 38946207.
Sundaram S, Mukherjee R, Wright AS, Taber DJ, Visserman J, Tanious A. Benefits of early vascular provider involvement in wound care center management of patients with underlying arterial disease. J Vasc Surg. 2024 Oct;80(4):1239-1250.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2024.05.011. Epub 2024 Jun 20. PubMed PMID: 38904578.
Medunjanin D, Wolf BJ, Pisoni R, Taber DJ, Pearce JL, Hunt KJ. Acute Kidney Injury and Subsequent Kidney Failure With Replacement Therapy Incidence in Older Adults With Advanced CKD: A Cohort Study of US Veterans. Kidney Med. 2024 Jun;6(6):100825. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100825. eCollection 2024 Jun. PubMed PMID: 38770088; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11103477.
Wiseman A, Alhamad T, Alloway RR, Concepcion BP, Cooper M, Formica R, Klein CL, Kumar V, Leca N, Shihab F, Taber DJ, Mulnick S, Bushnell DM, Hadi M, Bunnapradist S. Use of LCP-Tacrolimus (LCPT) in Kidney Transplantation: A Delphi Consensus Survey of Expert Clinicians. Ann Transplant. 2024 Mar 12;29:e943498. doi: 10.12659/AOT.943498. PubMed PMID: 38526543; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10944009.
Leino AD, Kaiser TE, Khalil K, Mansell H, Taber DJ. Electronic health record-enabled routine assessment of medication adherence after solid organ transplantation: the time is now. Am J Transplant. 2024 May;24(5):711-715. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.01.023. Epub 2024 Jan 22. PubMed PMID: 38266711; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11846656.
David J. Taber, Sherry Milfred-LaForest, Kelsey Rife, Rebecca Felkner, Danielle Cooney, Nicholas Super, Samantha McClelland, Casey Buchanan. A Randomized Control Trial Testing a Medication Safety Dashboard in Veteran Transplant Recipients. Progress in Transplantation. 2023 June. doi: 10.1177/15269248231164177.
David J. Taber, Elisa J. Gordon, Michelle T. Jesse, Larissa Myaskovsky, John Devin Peipert, Allison Jaure, Roshan George, William Fitzsimmons. A viewpoint describing the American Society of Transplantation rationale to conduct a comprehensive patient survey assessing unmet immunosuppressive therapy needs. Clinical Transplantation. 2023 March. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14876.
Alicia Beth Lichvar, Mary Moss Chandran, Elizabeth A. Cohen, Barrett R. Crowther, Christina Teeter Doligalski, Amanda J. Condon Martinez, Lisa M.M. Potter, David J. Taber, Rita R. Alloway. The expanded role of the transplant pharmacist: A 10-year follow-up. American Journal of Transplantation. 2023 September. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.04.032.
David J. Taber, Ralph C. Ward, Casey H. Buchanan, Robert Neal Axon, Sherry Milfred-LaForest, Kelsey Rife, Rebecca Felkner, Danielle Cooney, Nicholas Super, Samantha McClelland, Domenica McKenna, Elizabeth Santa, Mulugeta Gebregziabher. Results of a multicenter cluster-randomized controlled clinical trial testing the effectiveness of a bioinformatics-enabled pharmacist intervention in transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 2023 December. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.08.004.
Chandran MM, Cohen E, Doligalski CT, Bowman LJ, Kaiser TE, Taber DJ. The measure of impact: Proposal of quality metrics for solid organ transplant pharmacy practice. Am J Transplant. 2024 Feb;24(2):164-176. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.10.027. Epub 2023 Nov 2. PubMed PMID: 37923084.
McCauley JL, Ward RC, Taber DJ, Basco WT, Gebregziabher M, Reitman C, Moran WP, Cina RA, Lockett MA, Ball SJ. Surgical prescription opioid trajectories among state Medicaid enrollees. J Opioid Manag. 2023 Nov-Dec;19(6):465-488. doi: 10.5055/jom.0832. PubMed PMID: 38189189.
Perry A, Anand Mohan P, Bodker K, Elshennawy M, Taber DJ, Herberth J, Soliman K. Collaborative peri-transplant management of volume status, hypertension, and immunosuppression: enhancing kidney transplants for better outcomes. Ren Fail. 2023;45(2):2271559. doi: 10.1080/0886022X.2023.2271559. Epub 2023 Oct 27. PubMed PMID: 37885261; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11001351.
Weeda ER, Ward R, Gebregziabher M, Axon RN, Taber DJ. Medication Safety Events After Acute Myocardial Infarction Among Veterans Treated at VA Versus Non-VA Hospitals. Med Care. 2024 Feb 1;62(2):72-78. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001935. Epub 2023 Oct 4. PubMed PMID: 37796198.
