WashU/SLU City Wide Renal Grand Rounds is Back after Three-Year Hiatus

The Paul Mennes, MD, Memorial St. Louis City-Wide Renal Grand Rounds Dinner returns after a three-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  The event will be held Tuesday, March 14, 2023, at the Bristol Seafood Grill, 11801 Olive Blvd, Creve Coeur, MO. The event, co-hosted by Washington University School of Medicine Division of Nephrology and […]

WashU Nephrology/Transplant and IGSS Gather in Guatemala for 5th Annual Nephrology Symposium 

The 5th Annual Nephrology Symposium, a collaboration between Washington University Nephrology and Transplant and the Guatemalan Social Security Institute (IGSS) was held February 3-5, 2023, in Guatemala City.  The two centers, now in their 8th year of collaboration, are official “Sister Renal Centers” under the sponsorship of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN).  The meeting, […]

ASN Kidney Week 2022 – WashU Nephrology Calendar

ASN Kidney Week 2022 and preliminary programs will be held in Orlando, FL, November 2 – 6, 2022.  Below is a list of our speakers, poster presentations and more! Poster Presentations will be held in Exhibit Hall, Orange County Convention Center, West Building. All Presentation times are in EDT. Pre-Course (Virtual/On-Demand) Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, Professor […]

WashU Transplant Nephrology/BJH Transplant Present at American Transplant Congress 2022

WashU Nephrology Transplant and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Transplant will be well-represented at the 2022 American Transplant Congress (ATC) being held virtually and in-person June 4-8 in Boston, MA.  A joint annual meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the ATC provides transplant professionals the opportunity to present and discuss […]

WashU Nephrology Participates in 2022 NKF Spring Clinical Meetings

The 2022 National Kidney Foundation’s Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM22) are currently underway in Boston, MA, April 6-10, with several members of WashU Nephrology in attendance.   The annual meeting presents the latest insights into chronic kidney disease care and focuses on translating science into practice for the entire healthcare team.  While it is a live […]

NP Lisa Koester-Wiedemann and Drs. Marcos Rothstein, Frank O’Brien and George Jarad Participate in Annual Dialysis Conference 2022

WashU Nephrology members Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, MSN, CS, CNN-NP, Marcos Rothstein, MD, Frank O’Brien, MD, and George Jarad, MD, are part of the Annual Dialysis Conference (ADC) program being held this weekend, March 4-6, 2022. Now in its 42nd year, the ADC hosts the world’s largest multidisciplinary conference on dialysis.  Sponsored by the University of Missouri […]

Drs. Frank O’Brien, Lisa Zickuhr and Nathan Nolan, with Social Worker Andrew Robinson, to Present Health Equity Education Workshop at AIMW22

“Interprofessional, Multidisciplinary Case Conferences: A Novel Approach to Integrating Health Equity Education into Graduate Medical Training Programs” will be the topic of a workshop at the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2022 (AIMW22) thanks to a multi-division collaboration of WashU physicians and allied health professionals. The proposal for the workshop, submitted by Frank O’Brien, […]

ASN Kidney Week 2021 – WashU Nephrology Calendar

ASN Kidney Week 2021 will be held Thursday November 4 – Sunday 7, 2021.  The annual meeting, fully virtual again this year, will consist of a variety of simulive, live-streamed, and on-demand sessions/posters/exhibits.   Please note the following: – On-demand sessions will be available to view at your convenience starting at 10:00 a.m. PT (Pacific […]

Ying Maggie Chen to Speak at Yale Symposium

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Ying Maggie Chen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Washington University in St. Louis, will present at the 2021 George M. O’Brien Kidney Center at Yale Annual Symposium.  The virtual event will be held Friday, May 7, 2021.  Advances in Kidney Research is the theme of this year’s symposium. […]