Myaskovsky L, Leyva Y, Puttarajapa C, Kalaria A, Ng YH, Vélez-Bermúdez M, Zhu Y, Bryce C, Croswell EJ, Wesselman H, Kendall K, Chang CC, Boulware LE, Tevar A, Dew MA. Kidney Transplant Fast Track and likelihood of waitlisting and transplant. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2025;185(5):499-509. PMID: 40063052; PMCID: PMC11894542; DOI:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0043
Wesselman H, Ford CG, Leyva Y, Li X, Chang CH, Dew MA, Kendall KL, Croswell EJ, Pleis JR, Ng YH, Unruh ML, Shapiro R, Myaskovsky L. Social determinants of health and race disparities in kidney transplant. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2021; 16(2) 262-274. PMID: 33509963; PMCID: PMC7863655.
Dew MA, Posluszny DM, DiMartini AF, Myaskovsky L, Steel JL, DeVito Dabbs AJ. Posttransplant medical adherence: What have we learned and can we do better?Current Transplantation Reports: Topical Collection on Kidney Transplantation. 2018; 5(2): 174-188. PMID: 30416933; PMCID: PMC6224171; DOI: 10.1007/s40472-018-0195-8.
Chong K, Myaskovsky L, Unruh ML. A timely evaluation of the psychometric properties of the KDQOL-36. [Editorial of Psychometric properties of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life 36-item Short-form Survey (KDQOL-36) in the United States.] American Journal of Kidney Disease. 2018; 71(4):449-451. PMID: 29579415; DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2017.10.028.
Myaskovsky L, Gao S, Hausmann LRM, Bornemann K, Burkitt KH, Switzer GE, Fine MJ, Phillips S, Gater D, Spungen A, Worobey L, Boninger M. Quality and equity in wheelchairs used by Veterans. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2017; 98(3): 442-449. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.09.116 PMID: 27713075; PMCID: PMC6141307.
Vélez-Bermúdez M, Myaskovsky L, DiMartini AF, Steel JL, Dew MA. Post-transplant psychosocial and mental health care of the renal recipient. In: Sher Y, Maldonado J, eds. Psychosocial Care of End-Stage Organ Disease and Transplant Patients (2nd Edition). Springer Publishing (in press)
Ford CG, Unruh ML, Myaskovsky L. Measuring and improving quality of life. In Cukor D, Cohen S, Kimmel PL, eds. Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Kidney Disease. Elsevier; 2020: 499-514.
Dew MA, Myaskovsky L, Steel JL, DiMartini AF. Posttransplant psychosocial and mental health care of the renal recipient. In: Sher Y, Maldonado J, eds. Psychosocial Care of the End-Stage Disease and Transplant Patient: Springer Publishing; 2018: 119-136.
CHEK-D Lectures and Presentations
Invited Research Lectures
Myaskovsky L. “Enhancing Equity in Kidney Transplantation,” Department of Medicine Grand Rounds and Spark Lecture, presented at the University of Arizona School of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, October 2025.
Myaskovsky, L. “Center for Healthcare Equity in Kidney Disease (CHEK-D): Enhancing Equity Across the Kidney Care Continuum.” Invited presentation at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, January, 2025.
Myaskovsky, L. “Reducing Health Disparities by Addressing Structural Racism and Providing Culturally and Religiously Appropriate Transplant Care.” Invited panel moderator at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2024.
Myaskovsky, L. “Enhancing Equity in Kidney Transplantation.” Invited lecture at the Annual Medical Directors Meeting of Dialysis Clinic Inc. (DCI), Albuquerque, NM, April, 2024.
Myaskovsky, L. “Enhancing Equity in Kidney Transplantation for Historically Marginalized and Medically Underserved Populations.” Health Services Research Talk Series, Center for Research on Health Care (CRHC), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March, 2024.
Myaskovsky, L. “History and Overview of Health and Healthcare Equity Research.” Invited speaker at the annual meeting of the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Infrastructure Network, Las Vegas, NV, January, 2024.
Myaskovsky, L. “History and Overview of Health and Healthcare Equity Research.” Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) West Regional Workshop, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, NV, October, 2023.
Myaskovsky, L. “Advancing Equity Across the Kidney Care Continuum.” Nephrology Division Grand Rounds presented at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, May, 2023.
Myaskovsky, L. “Native American Kidney Health Equity.” Invited speaker in scientific session entitled, “Achieving Health Equity in Kidney Care,” at the KidneyCON Virtual Annual Meeting, April, 2022 [virtual presentation due to COVID pandemic].
