What Air Traffic Can Teach Us About Kidney Transplants

This is the second of two stories we’re doing this week on organ transplants. See the first story, Who Decides Whether This 26-Year-Old Woman Gets A Lung Transplant?

Nikolaos Trichakis is a Harvard Business School professor who studies air traffic. He was watching the news one night when a segment came on about the waiting list for kidney transplants.

He’d never thought much about organs, but it immediately became clear to him that his insights into air traffic might help patients waiting for kidneys.