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Please join Jeffrey Miner, PhD, and members of his lab this Wednesday for the latest in the series of Alport online workshops.  Hosted by Alport UK, the Zoom event will be held June 24, 2020, at 11:30 Central Daylight Time (5:30 pm British Summer Time). Dr. Miner, Professor of Medicine, WashU Nephrology, is an internationally […]

The Division of Nephrology’s 2020 Translational Innovation grant of $50,000 has been awarded to Sanjay Jain, MD, PhD, and Tingting Li, MD, MSCI.  Their project focuses on developing methods for single nucleus transcriptomic studies on archived diagnostic frozen kidney biopsy tissue from patients with pauci-immune glomerulonephritis (PIGN).  WashU Nephrology’s Translational Grant program has been offered […]

WashU Nephrology congratulates Paul Roberson, Chromalloy Kidney Center’s new manager of technical services for dialysis operation, as we also wish a happy retirement to Patrick (Rick) Hasamear.  Roberson has worked at Chromalloy for 37 years and is taking the helm from Hasamear, who is a 35-year Chromalloy veteran. Paul Roberson has an associate in applied […]

Business as Usual While healthcare workers on the front line have gotten much-deserved attention as they care forpatients during the COVID-19 crisis, there are also many WashU Nephrology members who are working hard behind the scenes to keep the division up and running. Barbara Schmaltz, BSN, RN, nurse manager of the Renal Outpatient Office, and […]

From telemedicine to video conferencing to interviews, remote conference tools have been so useful and favorably received since the COVID-19 shutdown that they may just end up being part of our “new normal” long after the crisis has passed. Virtual conference tools have helped members of WashU Nephrology keep connected to not only our patients, […]

2020 will certainly be a year our fellows will remember. The WashU Nephrology fellowship training program provides a strong clinical training and research experience for our fellows during their time with us.  The fellows see patients in Barnes-Jewish Hospital (including the ICUs), attend to patients undergoing dialysis at Chromalloy Kidney Center, monitor the home modalities […]

While in-center dialysis units have made major changes in their daily protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic, the care of patients undergoing home dialysis modalities has also undergone a significant adjustment. “The COVID-19 pandemic instantly taught us the utility of telehealth in patient care,” says Anubha Mutneja, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Nephrology and […]

New Routines “I can hear the staff on the floor laughing and joking today … so it is a good day!” says Tom Gowen, RN, nurse manager of Washington University’s North County Dialysis Center, when asked how the dialysis unit was adapting  to the COVID-19 crisis.  While it cannot be overstated how much has changed […]

As a gesture of appreciation for how everyone has pulled together during the COVID-19 pandemic, WashU Nephrology is distributing #nephSTRONG t-shirts to its 180 faculty, staff and trainees. The t-shirts are compliments of an anonymous donor and were designed by children of two WashU Nephrology faculty members.  Dr. Anitha Vijayan’s daughter, Maya Menon, and Dr. […]

Being Prepared Even before the first COVID-19 positive patient was identified in the St. Louis area, the Division of Nephrology was preparing for the coming crisis knowing that it would be a matter of when it would happen, not if it would happen. The Division had a unified goal: continue to deliver superb clinical care […]

Colleague to Colleague to Friend Jason Mills, MD, PhD, Washington University Division of Gastroenterology, has generously donated 600 high quality surgical masks to his good friend Sanjay Jain, MD, PhD, here in the Division of Nephrology.  Dr. Mills was passing on the gift of the much-needed PPE that he himself had received from an overseas […]

We hope for the best, but we also need to prepare for every eventuality. Laura Kipper, a WashU Nephrology transplant administrative coordinator, and Karen Kirk, a nurse at Forest Park Dialysis Center, are doing just that as they help fight the spread of COVID-19 and support our healthcare workers by sewing cloth facial masks in […]

Congratulations to the Cool Beans team, who raised over $8095 for the National Kidney Foundation annual St. Louis Kidney Walk 2020, 134% of their goal of $6000, and kudos to Jane Hughes, transplant coordinator and co-captain of the team, who was the third highest individual donor, raising $2025.   The Cool Beans Team is a merger […]

Collaborators Moe Mahjoub, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Division of Nephrology), Cell Biology and Physiology, Susan Dutcher, PhD, professor of genetics, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Steven Brody, MD, the Dorothy R. and Hubert C. Moog Professor of Pulmonary Medicine have received a four-year, $3.14 million RO1 renewal grant from the National Heart, Lung, and […]

Generosity A huge shout-out and thank you goes to local business owner Paul Hamilton, who generously donated supplies to WashU Nephrology dialysis centers this past weekend.   Hamilton, the owner and operator of Hamilton Hospitality, a multi-concept restaurant group, donated nitrile gloves as well as hydrogen peroxide and bottles of 91% alcohol.  According to Hamilton, “You […]