Sigrid Fry-Revere

Sigrid Fry-Revere, is a medical ethicist and lawyer who has worked on many issues in patient care ethics, but most recently has been working on the rights of living organ donors.  She has written four books, the most recent of which is The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran (2014) [1] which resulted in a TEDMED talk given at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in 2014. Her research in Iran also resulted in two academic articles published in 2018: "Coercion, dissatisfaction, and social stigma: an ethnographic study of compensated living kidney donation in Iran", in International Urology and Nephrology 1-12 (March 2018) co-authored with Deborah Chen, Bahar Bastani, Simin Golestani, Rachana Agarwal, Howsikan Kugathasan, and Melissa Le. With the same group of co-authors, she also published "Introducing an Exploitation/Fair Dealings Scale for Evaluating Living Organ Donor Policies Using Iran as the Test Case" in World Medical and Health Policy (May 2018).[2]

Sigrid Fry-Revere
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSmith College;
Georgetown University

Fry-Revere's work with living organ donors in the U.S. began when she founded the American Living Organ Donor Fund (ALODF) in 2014. Her discoveries working with U.S. organ donors lead to an NPR American Life Segment (2016), a TEDx in 2017, and a lead article: "Solving the Organ Shortage by Giving Organ Donors What They Deserve in the Journal of Hospital Ethics" (Vol 5, No. 1, Winter 2018). She left the ALODF in 2018 because of mission drift and joined Kid-U-Not Living Organ Donor Fund as its executive director. Kid-U-Not is exclusively focused on providing grants to living organ donors to help them with their non-medical organ donation related expenses.  

In addition to the Kidney Sellers mentioned above, Fry-Revere has written Defining Death: A New Legal Perspective (2014), Ethics & Answers in Home Health Care: A Practical Guide for Dealing with Bioethical Issues in Your Organization (1995), and The Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants (1992). She has also contributed chapters or entries in books edited by others. These are: “Terminally Ill Patients Should Be Allowed to Use Experimental Drugs” in Prescription Drugs (2008), “Federal Money and Oversight for Stem Cell Research” in Should the Government Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research? (2009), and "Bioethics Consultation Services" in BioLaw. [3]

She is also the author of hundreds of articles both academic and in the popular press on a variety of topics in patient care ethics, including articles on stem cell research, end of life decision making, and vaccines. Some of these articles are "Where’s the Safety Net?" on the front page of the Huffington Post [4](June 2016) and “Between Scylla and Charybdis: Charting an Ethical Course for Research into Financial Incentives for Living Kidney Donation.” in The American Journal of Transplantation (February 2016).

Education

Sigrid Fry-Revere earned her BA with honors in both government and philosophy at Smith College in 1983 and went on to earn her Masters in Jurisprudence at Georgetown University in 1984. Sigrid completed a joint degree program at Georgetown, receiving her J.D. in 1988 and Ph.D. in philosophy in 1990. While at Georgetown University Law Center, Sigrid was the executive editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics for its inaugural issue and projects editor for The Georgetown Criminal Law Review. In 1991, Sigrid went on to become a post-graduate clinical fellow at the University of Virginia Hospital in 1991.[5]

Background

Fry-Revere worked as an attorney, practicing bioethics, health, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration law with the law firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn. She worked as an adjunct professor of ethics and healthcare law at George Mason University College of Nursing and Health Science and as an associate professor at the University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics. [6] She has also consulted for hospitals, hospices, and home health agencies. Fry-Revere has written one book and edited another on bioethics consultation and written more than a hundred articles, which have appeared in newspapers, journals, and publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. [7] She formerly served as Director of Bioethics Studies at the Cato Institute.[8] [9]

In 2008, Fry-Revere became the founder and president of the Center for Ethical Solutions, an organization that educated the public on critical issues in patient-care ethics. In 2013, Sigrid founded Stop Organ Trafficking Now which lobbies government and educates the public on how to increase organ donation in the U.S. and reduce the number of Americans who turn to illegally trafficked organs to try to save their lives. Sigrid became the founder and president of the American Living Organ Donor Fund in 2014. Since 2018, Sigrid has become the executive director of Kid-U-Not Living Organ Donor Fund. Kid-U-Not is exclusively focused on providing grants to living organ donors to help them with their non-medical organ donation related expenses.  