Bhavsar NA, Patzer RE, Taber DJ, Ross-Driscoll K, Deierhoi Reed R, Caicedo-Ramirez JC, Gordon EJ, Matsouaka RA, Rogers U, Webster W, Adams A, Kirk AD, McElroy LM. Defining the Need for Causal Inference to Understand the Impact of Social Determinants of Health: A Primer on Behalf of the Consortium for the Holistic Assessment of Risk in Transplantation (CHART). Ann Surg Open. 2023 Dec;4(3):e337. doi: 10.1097/AS9.0000000000000337. eCollection 2023 Dec. PubMed PMID: 38144885; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10735082.
Taber DJ, Ward RC, Buchanan CH, Axon RN, Milfred-LaForest S, Rife K, Felkner R, Cooney D, Super N, McClelland S, McKenna D, Santa E, Gebregziabher M. Results of a multicenter cluster-randomized controlled clinical trial testing the effectiveness of a bioinformatics-enabled pharmacist intervention in transplant recipients. Am J Transplant. 2023 Dec;23(12):1939-1948. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.08.004. Epub 2023 Aug 9. PubMed PMID: 37562577; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11866728.
Lichvar AB, Chandran MM, Cohen EA, Crowther BR, Doligalski CT, Condon Martinez AJ, Potter LMM, Taber DJ, Alloway RR. The expanded role of the transplant pharmacist: A 10-year follow-up. Am J Transplant. 2023 Sep;23(9):1375-1387. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.04.032. Epub 2023 May 4. PubMed PMID: 37146942; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11851232.
Weeda ER, Ward R, Gebregziabher M, Axon RN, Taber DJ. Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Severe Hypoglycemia Associated with Sulfonylurea Use for Type 2 Diabetes among Veterans. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Jun;11(3):1427-1433. doi: 10.1007/s40615-023-01619-0. Epub 2023 May 2. PubMed PMID: 37129787; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10620099.
Weeda ER, Ward R, Gebregziabher M, Chandler O, Strychalski ML, Axon RN, Taber DJ. Sulfonylureas as second line therapy for type 2 diabetes among veterans: Results from a National Longitudinal Cohort Study. Prim Care Diabetes. 2023 Aug;17(4):386-391. doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2023.04.006. Epub 2023 Apr 28. PubMed PMID: 37121788.
Taber DJ, Milfred-LaForest S, Rife K, Felkner R, Cooney D, Super N, McClelland S, Buchanan C. A Randomized Control Trial Testing a Medication Safety Dashboard in Veteran Transplant Recipients. Prog Transplant. 2023 Jun;33(2):121-129. doi: 10.1177/15269248231164177. Epub 2023 Apr 11. PubMed PMID: 37042050; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11869121.
Ballou C, Barton F, Payne EH, Berney T, Villard J, Meier RPH, Baidal D, Alejandro R, Robien M, Eggerman TL, Kamoun M, Muller YD. Matching for HLA-DR excluding diabetogenic HLA-DR3 and HLA-DR4 predicts insulin independence after pancreatic islet transplantation. Front Immunol. 2023;14:1110544. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1110544. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 37026004; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10070978.
Taber DJ, Su Z, Gebregziabher M, Mauldin PD, Morinelli TA, Mahmood AO, Magwood GS, Casey MJ, Scalea JR, Kavarana SM, Baliga PK, Rodrigue JR, DuBay DA. Multilevel Intervention to Improve Racial Equity in Access to Kidney Transplant. J Am Coll Surg. 2023 Apr 1;236(4):721-727. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000542. Epub 2023 Mar 15. PubMed PMID: 36728400.
Taber DJ, Bartlett F, Patel N, Sprague T, Patel S, Newman J, Andrade E, Rao N, Salas MAP, Casey M, Dubay D, Rohan V. Impact of converting adult kidney transplant recipients with high tacrolimus variability from twice daily immediate release tacrolimus to once daily LCP-Tacrolimus. Clin Transplant. 2023 May;37(5):e14941. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14941. Epub 2023 Feb 27. PubMed PMID: 36809653.
Rao N, Carcella T, Patel N, Bartlett F, Posadas MA, Casey M, Dubay DA, Taber DJ. Impact of CYP3A5 genotype on de-novo LCP tacrolimus dosing and monitoring in kidney transplantation. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2023 Apr 1;33(3):59-65. doi: 10.1097/FPC.0000000000000494. Epub 2023 Feb 17. PubMed PMID: 36877088.
Ralph Ward, David Taber, Haley Gonzales, Mulugeta Gebregziabher, William Basco, Jenna McCauley, Patrick Mauldin, Sarah Ball. Risk factors and trajectories of opioid use following total knee replacement. Knee Surgery & Related Research. 2022 December. doi: 10.1186/s43019-022-00148-0.
Lídia Einsfeld, Laura Caroline Tavares Hastenteufel, David Taber, Nadine Clausell, Livia Adams Goldraich. Challenges for expansion of thoracic transplant clinical pharmacy in a developing country: comparison with U.S. accredited centres and call for action. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 2022 May. doi: 10.1111/jcpt.13577.
