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Every month, an average of seven patients from the Chromalloy Kidney Center are admitted to the hospital for non-adherence type admissions, such as uncontrolled hypertension, fluid overload and hyperkalemia. Improving adherence will reduce the number of hospital admissions and in the process decrease the standardized re-admission ratio, which was 1.2 in 2015 (with a benchmark […]

Congratulations to the team of Connie Mayo RN, Michelle Bloom RN, Lois Seibel RN, Cheryl Land RN, Vicky Stringer LCSW, and Will Ross, M.D, who have been awarded a Renal Staff Microgrant to continue work originally funded in December 2015. The grant will ensure continued education and the availability of digital home blood pressure monitors […]

The development of new treatments, strategies or devices that improve patient care relies heavily on clinical research. A Renal Staff Microgrant has been award to a team who will use web-based communication to educate patients about clinical research and provide information on current clinical studies that are actively enrolling patients. Team members include Jean Audrain […]

The division is saying farewell to transplant nephrologist Thin Thin Maw, MBBS, MS. Thin Thin is joining the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine where she will be performing both general and transplant nephrology services as an assistant professor. “It has been a wonderful two and […]

Assistant Professors of Medicine Moe Mahjoub, PhD and Seth Goldberg, MD, are recipients of the 2016 Translational Innovation Grant, awarded by Division of Nephrology in the sum of $50,000. The winning proposal, entitled Midbody Accumulation and Secretion in Polycystic Kidney Disease, aims to define how defects in components of the cell cytoskeleton contribute to the […]

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tarek Alhamad, MD, MS, FACP, FASN, Transplant Nephrology, has been awarded a grant from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. The investigator-initiated project is entitled Efficacy of Acthar in Recurrent Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis after Kidney Transplantation. “Recurrence of primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) after kidney transplantation remains a frequent medical challenge,” says Dr. Alhamad. “Around […]

The division would like to wish all the best to Staff Scientist Piyush Tripathi as he leaves Washington University to take a position at Biomedical Systems here in St. Louis. Piyush was with the Chen Laboratory for five years as a postdoctoral fellow and four years as a Staff Scientist. Piyush says that he is […]

Meet Timothy Yau: Husband, Father, Nephrologist, Medicine Coursemaster, Teaching Award Winner, Musician, Videographer, and Social Media Mogul. Ok, that last one might be an exaggeration for now, but give him time. Dr. Yau, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Nephrology, has just been appointed Social Media Editor for the American Journal for Kidney Diseases blog site […]

Shout-outs of “Congratulations, Betty!” and “30 years!” greet Betty Douglas as she walks into the Chromalloy American Kidney Center at Washington University on December 28, 2016. Pushing the small walker that holds the bright red blanket she uses to keep the chill away during dialysis, she makes her way to the scales, weighs herself, and […]

It didn’t take more than two minutes for the first shout of Bingo! to ring through the Chromalloy American Kidney Center at WashU. The yearly Bingo event was held at all three dialysis shifts, 7:45 am, 10:45 am, and 2 pm, on December 21 and 22, 2016. “This is a once-a-year event that the patients […]

Joseph Gaut, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology, is a busy man. Being the only pathologist with specialized expertise in renal pathology here at WashU, Dr. Gaut signs out every kidney biopsy that comes through the division. This includes all medical biopsies, all transplant biopsies from Barnes-Jewish and Children’s Hospitals and biopsies sent in […]

Congratulations are in order for two young investigators in the Division of Nephrology who have been awarded AWRP Summer 2016 Scientist Development Grants from the American Heart Association (AHA). These grants are intended to help promising, beginning scientists bridge the gap from completion of their research training to becoming an independent investigator. Yong-Feng Gong, PhD, […]

The Division of Nephrology would like to wish Vicky Stringer, L.C.S. W., all the best in her retirement. Vicky has been both a dialysis center social worker and renal clinic social worker over the 24 years that she has been with the division. Vicky has served on the board of the National Kidney Foundation for […]

In an advance online publication in Nature Reviews Nephrology, Monica Chang-Panesso, MD, and Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, Chief, Division of Nephrology, present an in-depth review of recent advances in the role of cellular plasticity in kidney regeneration and repair after injury. While it was once thought that mature, adult cells remained terminally differentiated, it is […]

An ambitious – and exciting – initiative that will challenge the dialysis community to rethink how infections are detected, reported, and managed is being launched by a collaboration between the ASN and the CDC. Anitha Vijayan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, is co-chair of one of the work groups of the Nephrologists Transforming […]