Ronald Fairbairn Parsons, MD
Transplant Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Transplant Institute - Kidney and Pancreas Transplant
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Associate Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Parsons is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

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, American Journal of Kidney Diseases , American Society of Transplantation: 2025


Parajuli S, Mandelbrot D, Stratta RJ, Kandaswamy R, Parsons RF, Singh N, Gruessner A, Kaufman DB, Odorico J. The Challenge of Minding the Glomerular Filtration Rate Gap Between Pancreas Transplant Alone and Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation: Stuck in the Middle , American Journal of Transplantation , 109(7): 2025,1062-1065


Parsons RF Risk Factors for Kidney Disease Progression in Pancreas Alone Recipients Obligate a Kidney Transplant Safety Net , Transplantation , 109(6): 2025,901-904


Fischer RMJ, Muñoz N, Ong O, L. Abt P, C. Gruessner A, F. Parsons R National Trends in Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Simultaneous Pancreas–Kidney Transplantation. , Clinical Transplantation: 2025


Anand PM, Woodside KJ, Singh N, Alhamad T, Bloom RD, Gupta G, Singer G, Doshi M, Dadhania DM, Tanriover B, Parsons RF, Wagner C, Xiao H, Lentine KL; Transition of Care of Stable Kidney Transplant Patients to Referring Nephrologists: A Survey of U.S. Transplant Program Staff. , Clinical Transplantation, 38(11): 2024


Singh N, Anand PM, Gupta G, Sawinski D, Fix O, Adey D, Akalin E, Zayas C, Dadhania D, Doshi M, Cibrik D, Gupta M, Parsons R, Leca N, Santos RD, Concepcion BP, Nishio Lucar AG, Ong S, Sridhar VS, Parajuli S, Zachariah M, Mehta S, Soliman K, Shawar S, Husain SA, Preczewski L, Friedewald J, Mohan S, Wiseman A, Samaniego M, Kumar V, Tanriover B, Bloom R. Should Transplant Nephrology Pursue Recognition from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)? , Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 19(8): 2024,1051-1060


Parsons RF, Lentine KL, Doshi M, Dunn TB, Forbes R, Fridell JA, Jesse MT, Pavlakis M, Sawinski D, Singh N, Axelrod DA, Cooper M Generating strategies for a national comeback in pancreas transplantation: A Delphi survey and US conference report. , American Journal of Transplantation: 2024,1473-1485


Singh N, Lentine KL, Fleetwood VA, Woodside KJ, Odorico J, Axelrod D, Alhamad T, Maher K, Xiao H, Fridell J, Kukla A, Pavlakis M, Shokouh-Amiri HM, Zibari G, Cooper M, Parsons RF. Indications, Techniques, and Barriers for Pancreas Transplant Biopsy: A Consensus Perspective from a Survey of US Centers. , Transplantation, 108(7): 2024,129-138


Nishio Lucar AG, Patel A, Mehta S, Yadav A, Doshi M, Urbanski MA, Concepcion BP, Singh N, Sanders ML, Basu A, Harding JL, Rossi A, Adebiyi OO, Samaniego-Picota M, Woodside KJ, Parsons RF. Expanding the access to kidney transplantation: Strategies for kidney transplant programs. , Clinical Transplantation: 2024


Drachenberg CB, Buettner-Herold M, Aguiar PV, Horsfield C, Mikhailov AV, Papadimitriou JC, Seshan SV, Perosa M, Boggi U, Uva P, Rickels M, Grzyb K, Arend L, Cuatrecasas M, Toniolo MF, Farris AB, Renaudin K, Zhang L, Roufousse C, Gruessner A, Gruessner R, Kandaswamy R, White S, Burke G, Cantarovich D, Parsons RF, Cooper M, Kudva YC, Kukla A, Haririan A, Parajuli S, Merino-Torres JF, Argente-Pla M, Meier R, Dunn T, Ugarte R, Rao JS, Vistoli F, Stratta R, Odorico J. Banff 2022 pancreas transplantation multidisciplinary report: Refinement of guidelines for T cell-mediated rejection, antibody-mediated rejection and islet pathology. Assessment of duodenal cuff biopsies and noninvasive diagnostic methods. , American Journal of Transplant, 3: 2024,362-379