ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2023
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Xingxing Shelley Cheng, MD, MS is a practicing transplant nephrologist and a clinical investigator with an expertise in decision science. She has trained at diverse institutions including Washington University in St. Louis, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Stanford University School of Medicine, where she obtained a Masters in Health Services Research.
Her overarching research goal is to make better decisions based on the existing technology and state of knowledge. She is investigating decision-making at all levels of health care:
- As a society and as government agencies, how do we create payment structures and transplant policies to maximize benefit to all patients with kidney diseases?
- As a transplant institution, how do we create institution-level policies and programs to deliver quality care to our patients?
- As a practicing physician, how do we empower our patients to make the best decisions for their own health based on available information?
Her current research is in the following areas:
- the costs, effectiveness, and implementation of transplanted-related care in the run-up to kidney transplantation;
- ethics and policies of in multi-organ transplantation.
She is funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the American Heart Association. She is an active member of the American Society of Transplantation, American Society of Nephrology, and American Heart Association (Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease Council). She is serving (representative of the American Society of Transplantation) on the National Living Donor Assistance Center Advisory Group.