John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
WashU Nephrology is proud to have six of our outstanding physicians selected for the 2024 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® list for excellence in medicine. Daniel W. Coyne, MD, Patricia F. Kao, MD, MS, Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, Marcos Rothstein, MD, Paul Scheel Jr., MD, MBA, and Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN (now at Intermountain Health in […]
Two years ago, Dr. Anitha Vijayan, Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, became part of a collaborative effort of the ASN and CDC to eliminate infections in dialysis facilities – an initiative meant to be attained within three years. Now, two-thirds of the way into the project, Dr. Vijayan reports that, “It is going well! […]
“Serving the population where they live” is the impetus behind the new Washington University dialysis facility about to open in North St. Louis County, according to Dr. Marcos Rothstein, Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, and one of the initial advocates of the project. “Missouri has over 9,000 patients undergoing dialysis, and that puts our state in […]
Garland Patton, a dialysis patient in the Chromalloy Kidney Center at Washington University, and a group of more than 50 family and friends, turned out for the annual St. Louis National Kidney Foundation (NKF)-sponsored Kidney Walk held April 29, 2017. This was the fifth year in a row that the Patton group took part in the […]
The second annual KIDNEYcon, an event that focuses on the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease, will be held April 7-8, 2017, in Little Rock, AR. The mission of the two-day educational conference is to promote research collaboration between academic and private nephrologists, and to excite residents and fellows about careers […]