WashU Nephrology is excited to welcome Mahmoud M. Musa, MD, as our 2025 renal transplant fellow. Our comprehensive, one-year Transplant Nephrology Program, which is dually accredited by American Society of Transplantation (ATS) and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), offers trainees the opportunity to be part of one of the largest and most experienced kidney transplant centers in […]
The fourth National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Annual Fellows Renal Roundtable, will be held Thursday, December 5, 2024, 5:00 – 7:30 PM, at the Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel, 191 Westport Plaza, St. Louis, MO, 63146. The professional education and networking event is a collaboration of WashU and SSM Health Saint Louis University (SLU) nephrology programs. Renal fellows […]
Pregnant women with kidney problems face high risks for complications affecting both themselves and their unborn child. In 2022, Kelli King-Morris, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, founded the Maternal Fetal Medicine Nephrology Clinic at WashU Nephrology to optimize the care of these patients. The clinic, which incorporates aggressive monitoring and more frequent dialysis, has successfully […]
WashU Nephrology celebrated our FY23-24 Length of Service awardees at a luncheon in the Chromalloy Conference Room on June 25, 2024. Certificates were handed out to 21 individuals marking 5 to 40 years of service in our Division. (Offsite locations – North County and Forest Park Kidney Center – will have length of service luncheons […]
The Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is seeking to hire a full-time Clinician-Educator Nephrologist at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The selected candidate will join a thriving Division under the leadership of the Director of Nephrology, Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in […]
WashU Nephrology is pleased to announce that Maranda Watts, RN, has joined our Outpatient Department as the new Clinical Nurse Coordinator. Maranda earned her nursing degree from St. Louis Community College – Forest Park in 2014 and worked at DaVita Dialysis before coming to WashU Nephrology in 2018, where she served as Clinical Nurse Coordinator […]
It was a happy homecoming for the North County Dialysis Center team in Florissant, MO, when they saw one of their patients, Christina Miles, come through the doors carrying her baby, Orlando Christopher Dean. “I can’t believe how beautiful he is!” said Gena Hubbard, CCHT, a certified clinical hemodialysis technician, as she cooed over the […]
“Lisa is a true angel and always goes above and beyond to help her patients.” That is how “Sam,” a dialysis patient, describes nurse practitioner Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, ANP, CNN-NP, in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Humphreys, Chief of the Division of Nephrology, to express her appreciation for the special attention Lisa has shown her. Sam has been […]
It’s one thing for an employee to be recognized for her dedication and 20 years of hard work. It’s another thing for an employee to have a whole day named after her! Thomas Gowen, the Nurse Manager of WashU Nephrology’s North County Dialysis Center said that Friday, August 19, 2022, everyone at the center celebrated Tandy Day, […]
WashU Nephrology welcomes Alex Stark-Valdez, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, who joined the Division as a dialysis Nurse Practitioner. “Everyone has been so warm and welcoming,” says Alex. “It’s been absolutely wonderful and I’m so happy that I chose this position as my first real nurse practitioner position.” In his 12 years of nursing, Alex brings with […]