Myaskovsky, L. “Indigenous Perspective: Breaking Down the Barriers to Research Participation.” Invited speaker in scientific session entitled, “Beyond the Head of the Table: Uncovering the Power of the Patient Voice,” at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, November, 2021 [virtual presentation due to COVID pandemic].
Myaskovsky, L. “Enhancing Equity in Kidney Transplantation and Kidney Health Services.” Nephrology Division Grand Rounds presented at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October, 2021 [virtual presentation due to COVID pandemic].
Myaskovsky, L. “Enhancing Equity in Kidney Transplantation.” Nephrology Division Grand Rounds presented at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, June, 2021 [virtual presentation due to COVID pandemic].
Myaskovsky, L. “Disparities in access to transplantation.” Invited speaker for the American Society of Transplantation’s Timely Topics in Transplantation webinar, November, 2020.
Myaskovsky, L. “Overcoming geographic challenges to transplantation.” Invited speaker in scientific session entitled, “Rural Nephrology: Obstacles to Care and Solutions,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, San Diego, CA, October, 2018.
Myaskovsky, L. “Unexpected race and ethnicity differences in the U.S. National Veterans Affairs kidney transplant program.” Invited research presentation at the New Mexico VA Healthcare System, Albuquerque, NM, June, 2018.
Presentations
Leyva Y, Shahbaz N, Teixeira JP, Zhu Y, Berry AD, Barrantes F, Singh P, Myaskovsky L. “Kidney transplant outcomes among all patients transplanted in New Mexico (1996-2022).” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, June, 2026.
Ng YH, Vélez-Bermúdez M, Leyva Y, Puttarajappa C, Kalaria A, Zhu Y, Boulware LE, Unruh M, Tevar A, Dew MA, Myaskovsky L. “Association of neighborhood-based socioeconomic status with kidney transplant waitlisting and transplantation.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, June, 2026.
Myaskovsky L, Zhu Y, Lacher R, Suryanarayana A, Gard C, Crisanti A. “Enhancing “ease of practice” in research: Physician and allied healthcare retention through translational workforce development efforts in New Mexico.” Oral presentation at the CTSA Translation Impacts Working Group’s Translational Impact Summit, March, 2026.
Myaskovsky L. “Making it work: Implementing kidney transplant interventions to improve access for indigenous people in the US Southwest,” invited research presentation as part of session entitled, “Global perspective for improving organ donation and transplantation for indigenous peoples.” Panel presented at the World Transplant Congress, San Francisco, CA, August, 2025.
Myaskovsky L. “Comparisons of findings across kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, intestine, and VCA recipients,” invited talk as part of session entitled, “Beyond just survival: Addressing transplant recipients’ perspective of unmet immunosuppressant needs: The AST’s national survey of 10,000 transplant recipients.” Panel presented at the World Transplant Congress, San Francisco, CA, August, 2025.
Taber D, Jesse M, Peipert J, Myaskovsky L, George R, Gordon E, Chisholm-Burns M, Gill J. “Burdens of therapy: AST’s national patient survey of unmet immunosuppressant needs.” Paper presented at the World Transplant Congress, San Francisco, CA, August, 2025.
Adler-Jaffe S, Vélez-Bermudez M, Loor J, Leyva Y, Sok N, Zhu Y, Singh PP, Unruh M, Goff S, Erickson S, Sehgal A, Bryce C, Myaskovsky L. “Enhancing Kidney Transplant Evaluation: Barriers and Facilitators to Conducting the Access to Kidney Transplant in Minority Populations (AKT-MP) Trial.” Poster presented at the World Transplant Congress, San Francisco, CA, August, 2025.
Velez-Bermudez M, Leyva Y, Puttarajappa C, Kalaria A, Zhu Y, Ng YH, Boulware LE, Tevar A, Dew MA, Myaskovsky L. "Medical mistrust predicts lower likelihood of waitlisting in kidney transplant candidates." Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), San Diego, CA, October, 2024.
Velez-Bermudez M, Rice C, Adler-Jaffe S, Leyva Y, Jimenez EY, Zhu Y, Singh PP, Argyropoulos C, Unruh ML, Myaskovsky L. “Determining the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-tailored lifestyle intervention to improve the health of Hispanic and Native American kidney transplantation recipients.” Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), San Diego, CA, October, 2024.
Krashin JW, Trujillo V, Rodriguez-Hernandez J, Diaz M, Villarreal A, Mandagaran A, Myaskovsky L, Willging C. “Rural-specific determinants of evidence-based miscarriage care.” Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Implementation Research Collaboration, Denver, CO, September, 2024.
