John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
“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 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 […]
Several members of WashU Nephrology will participate in the upcoming National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM). The annual meeting presents the latest insights into chronic kidney disease care and is the only conference of its kind that is designed for all members of the kidney health team. The event will be held April […]
It’s not too late to register for the National Kidney Foundation Fellows Renal Roundtable, to be held Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 5:45 – 7:30 PM CST. The professional education and networking event is a collaboration of Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and the University of Missouri School of Medicine. […]
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has invited WashU Nephrology nurse practitioner Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, ANP, CNN-NP, to serve on their Kidney Week Education Committee for the 2022-2023 meetings. The committee is responsible for the meeting’s program content, primarily sessions and abstracts. Koester-Wiedemann was invited to serve because of her expertise in clinical dialysis. As renal […]
WashU Nephrology members Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, MSN, CS, CNN-NP, Marcos Rothstein, MD, Frank O’Brien, MD, and George Jarad, MD, are part of the Annual Dialysis Conference (ADC) program being held this weekend, March 4-6, 2022. Now in its 42nd year, the ADC hosts the world’s largest multidisciplinary conference on dialysis. Sponsored by the University of Missouri […]
The Division of Nephrology is proud to announce that Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, ANP, CNN-NP, received the prestigious Dean’s Distinguished Service Award for 2020. The award is the highest form of staff recognition at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Recipients of the award are nominated by their colleagues and are selected for “displaying ongoing […]
“We felt it was very important to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to the dialysis units for our patients,” says WashU nephrologist Anitha Vijayan about the recent undertaking to administer the vaccine to patients on dialysis. Although patients with end-stage kidney disease are a highly vulnerable population for complications from COVID-19 infection, many have limited resources […]
Congratulations to Manasa Metireddy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, who is the recipient of a Project Award from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Dr. Metireddy received the three-year, $419,377 award to study transitional care for dialysis patients. Patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) face challenges in the early months of initiating […]
While choosing home dialysis is becoming more attractive and feasible for patients who begin dialysis each year to treat end-stage renal disease (ESRD), only 10% of the 726,000 Americans suffering from the disease are currently on peritoneal or home hemodialysis. This is far below the goal of the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative (AAKH), an […]