John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
The Division of Nephrology gives a warm welcome to Betty Jean Smith (she prefers Jean), who joins us as Special Project Administrator. Jean has worked at Washington University for 20 years. She was is Alumni Relations for seven years before transferring to the Department of Orthopedic Research, where she was the Administrative Coordinator for the […]
Hard work and perseverance have paid off for the Sister Renal Center (SRC) pair of the Division of Nephrology at Washington University and the Guatemala Social Security Institute (IGSS) Renal Division. The two nephrology centers were upgraded to an A-level status in the SRC program on January 1, 2019. The SRC is a program of […]
The Division of Nephrology’s 2019 Translational Innovation Grant has been awarded to Instructor of Medicine Eirini Kefalogianni, PhD, and Assistant Professor of Medicine Charbel C. Khoury, MD, in the sum of $50,000. The Translational Innovation Grant program, now in its fourth year, brings together a basic scientist and a clinician from within the division to collaborative on a project that […]
The Division of Nephrology is now accepting applications for the 2019 Clinical Innovation Grant, a new funding program that will provide resources for clinical research projects within the division. Successful proposals will feature a well-crafted plan for a clinical research project involving patients or patient records. While applications from a single principal investigator (PI) will […]
Congratulations to Jeffrey Miner, PhD, JASN, who was recently elected President-elect of the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB) for 2019-2020. He will serve as president from 2021-2022. Dr. Miner is Professor of Medicine and Director of Basic Research in the Division of Nephrology and Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School […]
Chryslina “Lin” Schlichter uses more than her technical training to help her patients. She uses her talent as an artist to bring joy to their lives. A Dialysis Technician II at the Washington University Dialysis Center at Forest Park, Lin is a skilled painter who is known to give away the fruit of her labor […]
The Renal Biopsy Service, a new in-house program, is nearly ready to launch. Assistant Professor of Medicine Fadi Tohme, MD, who holds dual appointments in the Division of Nephrology and the Division of Anesthesiology, will be director of the service. The new program, in which our own nephrologists will perform ultrasound-guided kidney biopsies, will be […]
Assistant Professor of Medicine Timothy Yau wants to tell you a good story. Yau is branching out from the usual clinical and pathology discussions found in his award-winning Washington University Nephrology Web Video Series in order to emphasize some of the incredible things that have happened in the field of nephrology over the course of […]
Professor of Medicine Jeffrey Miner, Division of Nephrology, was proud to witness his Washington University postdoc mentor, Dr. Joshua R. Sanes, receive the 2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2017 (sfn17) in Washington DC, November 11-15. This award, funded by the Gruber Foundation at Yale University, honors scientists […]
RoseMarie Bianchi, a dialysis patient at Chromalloy Dialysis Center and co-founder of The Sick and Elderly Program of the Hill, is getting ready for the foundation’s annual fundraiser – a big, Italian, ravioli dinner. The Sick and Elderly Program of The Hill is a volunteer home health care foundation that provides free medical equipment and […]