- Kidney transplant surgery
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
My education and training
- Medical School: SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- 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)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
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.
Qualifications and experience
- Surgery, 2013
- American College of Surgeons, National
- American Medical Association, National
- American Society of Nephrology, National
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons, National
- American Society of Transplantation, National
- Association for Academic Surgery, National
- International Pancreas & Islet Transplant Association, International
- The Transplantation Society, National
- Penn Kidney Transplant Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
LEONBERG-YOO A, LEONBERG KE, ABU-GAZALA S, HRYZAK S, REDFIELD RR 3RD, PARSONS RF, AGARWAL AK Patient-reported Opioid use and Pain Management After Living Kidney Donation , Transplantation Direct, 12(6): 2026,E1954
ONG, OY, MUNOZ N, SCHAUBEL DE, JACKSON, KR, PARSONS RF, ABT PL, SONNENBERG EM. Do Prolonged Donor Warm Ischemic Times Correlate with Kidney Transplant Outcomes? The Largest Study of Donation After Circulatory Death Donors in the United States , American Journal of Transplantation: 2026
Singh, N, Parajuli S, Rao S, Alhamad T, Niederhaus S, Nieves F, Diab A, Stumpf M, Albritton M, Singh A, Pelletier R, Bongu A, Parsons RF, Stratta RJ. Hyperglycemia following pancreas transplantation: Rethinking graft function and metabolic control , American Journal of Transplantation : 2026
Parsons RF Age Stratification of Deceased Donors Suggests Transplantation Opportunities for Countries , Transplantation, 110(3): 2026,E530-E531
CIMENO A, BANSKOTA S, NADEEM SO, PARSONS RF Comparison of Multiple Frailty Scoring Metrics in Renal Transplant Candidates: A Large Single-center Cohort Study , TRANSPLANT DIRECT, 12(3): 2026,E1921
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