WashU Nephrology bids a fond farewell to Charbel Khoury, MD, who is leaving the division to join Sutter Health’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Mountain View, California. Since joining the division in 2018, Dr. Khoury has brought a distinctive combination of expertise in nephrology, nutrition, and metabolism, contributing to its clinical, academic, and quality improvement […]
After nearly four decades of service to WashU Nephrology, Daniel Coyne, MD, is retiring at the end of 2025. Dr. Coyne first came to WashU as a renal fellow in 1986 and joined the faculty upon completing his training. Following a three-year appointment at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in his home state of […]
WashU Nephrology celebrated our graduating renal and transplant fellows at a dinner held at the Third Degree Glass Factory on Thursday, June 13, 2024. To all the graduates, please know you will be missed. We wish you, the future of nephrology, all the best in your careers! Parting words: Pics of the graduation celebration at […]
WashU Nephrology bids a fond farewell to Hani Suleiman, MD, PhD, who is taking a position as Assistant Professor of Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Division of Nephrology, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Suleiman’s research focuses on podocytopathies, a group of glomerular diseases that affect the kidney’s ability […]
WashU Nephrology bids farewell to transplant nephrologist Andrew Malone, MB, BCh, BAO, MD, who is returning to his homeland of Ireland to take a position at St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin. Dr. Malone came to WashU for a fellowship in transplantation nephrology before joining our division in 2015 as Assistant Professor of Medicine. In […]
It is truly a bittersweet moment as we say farewell to Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, a valued member of WashU Nephrology for over 25 years, who is retiring from the Division. Dr. Vijayan earned her medical degree from the University of the West Indies and completed a residency in internal medicine at St. Luke’s hospital […]
WashU Nephrology celebrated our graduating renal and transplant fellows at a dinner held at the St. Louis Science Center on Thursday, June 15, 2023. “We are immensely proud of our graduating fellows as they move forward to the next chapter of their lives,” says Seth Goldberg, MD, Director of the WashU Nephrology Fellowship Program. “Their training […]
WashU Nephrology welcomes our new Nurse Administrator at Forest Park Kidney Center, Paula Schaefer, RN, who is taking the helm from Patricia (Patty) Anderson, RN, CNN. Patty is retiring after 39 years in the division. After graduating from the Lutheran School of Nursing in 2010, Paula went on to acquire broad nursing experience in acute […]
WashU Nephrology bids a heartfelt farewell to postdoctoral research fellow Kohei Omachi, PhD, who is returning to Japan after almost five years of research in the Jeff Miner Laboratory. He will be taking a position at the RIKEN Institute in Kobei. Dr. Omachi has been a prolific researcher of the inherited disease Alport syndrome during […]