Can a simple text or an automated phone call dramatically reduce the number of missed dialysis appointments and hospitalizations due to renal complications? The answer, amazingly, is ‘yes,’ thanks to an innovative message-based technology platform developed by Washington University students. “I was shocked that something so simple could have such a profound result,” says nephrologist […]
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Pretransplant Midodrine a Risk for Transplant Complications
In this month’s Transplantation, Tarek Alhamad, MD, reports that the use of midorine to maintain blood pressure during dialysis associates with transplant complications. The study integrated three databases for the analysis, the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network, pharmaceutical claims data and Medicare billing claims databases. In an accompanying editorial, Chon and Josephson write, “Beyond its […]
Yau Selected Coursemaster, Practice of Medicine
Dr. Timothy Yau has been selected as the new Practice of Medicine I and III coursemaster, effective April 1. In this role he will be responsible for overseeing the clinical skills education of all first-year medical students in addition to several other content areas contained within the course, as well as directing a monthly lecture […]
CKD & MBD: Past, Present and Future April 8, 2016
Washington University School of Medicine and the Division of Nephrology announces a scientific symposium in honor of the career of Eduardo Slatopolsky, MD. This event will takes place on April 8, 2016, in the Eric P. Newman Conference Center. CME credit is available. The registration fee is complimentary, but registration is required. Learning Objectives: 1) […]
Nephrology Update for the PCP CME Course
The Division of Nephrology is pleased to announce a CME-accredited course, “Nephrology Update for the Primary Care Provider.” The course will take place on April 2, 2016, please register here. This live activity is designed for health care professionals including physicians in training, internists, pharmacists, nephrologists, nurses, and nurse practitioners who are involved in the […]
Youtube Nephrology Teaching Episode #5 Published
Test your diagnostic skills with the case of a young patient with a nephritic presentation: Cr 1.7, 3+ blood, 3+ protein, rbc casts on sediment, UPC = 3.8 g/g and low C3 in a 32 year-old male who developed tea colored urine, edema and hypertension. Dr. Tim Yau has now released the fifth episode of […]
Daloul, Miller Present Home Modalities Reimbursement Data
Second year fellow Reem Daloul, MD, recently presented a poster at the Annual Dialysis Conference, February 27-March 2 in Seattle, Washington. The poster, entitled “Physician Reimbursement for In-Center Hemodialysis is Greater Than for Peritoneal or Home Hemodialysis,” identified financial disincentives for nephrologists to provide home renal replacement therapies for patients. One reason for this finding […]
Sanjay Jain MD, PhD wins Kidney Challenge Grant
Sanjay Jain, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology, won the inaugural Kidney Challenge Grant co-sponsored by the Center of Regenerative Medicine and the Division of Nephrology. Jain’s grant, entitled, “New frontiers in making kidneys and understanding kidney disease,” focuses on the development on human pluripotent stem cell lines that will […]
Youtube: Medical Jeopardy with WU Renal Fellows
Dr. Tim Yau has introduced a new format for his popular Youtube nephrology teaching series – Medical Jeopardy. The fellows competed against each other with some surprisingly tough questions in the following categories: Totally Tubular, Urine Trouble, Critical Kidneys, Syndromes, Landmark Trials and Movies (since it is Oscar season). Follow along, and see how you […]
CKD & MBD: Past, Present and Future April 8, 2016
Washington University School of Medicine and the Division of Nephrology announces a scientific symposium in honor of the career of Eduardo Slatopolsky, MD. This event will takes place on April 8, 2016, in the Eric P. Newman Conference Center. CME credit is available. The registration fee is complimentary, but registration is required. Learning Objectives: 1) […]