John Malamon, PhD, MS

Publications

• Murphy RD, Park SY, Allen LA, et al. The Colorado Heart Failure Acuity Risk Model: A Mortality Model for Waitlisted Cardiac Transplant Patients. JACC: Advances 2025;4(1):101449.
• Di Napoli M, Nydam T, Baimas-George M, Choudhury R, Kaplan B, Malamon J. The Sex-Based Survival Disparity Persists in Liver Transplantation: MELD 3.0 Fails to Improve Upon the Disadvantage for Waitlisted Women. American Journal of Transplantation 2025;25(8):S212-S213.
• Di Napoli M, Nydam T, Baimas-George M, Choudhury R, Kaplan B, Malamon J. The Sex-Based Survival Disparity Persists in Liver Transplantation: MELD 3.0 Fails to Improve Upon the Disadvantage for Waitlisted Women. Annals of Surgery
• Bababekov Y, Goncalves C, Malamon J, et al. Predicting DCD Progression within 30 minutes: A Calculator to Assist Decisions to Implement Perfusion Strategies. American Journal of Transplantation 2025;25(1):S83-S84.
• Bababekov YJ, Goncalves C, Ha AH, et al. Managing Expectations of Prolonged Warm Ischemia Time: A Calculator to Predict Donation After Circulatory Death Donor Progression to Circulatory Death Within 30 Min. Clinical Transplantation 2025;39(10):e70336.
• Malamon JS, Bashain E, Cain MT, Bhagwandin B, Kaplan B, Hoffman JR. Evaluation of the OPTN Six-Status Heart Allocation System and a Combined Prognostic Model for Waitlist Risk Evaluation. medRxiv 2025:2025.09. 22.25336410.
• Patient Outcomes After Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplants Using DCD Donors Deanna Dwyer, Elizabeth J. Bashian, Thomas F. O’Shea, Carson Campisi, Michael T. Cain, Jordan R.H. Hoffman, John Malamon, Nicholas R. Teman
• Title: Is it time to uncap MELD score for liver allocation? Analysis of waitlist mortality in patients with MELD 3.0 >40 Authors: Marissa Di Napoli, Maria Baimas-George, Haaris Kadri, Michael Kriss, Kendra Conzen, Megan Adams, Thomas Pshak, Rashikh Choudhury, Trevor Nydam, John Malamon
• Kovacs GG, Katsumata Y, Wu X, et al. Amyloid-ß predominant Alzheimer’s disease neuropathologic change. Brain 2025;148(2):401-407.
• Peter C, Sathe A, Shashikumar N, et al. White Matter Abnormalities and Cognition in Aging and Alzheimer Disease. JAMA neurology 2025.
• Philip JL, Saben J, Meram E, et al. Renal autotransplant as a definitive treatment for nutcracker syndrome: A multicenter retrospective study. Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders 2025;13(1):101983.
• Philip JL, Saben J, Meram E, et al. Renal Auto-Transplant as a Definitive Treatment for Nutcracker Syndrome: A Multi-Center Retrospective Study. Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders 2024:101983.
• Malamon JS, Farrell JJ, Xia LC, et al. A comparative study of structural variant calling in WGS from Alzheimer’s disease families. Life Science Alliance 2024;7(5).
• Malamon JS. DNA N-gram Analysis Framework (DNAnamer): A generalized N-gram frequency analysis framework for the supervised classification of DNA sequences. Heliyon 2024:2024.02. 02.578674.
• Leung YY, Naj AC, Chou Y-F, et al. Human whole-exome genotype data for Alzheimer’s disease. Nature communications 2024;15(1):684.
• Goncalves C, Bhagwandin B, Malamon J, Kaplan B. AI-enhanced Information Navigation: Insights From Information Theory in Transplantation Data. Transplantation 2024:10.1097.
• Budhiraja P, Schold JD, Heilman RL, Malamon J, Kaplan B. Integrating Epidemiological Data and Conditional Probabilistic Approaches in Clinical Decision-making: A Focus on Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation 2024:10.1097.
• Abidi MZ, Schold JD, Kaplan B, Weinberg A, Erlandson KM, Malamon JS. Patient Years Lost Due to Cytomegalovirus Serostatus Mismatching in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Frontiers in Immunology 2024;14:1292648.
