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WashU Nephrology gives a heartfelt thank you to Paul Roberson for his 40 years of service to the Division. Roberson, with an associate degree in applied sciences degree in electronic engineering technology, began his career at Chromalloy Kidney Center working as a Special Procedures Attendant in reuse and supply management and then an equipment maintenance technician.  […]

Do you need help identifying your career passions?  If so, there is still time to sign up for the interactive discussion, Fellows’ Corner – Should I Subspecialize, an opportunity to connect with women faculty who will share their experiences about specializing and becoming experts in their medical fields. The inaugural online event, to be held […]

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 is proud to announce Professor of Medicine Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, as the recipient of the 2023 Nathan Hellman Memorial Teacher of the Year Award. The annual award is given to a faculty member selected by our Division’s fellows.  The recipient receives an inscribed plaque and a cash award to support professional development. The teaching award […]

The Midwest Transplant & Nephrology Symposium, chaired by Tarek Alhamad, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, and Medical Director of Transplant Nephrology at WashU, will be held October 13-15, 2023, at the Institute of Public Health, St. Louis, MO.   The event provides an opportunity for health care professionals to learn more […]

Morgan Schoer, MD, a recent graduate of the WashU Nephrology Fellowship Program, joined our faculty as Assistant Professor on August 21 , 2023. Dr. Schoer earned her medical degree here at Washington University.  After completing her residency at Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University, she entered our Nephrology Fellowship Program in 2021.  As a first-year renal fellow, Dr. Schoer was […]

“We will see what springtime brings,” says Thomas Gowen, Jr, RN, as he contemplates what to plant next year in the raised-bed area in front of WashU Nephrology’s newest dialysis facility. Gowen, the Nurse Manager of the Village Square Dialysis Center in Hazelwood, MO, planted sunflowers this past spring and the results were spectacular.  “This […]

WashU Nephrology congratulates Vikas Dharnidharka, MD, MPH, who was installed as the Alexis F. Hartmann Sr, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at a ceremony on August 3, 2023, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.  He presented the talk “Infections and cancers after transplant: what they have taught us about immunology, virology, genomics and oncology,” prefaced […]

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 […]

Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, Division of Nephrology, Washington University in St. Louis, and Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD, Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, are co-hosts of the symposium “Molecular Mechanisms of Organismal Physiology in Health and Disease” to be held September 7, 2023 in St Louis.  The day-long event is free, but registration is […]

WashU Nephrology is excited to welcome our 2023 renal transplant fellows.  The comprehensive, one-year Transplant Nephrology Program allows trainees to be part of one of the largest and most experienced kidney transplant centers in the United States.

We are proud to welcome the following physicians to our WashU Nephrology Fellowship Program:

Yoshiharu, Muto, MD, PhD, Instructor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, has been awarded a 2023 Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant by the KidneyCure Transition to Independence Grants Program, a foundation of the American Society of Nephrology. The scholarship program helps young biomedical investigators achieve independent research careers with funding of up to $100,000 per year for […]

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is dedicated to providing quality health care services to Veterans with kidney disease.  To spread the word of recent innovative kidney medicine services, research, and resources, they recently published the inaugural edition of their VHA Kidney Medicine Newsletter.  WashU Nephrology is proud that our very own Anuja Java, MD, who […]

WashU Nephrology is proud to announce that registration is now open for its inaugural Glomerular Diseases Symposium: An Update on Disease Mechanisms and Management, to be held on Saturday, September 9, 2023, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center, 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM.  Glomerular diseases are a well-recognized cause of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal […]