John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
The opening of the new Kidney Transplant Clinic at the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System is a valuable resource – and a huge convenience – for local veterans. Headed by Anuja Java, MD, Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine, the clinic is for patients who have received a kidney […]
The 7th annual NephMadness is under way! NephMadness, hosted by AJKD Blog, is an online interactive medical education activity modeled on March Madness, the NCAA college basketball tournament, except with nephrology concepts. Using social media, interactivity, and gamification, the nearly month-long tournament encourages a good-natured, robust discussion of the latest advances and the most important […]
The WU/Barnes-Jewish Transplant Center hit a high mark on January 4, 2019, one that has been achieved by fewer than 5% of transplant programs nationwide. The center performed its 10,000th adult solid organ transplant in the past 56 years. That landmark transplant was a kidney. “It is a major milestone of our transplant center,” says […]
Assistant Professor of Medicine Anuja Java, MD, Division of Nephrology, recently attended the 27th International Complement Society meeting held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to present her work titled, A comprehensive analysis of complement factor I variants in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS). The largest and oldest complement conference hosts researchers, physicians, clinicians and others familiar […]
The Renal Biopsy Service, a new in-house program, is nearly ready to launch. Assistant Professor of Medicine Fadi Tohme, MD, who holds dual appointments in the Division of Nephrology and the Division of Anesthesiology, will be director of the service. The new program, in which our own nephrologists will perform ultrasound-guided kidney biopsies, will be […]