WashU Nephrology Working Behind the Scenes – from Home

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 […]

#nephSTRONG – WashU Division of Nephrology – Better Together

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. […]

Generosity is Contagious – and Global

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 […]

Focus on Mary Hoffmann: On the Frontline of Patient Care

Mary Hoffmann recognized early in life the special calling of those who care for patients. “At the age of 14, I worked as a candy striper – a volunteer nurse’s aide – at Jewish Hospital for the summer,” says Mary, now an Inpatient Renal Coordinator in the Chromalloy Dialysis Center. “I was only able to […]

Young Man’s Music is Good for the Body and the Soul

Chase Cofer remembers the day he experienced the first symptom. It was a day like any other, with Chase and his sister spending time with their cousins. Chase hadn’t noticed anything was wrong – but his sister did. She pointed out that his arm had been in a fixed, bent position for the entire day. […]