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 which resulted in a talk given at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in 2014. Her research in Iran also resulted in two academic articles published in 2018: ", in International Urology and Nephrology 1-12 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 " in World Medical and Health Policy.
Fry-Revere's work with living organ donors in the U.S. began when she founded the American Living Organ Donor Fund in 2014. Her discoveries working with U.S. organ donors lead to an , a in 2017, and a lead article: . She left the ALODF in 2018 because of mission drift and joined as its executive director. 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, Ethics & Answers in Home Health Care: A Practical Guide for Dealing with Bioethical Issues in Your Organization, and The Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants. 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 , “Federal Money and Oversight for Stem Cell Research” in Should the Government Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research?, and "Bioethics Consultation Services" in BioLaw.
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 on the front page of the Huffington Post and in The American Journal of Transplantation.

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.

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. 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. She formerly served as Director of Bioethics Studies at the Cato Institute.
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 in 2014. Since 2018, Sigrid has become the executive director of . 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. Prior, Sigrid was a consultant to the Arlington Hospital, Virginia as well as a consultant to the VNA Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was also a bioethics consultant to the Virginia Bioethics Network at the University of Virginia.

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.

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