Community involvement

Sigrid has served as a medical ethicist on the Washington Regional Transplant Community Organ and Tissue Advisory Committee (2008-2018), Organ and Tissue Advisory Committee (2008-2018). WRTC is the Organ Procurement Organization (from deceased donors) for Washington, DC and neighboring regions in Maryland and Virginia.[10] Prior, Sigrid was a consultant to the Arlington Hospital, Virginia (1995-1996) as well as a consultant to the VNA Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1994-1995). She was also a bioethics consultant to the Virginia Bioethics Network at the University of Virginia (1993-1994). [11]

Homelife

Sigrid lives with her husband Bob Corn-Revere on their farm in Lovettsville, Virginia, where they raised their four children. Most of Sigrid's hobbies are related to the farm. She has raised guardian donkeys, Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs, Pixiebob cats, and bees. She also has raised vegetable and fruit crops, but mostly for personal use.

Publications
Books
  • The Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants, University Publishing Group, Inc., 1992;
  • Ethics & Answers in Home Health Care: A Practical Guide for Dealing with Bioethical Issues in Your Organization, Fry-Revere, Sorrell & Silva (Eds.), George Mason University Center for Health Care Ethics 1995;
  • Defining Death: A New Legal Perspective (co-author with Thomas Reher and Matthew Ray) Scholars’ Press, 2014
  • The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran. Published by Carolina Academic Press (2014). The Kidney Sellers provides ground breaking research on how Iran became the first country in the world to solve its kidney shortage.[1]
Articles
  • Fry-Revere, Sigrid (2008). "Euthanasia". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Cato Institute. pp. 156–58. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n98. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
  • Fry-Revere, Sigrid (2018). "Introducing an Exploitation / Fair Dealings Scale for Evaluating Living Organ Donor Policies Using Iran as the Test Case”. In the Journal: World Medical & Health Policy
  • Fry-Revere, Sigrid (2018). “Coercion, dissatisfaction and social stigma: an ethnographic study of compensated living kidney donation in Iran”. In Springer Nature. International Urology and Nephrology.
  • Fry-Revere, Sigrid (2018). "Solving the Organ Shortage by Giving Living Organ Donors What They Deserve". In the Journal of Hospital Ethics.
  • Fry-Revere, Sigrid (2018). "Are we Accidentally Paying Donors o Donate?: There's an Easy way to Stop these Unintentional Violations of NOTA"


References
  1. Major, RW (2008). "Paying kidney donors: time to follow Iran?". Mcgill J Med. 11 (1): 67–9. PMC 2322914. PMID 18523518.
  2. "Bioethicist and living donor advocate Sigrid Fry-Revere challenges the current organ donor system with questions about why Iran's system is more responsible and ethical". EMU News. 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  3. "Sigrid Fry-Revere". Libertarianism.org. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  4. "Sigrid Fry-Revere | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  5. "Sigrid Fry-Revere - a Lovettsville, Virginia (VA) Administrative Law Lawyer". pview.findlaw.com. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  6. "Sigrid Fry-Revere on Ethics of National and International Organ Markets". April 2014.
  7. "National Review : We Should Follow Iran's Kidney Selling OK?". February 2014.
  8. "Sigrid Fry-Revere on Iran's kidney market". May 2014.
  9. "Sigrid Fry-Revere on Iran's Kidney Market, Presentation at CATO". May 2014.
  10. "DC Public Library - The Kidney Sellers' By Sigrid Fry-Revere". April 2014.
  11. "The Rutgers Journal of Bioethics" (PDF). 2019.
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