Taber DJ, Gordon EJ, Jesse MT, Myaskovsky L, Peipert JD, Jaure A, George R, Fitzsimmons W. A viewpoint describing the American Society of Transplantation rationale to conduct a comprehensive patient survey assessing unmet immunosuppressive therapy needs. Clin Transplant. 2023 Mar;37(3):e14876. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14876. Epub 2022 Dec 13. PubMed PMID: 36465024.
Reitman CA, Ward R, Taber DJ, Moran WP, McCauley J, Basco WT Jr, Gebregziabher M, Lockett M, Ball SJ. Opioid Use Patterns in a Statewide Adult Medicaid Population Undergoing Elective Lumbar Spine Surgery. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2023 Feb 1;48(3):203-212. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000004503. Epub 2022 Oct 4. PubMed PMID: 36206371; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9825641.
Lockett MA, Ward RC, McCauley JL, Taber DJ, Gebregziabher M, Cina RA, Basco WT Jr, Mauldin PD, Ball SJ. New chronic opioid use in Medicaid patients following cholecystectomy. Surg Open Sci. 2022 Jul;9:101-108. doi: 10.1016/j.sopen.2022.05.009. eCollection 2022 Jul. PubMed PMID: 35755164; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9218552.
Cina RA, Ward RC, Basco WT, Taber DJ, Gebregziabher M, McCauley JL, Lockett MA, Moran WP, Mauldin PD, Ball SJ. Incidence and patterns of persistent opioid use in children following appendectomy. J Pediatr Surg. 2022 Dec;57(12):912-919. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2022.04.019. Epub 2022 May 2. PubMed PMID: 35688690.
Curran T, Zhang J, Gebregziabher M, Taber DJ, Marsden JE, Booth A, Magwood GS, Mauldin PD, Baliga PK, Lockett MA. Surgical Outcomes Improvement and Health Inequity in a Regional Quality Collaborative. J Am Coll Surg. 2022 Apr 1;234(4):607-614. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000084. PubMed PMID: 35290280.
Rohan VS, Pilch N, McGillicuddy J, White J, Lin A, Dubay D, Taber DJ, Baliga PK. Early Assessment of National Kidney Allocation Policy Change. J Am Coll Surg. 2022 Apr 1;234(4):565-570. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000096. PubMed PMID: 35290276.
Fleming JN, Pollock MD, Taber DJ, McGillicuddy JW, Diamantidis CJ, Docherty SL, Chambers ET. Review and Evaluation of mHealth Apps in Solid Organ Transplantation: Past, Present, and Future. Transplant Direct. 2022 Mar;8(3):e1298. doi: 10.1097/TXD.0000000000001298. eCollection 2022 Mar. Review. PubMed PMID: 35368987; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8966961.
William T. Basco, Jr., Ralph C. Ward, David J. Taber, Kit N. Simpson, Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Robert A. Cina, Jenna L. McCauley, Mark A. Lockett, William P. Moran, Patrick D. Mauldin, Sarah J. Ball. Patterns of dispensed opioids after tonsillectomy in children and adolescents in South Carolina, United States, 2010–2017. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 2021 April. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2021.110636.
Samir J. Patel, Brooke A. Hofmeyer, Cody A. Moore, Jillian L. Descourouez, Duc T. Nguyen, Edward A. Graviss, David J. Taber. Medication nonadherence monitoring and management in adult kidney transplantation: A survey of practices and perceptions at US‐based transplant programs. JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2021 September. doi: 10.1002/jac5.1477.
Bailey Wise, Lytani Z. Wilson, David J. Taber, Nicole A. Pilch, Vinayak Rohan, James N. Fleming. The impact of pretransplant opioid exposure on healthcare utilization and costs in kidney transplant. Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. 2021 January. doi: 10.1002/phar.2479.
David J. Taber, James N. Fleming, Zemin Su, Patrick Mauldin, John W McGillicuddy, Aurora Posadas, Mulugeta Gebregziabher. Significant hospitalization cost savings to the payer with a pharmacist-led mobile health intervention to improve medication safety in kidney transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 2021 October. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16737.
Nicole A. Pilch, Lyndsey J. Bowman, David J. Taber. Immunosuppression trends in solid organ transplantation: The future of individualization, monitoring, and management. Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. 2021 January. doi: 10.1002/phar.2481.
Alison E Keys, Nicole A. Pilch, Caroline Perez, Neha Patel, Holly Meadows, James N. Fleming, David J. Taber. Patient‐reported medication adherence and tolerability: Results of a prospective observational study. JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2021 March. doi: 10.1002/jac5.1365.
Zana Elmaasarani, Eric Schumann, David J. Taber. Transplant clinical pharmacy services improve cardiovascular risk factor management and control in Veteran organ transplant recipients. JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2021 March. doi: 10.1002/jac5.1387.
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