There is still time to register for the St. Louis Fellows Forum on January 22, 2026, at the Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel in St. Louis. Hosted by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) serving Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, the event brings together renal fellows and mentoring teams from Washington University School of Medicine and Saint Louis […]
Yasir Baloch, MBBS, currently in his second year of the WashU Fellowship Program, describes his rewarding experience at last year’s Nephrology Business Leadership University (NBLU) in the video below. The popular NBLU brings together nephrology professionals to prepare senior fellows for the economics and business aspects of their future careers in nephrology. All six senior fellows from our […]
The fourth National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Annual Fellows Renal Roundtable, will be held Thursday, December 5, 2024, 5:00 – 7:30 PM, at the Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel, 191 Westport Plaza, St. Louis, MO, 63146. The professional education and networking event is a collaboration of WashU and SSM Health Saint Louis University (SLU) nephrology programs. Renal fellows […]
We are so proud to present our 2024 WashU Nephrology Fellowship Training Program video, highlighting the excellent clinical training, research, and teaching experiences we offer in our two-year fellowship program. But what makes this video even more special is that it was designed and produced by our very own fellows. Yasir Baloch, MBBS, now entering […]
Second-year WashU Nephrology fellows Maryam Saleem, MBBS, Bharat Neelam Raju, MD, Hassaan Iftikhar, MBBS, and Gaurav Rajashekar, MBBS, took part in the 2021 Nephrology Business Leadership University (NBLU) program, which wrapped up its week-long event on August 8, 2021. The interactive event schools participants on the economics and business of nephrology to help senior fellows […]
WashU Nephrology celebrated our graduating renal and transplant fellows at a dinner held at the Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza gathering space on June 8, 2021. Please know you will be missed! We wish you all the best in your careers. Renal Fellows: Transplant Fellows: See video below for more pictures of the graduation celebration. […]
In a recent webinar sponsored by the American Society of Nephrology (@ASNKidney), a panel of renal fellows from across the US and Canada discussed the mental and emotional burden of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns about patient care, and the different divisional/institutional approaches to managing the pandemic, including distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines. The ultimate purpose […]
Congratulations to second-year WashU Nephrology fellow Blessing Osondu, MD, who has been accepted into the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship offered through the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, here at Washington University. Dr. Osondu will enter the one-year fellowship upon completion of her nephrology fellowship in 2021. “I am overjoyed with excitement […]
It’s been an eventful year of learning, hard work, and battling the COVID-19 pandemic. As new fellows are welcomed into the WashU Nephrology training program, two of our second-year fellows – Drs. Gonzalo Matzumura and Sana Javeed Shaikh – reflect on their time here in the division and in St. Louis. Gonzalo, born and raised […]
An event organizer enthusiast, an avid surfer, a gearhead, an official translator/interpreter, and a self-proclaimed workoutholic, WashU Nephrology welcomes our 2020-2022 fellows. We are proud to introduce: Maryam Saleem, MBBS, earned her medical degree from King Edward Medical University Pakistan and completed her residency at Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program, Waterbury, CT. While Maryam had […]