John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
The Division of Nephrology is proud to welcome five new fellows for 2017. We look forward to getting to know each of them in the following months. Fizza Abbas, MD, earned her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. […]
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF)-sponsored Kidney Walk is the nation’s largest walking event to raise funds and promote awareness of kidney disease. Walks have been held in over 100 communities, with more than 85,000 participants. This year’s local Kidney Walk will be held April 29, 2017, at Saint Louis University. The Kidney Walk is not […]
Timothy Yau, MD and Assistant Professor of Medicine, will once again chair the Nephrology Update for Primary Care Providers Course to be held March 25, 2017, at the Eric P Newman Education Center (EPNEC). The Division of Nephrology at Washington University and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) are co-sponsoring the event, which provides an in-depth […]
A case report by a team of Washington University nephrologists and pathologists from Arkana Laboratories may prove valuable in directing future treatment of Castleman’s Disease (CD) with renal involvement. The report, published in the journal BMC Nephrology, describes a patient presenting with a very rare, aggressive form of multicentric CD with renal thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). […]
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tarek Alhamad, MD, MS, FACP, FASN, Transplant Nephrology, has been awarded a grant from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. The investigator-initiated project is entitled Efficacy of Acthar in Recurrent Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis after Kidney Transplantation. “Recurrence of primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) after kidney transplantation remains a frequent medical challenge,” says Dr. Alhamad. “Around […]
The American Society of Nephrology will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year at ASN Kidney Week, November 14-20, 2016, in Chicago, IL. As part of the celebration, the society will recognize all award recipients from the last half-century. Among those to be honored are two members of our division, Jeffrey Miner, PhD, FASN, Professor of […]
Dan Brennan, MD, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Renal Diseases, likens the fight against viruses in the kidney transplant patient to a mythological battle. “Just when we think we are beginning to understand one of these viruses, when we have cut off one of the heads of the viral Hydra, then two […]
Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology will be a featured speaker at the 2nd International Symposium Protease World in Health and Disease, Sept. 14-17, 2016, in Kiel, Germany. The symposium, entitled Proteolysis as a Regulatory Event in Pathophysiology is organized by the Collaborative Research Center 877, which focuses on […]