• Wang H, Dombroski BA, Cheng P-L, et al. Structural Variation Detection and Association Analysis of Whole-Genome-Sequence Data from 16,905 Alzheimer’s Diseases Sequencing Project Subjects. medRxiv 2023.
• Murphy RD, Park SY, Allen LA, et al. The Colorado Heart Failure Acuity Risk Model (CHARM) Score: A Mortality Risk Model for Waitlisted Cardiac Transplant Patients. medRxiv 2023:2023.08. 30.23294870.
• Malamon JS, Jackson WE, Saben JL, Conzen K, Schold JD, Pomposelli JJ, Pomfret EA, Kaplan B. A model for calculating the long-term estimated post-transplant survival of deceased donor liver transplant patients. EBioMedicine. 2023 Apr;90:104505. PubMed PMID: 36870199
• Trivedi P, Saben JL, Liu L, Malamon JS, Pomfret E, Pshak T. Preliminary safety and efficacy of laser stricturotomy for treatment of refractory biliary anastomotic strictures following liver transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2023 Apr;23(4):573-576. PubMed PMID: 36695697
• Malamon JS, Kaplan B, Jackson WE, Saben JL, Schold JD, Pomfret EA, Pomposelli JJ. Reassessing the survival benefit of deceased donor liver transplantation: retrospective cohort study. Int J Surg. 2023 Sep 1;109(9):2714-2720. PubMed PMID: 37226874
• Malamon JS, Kaplan B. Validation of the Integrity of the OPTN/UNOS Transplantation Registry Data. Transplantation. 2023 Dec 1;107(12):e324-e325. PubMed PMID: 37726887
• Schold J, Malamon J, Kaplan B. Statistical Confounding in Observational Research and Center Performance Evaluations in Organ Transplantation. Current Transplantation Reports. 2023:1-6.
• An evaluation of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network's expanded post-transplant performance metrics
• Structural Variation Detection and Association Analysis of Whole-Genome-Sequence Data from 16,905 Alzheimer's Diseases Sequencing Project Subjects
• Malamon JS, Kaplan B, Jackson WE, Saben JL, Schold JD, Pomfret EA, Pomposelli JJ. Reassessing the Survival Benefit of Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation. Liver Transplantation. 2022.
• Trivedi P, Saben JL, Liu L, Malamon JS, Pshak T. Preliminary safety and efficacy of Laser Stricturotomy for treatment of refractory biliary anastomotic strictures following liver transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 2022.
• J. Farrell, C. Zhu, X. Sun, J. Huang, C. Dalgard, B. Dombroski, J.S. Malamon, Y. Leung, E. R. Martin, W. S. Bush, M. Pericak-Vance, B. Vardarajan, W-P. Lee, J. Haines, L. Farrer, G. Schellenberg (2022). 5,510 bp Deletion Upstream of NCK2 is associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and Deletes 6 CREs in Microglia PU.1 Super-Enhancer.
• John S. Malamon, John J. Farrell, Li Charlie Xia, Beth A. Dombroski, Wan-Ping Lee, Rueben G. Das, Badri N. Vardarajan, Jessica Way, Amanda B. Kuzma, Otto Valladares, Yuk Yee Leung, Allison J. Scanlon, Irving Antonio Barrera Lopez, Jack Brehony, Kim C. Worley, Nancy R. Zhang, Li-San Wang, Lindsay A. Farrer, Gerard D. Schellenberg. (2022). A comparative study of structural variant calling strategies using the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project’s whole genome family data. bioRxiv 2022.05.19.492472; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.19.492472.
• Jackson WE, Malamon JS, Kaplan B, et al. Survival Benefit of Living-Donor Liver Transplant. JAMA Surg. Published online August 03, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2022.3327.
• Malamon JS, Saben J, and Kaplan B. FACTORs: a Novel R Package for Functional Data Reduction and Hypothesis Testing. bioRxiv. 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.28.514171
• Malamon JS, Jackson WE, Conzen K, Saben JL, Schold JD, Pomfret EA, Pomposelli JJ, Kaplan B. A Model for Calculating the Long-Term Estimated Post-Transplant Survival of Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Patients. American Journal of Transplantation. 2022.