Myaskovsky L, Kalaria A, Puttarajappa C, Ng YH, Leyva Y, Zhu Y, Velez-Bermudez M, Bryce C, Chang J, Boulware LE, Tevar A, Dew MA. “The Kidney Transplant Fast Track Intervention Reduced Time to Kidney Transplant Waitlisting.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2024.
Velez-Bermudez M, Rice C, Adler-Jaffe S, Leyva Y, Jimenez EY, Zhu Y, Singh PP, Argyropoulos C, Unruh ML, Myaskovsky L. “Determining the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-tailored lifestyle intervention to improve the health of Hispanic and Native American kidney transplantation recipients.” Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2024.
Vélez-Bermúdez M, Rishel-Brakey H, Myaskovsky L, Unruh ML, Singh PP, Pandhi N. “Experiences of ethnically diverse living kidney donors: A qualitative pilot study.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2024.
Myaskovsky L, Kalaria A, Puttarajappa C, Ng YH, Leyva Y, Zhu Y, Velez-Bermudez M, Bryce C, Chang J, Boulware LE, Tevar A, Dew MA. “The Kidney Transplant Fast Track (KTFT) Intervention Reduced Time to Kidney Transplant Waitlisting.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), Philadelphia, PA, November, 2023.
Loor JM, Leyva YL, Croswell EJ, Dew MA, Boulware LE, Myaskovsky L. "Experiencing discrimination reduced the effectiveness of the TALK intervention on kidney failure patients" Oral presentation presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), Philadelphia, PA, November, 2023.
Vélez-Bermúdez M, Leyva Y, Loor J, Dew MA, Zhu Y, Unruh ML, Boulware LE, Tevar AD, Myaskovsky L. “Healthcare system intervention changed negative perceptions of healthcare in kidney transplant candidates.” Rapid oral and poster presentation at the Top Trainee session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), Philadelphia, PA, November, 2023.
Vélez-Bermúdez M, Rishel-Brakey H, Myaskovsky L, Unruh ML, Singh PP, Pandhi N. “Experiences of ethnically diverse living kidney donors: A qualitative pilot study.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), Philadelphia, PA, November, 2023.
Vélez-Bermúdez M, Leyva Y, Loor J, Dew MA, Zhu Y, Unruh ML, Boulware LE, Tevar AD, Myaskovsky L. “Can patient perceptions of discrimination and mistrust in healthcare change with a patient-centered approach to kidney transplant evaluation?” Poster presented at the NIDDK NMRI West Region Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, October, 2023.
Vélez-Bermúdez M, Rishel-Brakey H, Myaskovsky L, Unruh ML, Singh PP, Pandhi N. “Experiences of ethnically diverse living kidney donors: A qualitative study.” Poster presented at the NIDDK NMRI West Region Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, October, 2023.
Vélez-Bermúdez M, Leyva Y, Loor JM, Dew MA, Zhu Y, Unruh ML, Boulware LE, Tevar AD, Myaskovsky L. “Undergoing an organizational-level intervention reduces perceived discrimination and medical mistrust among kidney transplant candidates.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, San Diego, CA, June, 2023.
Vélez-Bermúdez M, Adamowicz JL, Lutgendorf SK, Myaskovsky L, Fraer M, Christensen AJ. “Disparities in dialysis psychosocial outcomes among patients from well-resourced clinics.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, San Juan, PR, March, 2023.
Loor JM, Leyva YL, Croswell EJ, Dew MA, Boulware LE, Myaskovsky L. “Can an Education Only Intervention Promote LDKT?” Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, June 2022.
Kano M, Adler Jaffe S, Rieder S, Guest D, Burgess E, Hurwitz A, Rutledge T, Dayao Z, Warren B, Pandhi N, Myaskovsky L. “Opportunities and challenges for creating sexual and gender minority cancer health equity: Patient and caregiver perspectives from a qualitative pilot study.” Oral presentation at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO), Virtual, March, 2021.
Swift S, Wang S, Chang CCH, Pleis JL, Dew MA, Shapiro R, Unruh ML, Kendall K, Croswell EJ, Peipert JD, Myaskovsky L. Do Social Determinants of Health Predict Patient Reported Outcomes in Kidney Failure Patients Being Evaluated for Transplant? Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), Virtual Meeting, October 2020.
Ford CG, Kruger E, Leyva YL, Zhu Y, Croswell EJ, Kendall KL, Dew MA, Puttarajappa C, Unruh ML, Ng Y, Myaskovsky L. “Predictors of Kidney Transplant Evaluation Non-Attendance.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), Virtual Meeting, October 2020.
