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  • Community practice and academic health care professionals joined together at the 33rd annual meeting of the Glomerular Disease Collaborative Network (GDCN) on Saturday, May 4, in Chapel Hill. The guest speaker Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, professor of medicine and director of nephrology clinical services at Columbia University Medical Center.

  • Dr. Koyal Jain and Dr. Keisha Gibson

    Jain and Gibson receive Foundation Phase Teaching Excellence Awards

    Koyal Jain, MD, FASN, and Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH The 黑料网 Academy of Educators (AOE) held its annual Alan W. Cross Evening of Scholarship on May 23, an event that celebrated the accomplishments of the previous year, welcomed new members and awarded outstanding educators in the community. Koyal Jain, MD, FASN, and Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH, both received a Foundation Phase Teaching Ex … Read more

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    Dr. Keisha Gibson is Featured ‘Woman of the Triangle’ on WRAL.com

    Dr. Keisha Gibson, chief of pediatric nephrology, has been featured in WRAL.com’s Women of the Triangle series, recognized for how she promotes diversity and inclusivity in medicine and life. Dr. Keisha Gibson (Credit: Rochelle Moser) Gibson, who is associate professor of medicine and pediatrics, and director of the pediatric nephrology fellowship program, explains in the article … Read more

  • J. Charles Jennette, MD

    Jennette Receives Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Pathology Chairs

    J. Charles Jennette, MD, the Kenneth M. Brinkhous Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Medicine, and Chief of Pathology and 黑料网 Laboratory Medicine Services, has been selected to receive the 2019 Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Pathology Chairs (APC).

  • Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, MD, MPH-iron-dose-in-dialysis

    Kshirsagar Receives Marion Stedman Covington Distinguished Professorship

    Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology, has been awarded the Marion Stedman Covington Distinguished Professorship.

  • Monica Reynolds, MD

    Nephrology Study Shows Need for More Training in Women’s Health

    Clinical instructor Monica Reynolds, MD, presented research at ASN Kidney Week that shows nephrologists often lack confidence in managing women’s health issues that may be related to kidney disease. The study was one of only a few selected from thousands, for special release during ASN Kidney Week, the premier US and international clinical and scientific meeting focused on kidney … Read more

  • Amy Mottl, MD, MPH, FASN

    ASN鈥檚 Kidney Week 2018 Selects Dr. Amy Mottl鈥檚 Paper for 鈥淏est of鈥� Session

    Mottl’s research suggests aggressive treatment of blood pressure and cholesterol may result in poor kidney outcomes in some patients with type 2 diabetes.

  • Department of Medicine Divisions Rank Nationally in US News and World Report

    Three medicine divisions have been recognized in the “Best Hospitals” ranking from the US News and World Report.

  • Erica Bjornstad Studies Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury in Malawi

    New diagnostic tests could offer a quicker diagnosis for impaired kidney function, for not only people in Africa, but in other places with limited resources, as well as disaster events like hurricanes and earthquakes that affect people around the world.

  • Ron Falk, MD, Participates in Time-Honored Tradition of Case Method Teaching at Massachusetts General Hospital

    Department of medicine chair, Dr. Ron Falk recently participated in the case record series at Massachusetts General Hospital. His case record is published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

  • March is Kidney Awareness Month

    March is Kidney Awareness Month–the time to highlight a disease that affects more than 30 million Americans. It鈥檚 important to know the risk factors of chronic kidney disease, like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and family history of kidney disease, among others. Kidney disease can also be caused by glomerular diseases, autoimmune disease, or can be a genetic disea … Read more

  • Jennifer Flythe, MD, MPH, and Terence Oliver collaborated.

    黑料网 Kidney Center Video Strives to Increase Research Readiness

    A recent dialysis research study shows many aspects of research can be improved to encourage broader patient participation and better align research and clinical processes in clinics. A product of the study is a new video tool that features actual participants in animation.