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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 […]