Word: segev
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Pairing came naturally to Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon, and his wife Sommer Gentry, a mathematician. After meeting in 1999 at a swing-dance competition in Stamford, Conn., the couple became dance partners and went on to win British lindy-hop competitions before getting hitched in 2003. Last year the duo partnered to devise a system that could save hundreds of lives a year by more efficiently matching kidney donors with the 62,000-plus Americans waiting for a transplant...
...willing to donate a kidney, incompatible blood types or antibodies often make the transplants impossible. As a result, most patients wait three to seven years for a kidney from a cadaver--which lasts only half as long as an organ from a live donor. To help solve this problem, Segev and Gentry devised a way to improve kidney-paired donation, which involves matching a patient who has a willing but incompatible donor with a donor-patient pair who have the same dilemma. In a swap, the donor from the first pair gives a kidney to the patient in the second...
While paired donation is growing (around 25 hospitals, including Johns Hopkins, where Segev works, now use it), fewer than 100 matches have been made since 2001, in part because no national program has been put into place. That means the number of organs actually donated is less than the number being offered. "The matching programs that exist are not efficient," says Segev, whose optimized matching system, developed with Gentry, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in April. Based on an algorithm created by the Canadian mathematician Jack Edmonds in 1965, the system improves paired donation...
...April, Holt/Metropolitan will publish "Elvis in Jerusalem: Post Zionism and the Americanization of Israel" by Tom Segev. PW says Mazel Tov, giving the book a starred review. "Segev presents a startling and necessary view of contemporary Israel: it is a place so Americanized that the old Zionist collective identity has been replaced by individualism and consumerism; it is a place of ethnic and religious turmoil where traditional Israeli identity has become painfully fractured...Zionism has been a success, Segev argues, and its time is past. But, he admits sadly, 'Palestinian terrorism seems to push Israelis back into the Zionist womb...