- Kidney transplant surgery
- Kidney-pancreas dual transplant surgery
- Newly transplant
- Pancreas transplant surgery
- Renal transitional care
Roy D. Bloom, MD
About me
- Medical Director, Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: University of the Witwatersrand University Medical School
- Residency: Johannesburg General Hospital (Charlotte Maxeke)
- Residency: Albert Einstein Medical Center
- Fellowship: Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center - Chestnut Hill
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
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Insurance accepted
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Amerihealth of NJ Core
- Amerihealth of NJ Enhanced
- Amerihealth of NJ HMO
- Amerihealth of NJ Local Value
- Amerihealth of NJ POS
- Amerihealth of NJ PPO
- Amerihealth of NJ Regional Preferred
- Amerihealth of NJ Secure
- Amerihealth of NJ Ultimate (PPO)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Nephrology, 1994
- American Society of Nephrology, National
- American Society of Transplantation (AST), National
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Local
- International Society of Nephrology, International
- Penn Kidney Transplant Program
- Penn Pancreas Transplant Program
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Tandukar S, Potluri V, Abt P, Kaplan DE, Bittermann T, Besharatian B, Hoteit MA, Levine M, Thomasson A, Hryzak S, Murali A, Thapaliya S, Ranganna K, Bloom RD, Dunn TB, Lim MA Outcomes of simultaneous liver-kidney transplant and kidney after liver transplant using the safety net criteria – a single center experience , Transplant Direct, 12(5): 2026
Valenzuela NM, Lan J, Hitchman KMK, Amstutz U, Bloom RD, Levine DJ, Mengel M, Mannon RB. 2025 Report of the Sensitization in Transplantation: Assessment of Risk Working Group on donor-derived cell-free DNA: Establishing analytical validity as the basis for appropriate and effective clinical utilization. , Am J Transplant, 26(1): 2026,20-31
Potluri VS, Rubin J, Zee J, Ratcliffe SJ, Harhay MO, Abt PL, Vail EA, Parikh CR, Bloom RD, Gasparini A, Crowther M, Goldberg DS, Reese PP Assessing Deceased-Donor Kidneys Through Posttransplant Survival Prediction Algorithms , Am J Kidney Dis, 87(1): 2026,18-30
Anand PM, Singh N, Gupta G, Doshi M, Tanriover B, Adey D, Lentine KL, Niederhaus S, Parsons RF, Wiseman A, Cooper M, Singer G, Dadhania D, Bloom RD. Transition of Care of Kidney Recipients from Transplant Centers to Referring Nephrologists: Report From the American Society of Transplantation Controversies Conference. , Am J Kidney Dis., 86(5): 2025
Tandukar S, Wu Q, Chandrashekar S, Shah D, Chiang C, Couch K, Trofe J, Sonnenberg EM, Abt P, Lim MA, Potluri V, Bloom R. Long-Term Outcomes of BK Viremia in Kidney Transplant Recipients , Clin Transplant, 39(10): 2025
Kobashigawa J, Levitsky J, Singh N, Khush K, Pinney S, Aby E, Afzal A, Adey D, Bhalla A, Doshi M, Farouk S, Fox A, Hall S, Kittleson M, King L, Kuo A, Levine D, Manla Y, Modaresi Esfeh J, Mufti A, Anand PM, Nurok M, Norvell JP, Parikh N, Pillai A, Pradhan F, Ramsey A, Samaniego-Picota M, Poojary-Hohman I, Samra M, Sawinski D, Schlendorf K, Sweet S, Tanriover B, Virmani S, Bloom RD. Recommendations to overcome barriers to transplant fellowship training: A report from the American Society of Transplantation Fellows Task Force. , Am J Transplant., 25(8): 2025,1601-1613
Ariyamuthu VK, Cheng XS, Hippen B, Bloom RD, Acharya D, Araj F, Gungor AB, Alhamad T, Singh N, Anand PM, Gupta G, Akalin E, Molnar MZ, Mete M, Ayvaci MUS, Doshi M, Tanriover B. "The Final Rule in a Bind: What We Are Learning From Suboptimal Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Outcomes and Potential Solutions to the Problem": Erratum , Transplantation. , 109(8): 2025
Klötzer KA, Abedini A, Li S, Balzer MS, Liang X, Levinsohn J, Ha E, Dumoulin B, Hogan JJ, Quinn G, Bloom RD, Schuller M, Eller K, Halmos B, Zhang NR, Susztak K. Analysis of individual patient pathway coordination in a cross-species single-cell kidney atlas. , Nat Genet., 57(8): 2025,1922-1934
Ariyamuthu VK, Cheng XS, Hippen B, Bloom RD, Acharya D, Araj F, Gungor AB, Alhamad T, Singh N, Anand PM, Gupta G, Akalin E, Molnar MZ, Mete M, Ayvaci M, Doshi M, Tanriover B. The Final Rule in a Bind: What We are Learning from Suboptimal Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Outcomes and Potential Solutions to the Problem , Transplantation, 109(6): 2025,e317-e325.
Seif N, Bloom RD Using Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Kidney Transplant Patients: This Jury Needs More Evidence , Kidney Int, 107(5): 2025,796-799