Scholars
Bahar Bastani
Dr. Bastani has been with the Center since the fall of 2008. He is co-author with Sigrid Fry-Revere of a forthcoming book documenting the results of their filed research on the Iranian organ procurement system and an investigator on a proposed grant to study U.S. attitudes towards compensated kidney donation.
Dr Bastani is a Professor of Medicine – Nephrology at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri. He completed his Medical school and residency training in Internal Medicine at Shiraz University, Iran in 1980. He was head of the Health Dept. in Jahrom City during 1980-1982, served in Bandar Abbas during 1983-4, and served as a faculty in Medicine at Tehran University in early 1984.
He immigrated to USA in 1984, did 2 years of fellowship in Nephrology at Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville; 2 years of Senior and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hosp.-Univ. of Wisconsin; and 3 years of Research Fellowship at Washington Univ., Saint Louis MO, (1988 to 1991). He has published some 180 scientific medical manuscripts and book chapters.
Dr Bastani is in the board of directors of “Iranian-American Cultural Society of Mid-West” and “Shia Islamic Educational Center in Saint Louis”. He is also Vice President of “the Islamic Medical Association of North America – Saint Louis branch”.
Dr Bastani was president of Faculty Assembly of Saint Louis University-School of Medicine from 2005 to 2008, and American Association of University Professors – Saint Louis University Chapter.
Alison Mathey
Alison Mathey is a third-year law student at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. She graduated cum laude from the College of William & Mary in 2007. She was a CES intern from the Fall of 2008 through the Summer of 2009. In the Fall of 2009 she became a CES scholar and the editor of “Legal Trends in Bioethics.”
P. Michael Kalis
P. Michael Kalis is a research scholar whose primary focus at the Center is the worldwide shortage of transplantable organs for persons who require them. His current activities at the Center include a report on various organ procurement strategies utilized in a number of countries. Mr. Kalis received both his J.D. and M.A. in Bioethics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Suzanne Zychowicz
Suzanne Zychowicz is a consulting scholar researching minority health disparities and concerns regarding live kidney donation and transplantation. She has been instrumental and continues to assist Sigrid Fry-Revere with grant writing and seeking project funding opportunities for the Center. Suzanne joined the Center in the spring of 2009 after earning her Masters of Science in Nursing from California State University, San Bernardino; where her graduate research experience as a RIMI (Research Infrastructure for Minority Serving Institutions) Health Scholar and community health program emphasis included comprehensive examination of health disparities among minority populations. In addition to her clinical practice Suzanne has enjoyed serving her community as a member of the city of Temecula’s Medical Facility Task Force, as a Community Review Team member and Loaned Executive with the United Way of the Inland Valleys, as Co-Chair of the Health and Safety Committee and volunteer positions for a local charter school, and in leadership for community public advocacy. Suzanne and her husband, Ohio natives, now reside in Temecula, CA where they have been raising their three daughters and son.
