Ignacio Portales-Castillo, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, WashU Nephrology, will present “Molecular Insights Into PTH/PTHrP Receptor Function Lead to Novel Clinical Applications” at the Department of Medicine’s Medicine Grand Rounds on September 26, 2024, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. in the Wohl Clinic Clopton Auditorium at 4950 Children’s Place. Breakfast will be available outside the auditorium […]
The popular Nephrology Business Leadership University (NBLU) recently concluded its 2024 session, with all six of our WashU Nephrology’s second-year fellows proudly attending the graduation. Now in its ninth year, the event brings together nephrology professionals to prepare senior fellows for the economics and business aspects of their future careers in nephrology. The week-long session […]
Congratulations to Thomas Gowen, Jr, RN, and Patrice Finnie, RN, on their new roles as nurse administrators at three WashU Nephrology dialysis centers. Gowen will be the new nurse administrator of our Forest Park Kidney Center ICHD (in-center hemodialysis), and Finnie will take over the role as nurse administrator at two centers, Village Square Dialysis […]
Congratulations to three WashU Nephrology postdoctoral scholars for being awarded the highly competitive American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Cure Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program grants. The Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program grants are designed to support postdoctoral fellows in conducting original, high-quality research that will help establish the beginnings of an independent […]
WashU Nephrology is proud to have six of our outstanding physicians selected for the 2024 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® list for excellence in medicine. Daniel W. Coyne, MD, Patricia F. Kao, MD, MS, Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, Will Ross, MD, Marcos Rothstein, MD, Paul Scheel Jr., MD, MBA, and Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN (now at […]
WashU Nephrology is proud to announce that registration is now open for the 2nd Annual Glomerular Disease Symposium: An Update on Disease Mechanisms and Management, to be held on Saturday, September 6 – 7, 2024, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center, located on the WashU Medical Campus. This in-person, two-day symposium will feature leading […]
We are proud to welcome the following physicians to our WashU Nephrology Fellowship Program, 2024-2026.
To the delight of patients and staff, local canine celebrities Bear and Brookie made their rounds at WashU Nephrology’s Village Square Dialysis Unit last week. Bear and Brookie, a pair of Labrador mix pups rescued from a rural Missouri dump in 2023, became official University employees last year when they joined the WashU Police Department […]
Keith Hruska, MD, a world-renowned nephrologist and researcher, is celebrating 50 years as a faculty member at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His impressive career includes significant contributions to the understanding of bone and mineral metabolism in relation to chronic kidney diseases (CKD). Currently a Professor of Pediatrics and Director Emeritus of […]
WashU Nephrology welcomes Brittany Barbour, MSW, LCSW, our new Social Worker at Chromalloy Kidney Center. Brittany, who is from Bloomington, Illinois, completed her undergraduate work at Northern Illinois University in 2009. She was an Americorps volunteer in Olympia, Washington, for three years before she moved to St. Louis in 2012 to attend graduate school at […]