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Jeffry Miner, PhD, was recently named the inaugural Eduardo and Judith Slatopolsky Endowed Professor of Medicine in Nephrology.    A virtual celebration was held April 2, 2021.  Dr. Victoria Fraser, Chair, Department of Medicine, and Dr. Benjamin Humphreys, Chief, Division of Nephrology at Washington University, hosted the event with many family, friends and colleagues in attendance.  […]

Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine and Chief, Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected to serve as Vice-President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).  The ASCI, founded in 1908, is one of the oldest and most esteemed nonprofit […]

WashU Nephrology congratulates Associate Professor of Medicine Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, who received a four-year, $660,000 VA Merit Award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that will fund his work on “Remote Injury Responses after Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).” The VA Merit Award, equal in standing to an R01 grant from the National Institutes […]

March is National Kidney Month, a time to highlight kidney health and encourage people to support kidney disease research and take steps to keep their own kidneys safe and healthy.  Great Day St Louis, KMOV TV Channel 4, interviewed WashU Nephrology faculty member James Davis, MD, FACP, FASN, to discuss the focus of this year’s […]

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and blogs are abuzz with discussion of eight topics that make up the brackets for this year’s NephMadness educational competition.    This is the 9th year of the program created by the team at AJKD Blog, the official blog of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.  It is modeled on March Madness, […]

The Division of Nephrology is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Miner has been named the inaugural Eduardo and Judith Slatopolsky Endowed Professor of Medicine in Nephrology.  Miner also serves as Director of Basic Research for the Division. Miner is an international leader in basement membrane biology and how basement membranes are involved in kidney function […]

“We felt it was very important to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to the dialysis units for our patients,” says WashU nephrologist Anitha Vijayan about the recent undertaking to administer the vaccine to patients on dialysis.  Although patients with end-stage kidney disease are a highly vulnerable population for complications from COVID-19 infection, many have limited resources […]

Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, was the invited Jerry Jackson Lecturer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, where she discussed “Hybrid Renal Replacement Therapy Modalities in the Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).”  Vijayan, Medical Director of Acute Dialysis Services, oversees the renal replacement therapy program in the intensive care units at Barnes-Jewish […]

WashU Nephrology members Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, MSN, CS, CNN-NP, Shawna McMichael, BSN, RN, and Cheryl Cress, RN, CNN, are presenting at the Annual Dialysis Conference (ADC), being held this weekend, March 5-7, 2021.   ADC, now in its 41st year, hosts an international group of physicians, nurses, technicians, dieticians, social workers, administrators, and representatives from a […]

Will Ross, MD, MPH, Associate Dean for Diversity and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine, recently discussed various aspects of the COVID-19 vaccine in a BJC HealthCare YouTube presentation.  Ross addresses concerns about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and encourages everyone to “get behind” the […]

Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine and Chief, Division of Nephrology, has been invited to join the NIDDK Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC).  Made up of accomplished senior researchers from NIDDK-funded universities and institutions, the BSC review panel evaluates independently resourced scientists in the NIDDK Intramural Research Program (IRP). […]

April King is WashU Nephrology’s new Manager of Financial Operations for our dialysis centers as Jamie Hager retires.

Washington University Division of Nephrology faculty members Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, Professor of Medicine, have been chosen to serve on multiple American Society of Nephrology (ASN) committees. Dr. Li is serving on the Publications Committee through 2022. The committee oversees current and future ASN publishing enterprises, […]

Aubrey Morrison, MBBS, MACP, FASN, Professor Emeritus, Division of Nephrology, is the recipient of the 2020 Barnes-Jewish Hospital medical staff association Lifetime Achievement Award. Only physicians who have contributed 25 years or more of distinguished service to BJH are considered for the award.  Morrison retired from the Division of Nephrology in October 2020, having been […]

Congratulations to Manasa Metireddy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, who is the recipient of a Project Award from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital.  Dr. Metireddy received the three-year, $419,377 award to study transitional care for dialysis patients.  Patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) face challenges in the early months of initiating […]