Ford CG, Leyva YL, Zhu Y, Croswell EJ, Kendall KL, Puttarajappa C, Dew MA, Unruh ML, Ng Y, Myaskovsky L. “Predictors of kidney transplant evaluation clinic attendance.” Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, CA, April 2020.
Ng YH, Litvinovich Y, Leyva Y, Ford CG, Zhu YL, Kendall K, Croswell EJ, Puttarajappa CM, Dew MA, Shapiro R, Unruh ML, Myaskovsky L. “Can social determinants of health pre-transplant predict adherence post-transplant?” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney Week, Washington DC, November 2019.
Gangwish D, Nellos T, Harford A, Ng YH, Myaskovsky L, Leyva Y, Riley JM. Renal transplant study on the effect of time from initial evaluation to wait-listing on renal allograft outcomes. Poster presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the South Central Section of the American Urological Association, Colorado Springs, CO, September 2019.
Gangwish D, Nellos T, Harford A, Ng YH, Myaskovsky L, Leyva Y, Riley JM. Renal transplant study on the effect of time from initial evaluation to wait-listing on renal allograft outcomes. Poster presented at the University of New Mexico Annual Surgery Research Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, July 2019.
DeBlasio RN, Myaskovsky L, Kendall KL, DiMartini AF, Switzer GE, Posluszny DM, Puttarajappa C, Tevar AD, Hariharan S, Shapiro R, Dew MA. Race and substance use as predictors of candidacy for kidney transplantation. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, June 2019.
Wesselman H, Wang S, Chang C-C, Pleis JR, Kendall KL, Croswell EJ, Dew MA, Unruh M, Shapiro R, Myaskovsky L. Social determinants of quality of life in patients evaluated for kidney transplant. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, June 2019.
DeBlasio RN, Myaskovsky L, Kendall KL, DiMartini AF, Switzer GE, Posluszny DM, Puttarajappa C, Shapiro R, Dew MA. Race and substance use as predictors of candidacy for kidney transplantation. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Indianapolis, IN, November 2018.
Wesselman H, Li X, Chang CH, Kendall KL, Pleis JR, Croswell EJ, Dew MA, Shapiro R, Myaskovsky L. Social determinants of quality of life in patients evaluated for kidney transplant. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, San Diego, CA, October 2018.
Kendall KL, Chang CH, Li X, Pleis JL, Croswell EJ, Dew MA, Langone A, Mittalhenkle A, Saha S, Adams-Flohr J, Ramkumar M, Thomas C, Myaskovsky L. Non-medical factors predict receipt and type of kidney transplant in Veterans. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Seattle, WA, June 2018.
Wesselman H, Li X, Chang CH, Kendall KL, Pleis JR, Croswell EJ, Dew MA, Shapiro R, Myaskovsky L. Non-medical factors predict receipt and type of kidney transplant. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, Seattle, WA, June 2018.
Myaskovsky L, Jesse M, Kuntz K, Leino A, Piepert JD, Russell C, Spivey C, Sulejmani N, and Dew MA. "Report from the AST Adherence Task Force: Real World Options for Promoting Adherence" Panel Discussion presented at the 39th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2018.
Ng Y, Pankratz VS, Bornemann KL, Croswell EJ, Pleis JR, Unruh ML, Shapiro R, Myaskovsky L. “Factors impacting racial disparity in kidney transplant wait-listing.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (Kidney Week), New Orleans, LA, November 2017.
Fyffe D, Worobey L, Myaskovsky L. “Demographic, cultural, psychosocial, and health factors associated with wheelchair outcomes in spinal cord injury.” Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Atlanta, GA, October 2017.
Ng Y, Pankratz VS, Bornemann KL, Croswell EJ, Pleis JR, Unruh ML, Shapiro R, Myaskovsky L. “Non-medical factors contributing to racial disparity in kidney transplant wait-listing.” Poster presented at the 17th Annual American Transplant Congress, Chicago, IL, May 2017.
Bornemann K, Croswell EJ, Abaye M, Bryce CL, Chang CH, Good D, Freehling C, Dew MA, Boulware LE, Tevar A, Myaskovsky L. Protocol of the KTFT-TALK Study to reduce racial disparities in kidney transplant evaluation and living donor kidney transplantation.” Poster presented at the 17th Annual American Transplant Congress, Chicago, IL, May 2017.
Myaskovsky L, Kuntz K, Jesse M, Peipert JD, Spivey C, Russell C, Dew MA. “Report from the AST Adherence Task Force: Real world options for promoting adherence.” Symposium presented at the 17th Annual American Transplant Congress, Chicago, IL, May 2017.
