John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
We are delighted to announce that Naoka Murakami, MD, PhD, has joined WashU Nephrology as an Assistant Professor, effective September 1, 2024. She comes to us from the Division of Nephrology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Murakami earned her MD and PhD from Tokyo University and completed her residency training […]
After two and a half long years of hard work, the WashU Epic Dialysis Project is finally live! On August 1, 2023, our dialysis centers switched over to the Epic electronic medical records (EMR) system. The EPIC system replaces the clinical and billing systems Cyberren and Medical Manager, which had been in place for the […]
The Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine welcomes transplant nephrologist Rohan Singh Paul, MBBS, who joined us as Assistant Professor of Medicine on November 1, 2022. Dr. Paul comes to us from the George Washington University Hospital where he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Kidney Diseases and […]
The Division of Nephrology welcomes Karen Marie G. Flores, MD, who joined our faculty as Assistant Professor of Medicine on September 1, 2022. She is a 2022 graduate of our Transplant Training Program. Dr. Flores came to WashU from the nephrology fellowship program at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Columbus. She earned a bachelor’s […]
For almost 80 years, dialysis has been a lifesaving procedure for patients with kidney failure, yet problems such as low quality of life and the realization that patients will have to remain on dialysis for the rest of their lives have resulted in an increased interest in kidney transplantation. The number of available transplantable kidneys, […]
As an international expert in the care of patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Jack Burks, MD, has traveled to over 40 countries lecturing and evaluating MS patients. However, when looking back at his long, distinguished medical career – one filled with dedication, adventure, and personal risk – Dr. Burks admits his recent kidney transplant was one […]