CV

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Education

• Ph.D in Health Policy (Decision Sciences), Stanford University, 2024
• MHS in Health Economics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2017
• BSBA in Business Economics & Finance (Investments), University of South Carolina, 2015

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Immunosuppression Considerations for Older Kidney Transplant Recipients

Cheungpasitporn, W., Lentine, K. L., Tan, J. C., Kaufmann, M., Caliskan, Y., Bunnapradist, S., ... & Axelrod, D. A. (2021). Immunosuppression considerations for older kidney transplant recipients. Current transplantation reports, 8(2), 100-110.

Racial Disparities in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation under the New Kidney Allocation System in the United States

Krissberg, J. R., Kaufmann, M. B., Gupta, A., Bendavid, E., Stedman, M., Cheng, X. S., ... & Chaudhuri, A. (2021). Racial disparities in pediatric kidney transplantation under the new kidney allocation system in the United States. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 16(12), 1862-1871.

Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation for Older Transplant Candidates: A New Microsimulation Model for Determining Risks and Benefits

Kaufmann, M. B., Tan, J. C., Chertow, G. M., Goldhaber-Fiebert, J. D. (2023). Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation for Older Transplant Candidates: A New Microsimulation Model for Determining Risks and Benefits. Medical Decision Making

A New Type 2 Diabetes Microsimulation Model to Estimate Long-term Health Outcomes, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness

Hoerger, T.J., Hilscher, R., Neuwahl, S., Kaufmann, M. B., Shao, H., Laxy, M., Cheng, Y.J., Benoit, S., Chen, H., Anderson, A. and Craven, T., Yang, W., Cintina,, I., Staimez., L., Zhang, P., the Look AHEAD Research Group. (2023). A New Type 2 Diabetes Microsimulation Model to Estimate Long-term Health Outcomes, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness. Value in Health

Working Papers

• Kaufmann, M.B. , Tan, J., Chertow, G., Goldhaber-Fiebert, J.D., Cost-Effectiveness of Policies to Increase Kidney Transplantation Rates Among Older Candidates.

Technical Reports

• Allaire, B., King, G., Kaufmann, M., Hilscher, R., Hoerger, T. (2018). Report on the Model Parameters and Algorithms for the CDC/RTI Microsimulation Model of Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Nutrition. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Honeycutt, A., Hutchinson, B., Kaufmann, M., Bates, L. (2017). Cost-Benefit Analysis of Kidney Dialysis Services in Tuvalu: Final Report. Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Talks

Cost-effectiveness of a “wild-card” patient designation policy in deceased donor kidney transplants

August 01, 2020

Conference Poster at 42nd annual conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Virtual

Risk Equations for Elderly Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes

June 01, 2021

Conference Poster at 27th annual AHRQ NRSA Trainees Research Conference, Virtual

Validation of Risk Equations for Older Kidney Transplant Recipients

August 01, 2021

Conference Poster at 43rd annual conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Virtual

Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation for Older Transplant Candidates – A New Model for Determining Risk/Benefit

June 01, 2022

Conference Poster at 28th annual AHRQ NRSA Trainees Research Conference, Virtual

Potential Impact of Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation Policies on Older Transplant Candidates: A Modeling Study

October 01, 2022

Conference Poster at 44th annual conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Seattle, WA, USA

Cost-Effectiveness of Kidney Transplant Allocation Policies on Older Deceased Donor Transplant Candidates

April 01, 2023

Conference Poster at 29th annual AHRQ NRSA Trainees Research Conference, Virtual

Building a race-specific model of Helicobacter pylori infections in the United States

June 28, 2023

Meeting Podium Talk & Poster at CISNET Midyear Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA

Building a race-specific model of Helicobacter pylori infections in the United States

October 24, 2023

Conference Poster at 45th Annual Conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Building a race-specific model of Helicobacter pylori infections in the United States

October 24, 2023

Conference Podium Presentation & Poster at 45th Annual Conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Modeling of Infectious Diseases for Public Health Decision Making

August 12, 2024

Virtual Talk at Minnesota Department of Health Summer Learning Session, Virtual

Audio Publications

• Kaufmann, M. Contributor. (2021) Racial Disparities in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation under the new Kidney Allocation System in the United States. CJASN Podcast. https://www.asn-online.org/media/podcast/CJASN/2021_12_07_CJN06740521.mp3

Teaching

Health Policy Summer Math Camp

HRP 208: Introduction to Concepts and Methods in Health Services and Policy Research II

HRP 252/MED 252/BIOMEDIN 251: Outcomes Analysis

HRP 392/BIOMEDIN 432: Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Health Care

HRP 201A/MED 215A: Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial I

HRP 201B/MED 215B: Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial II

HRP 201C/MED 215C: Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial III

Cost-Effectiveness and Decision Modeling using R

Honors and Awards

• National Research Service Award T32 Fellow, Agency for Health Research and Quality, 2019-Present
• 3 time Lee B. Lusted Prize Finalist (Top 10 student abstract in research category), Society for Medical Decision Making, 2021-2023
• Cooper Scholars Award (merit scholarship with annual value of $4,000 + tuition reduction to in-state rate), University of South Carolina, 2011-2015

Professional experience

• RTI International, Economist III, Public Health Economics Program: 2017-2019
  • Managed projects, designed and conducted simulation models, and conducted statistical analyses for projects that covered the following topics: diabetes, childhood pneumonia, and diarrhea, asthma, family planning, dialysis, oncology, nutrition, epidemic surveillance, and stroke care

Research Experience

• 2023-Present: Research Assistant
  • Stanford University
  • In Progress: Modeling of H. pylori in the United States.
  • Supervisor: Professor Fernando Alarid-Escudero
• 2016-2017: Research Assistant
  • Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Led a team of four other students in conducting a systematic review and building an economic model
  • Developed a Markov Model to simulate children with asthma through various health states
  • Supervisor: Professor William Padula

Skills

• Data Analysis: R, Stata
• Simulation/Decision Making: R, TreeAge, Python, Amua
• Visualization: Tableau
• Other Programming Languages: VBA