Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM Location: Pinn Hall auditorium 1-5 Cost: Free
Dr. Karen Warburton is Associate Professor of Medicine in the UVA Division of Nephrology. Read more...
Nephrology Chief Mark Okusa Elected President of the American Society of Nephrology
November 6, 2017 by
Okusa will lead an organization of nearly 17,000 health professionals dedicated to leading the fight against kidney diseases
ASN media release – 11/4/17
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is pleased to announce that Mark D. Read more...
UVA Amherst Dialysis Team Gets Creative in Engaging Patients
November 1, 2017 by
(l-r) Krystal Dalrymple, RN, and Michelle Haynes, Patient Advocate
UVA ConnectBy Kelly Casey (10/16/17)
Bingo? Christmas shopping? These don’t sound like activities you’d find at an outpatient dialysis facility. But the UVA Amherst Dialysis team has made them part of a successful yearlong effort to engage and educate patients. Read more...
UVA Ranked No. 1 Hospital in Virginia, With Cancer, Endocrinology, and Cardiology in Top 50
September 2, 2017 by
The 2017-18 U.S. News and World Report “Best Hospitals” guide rated UVA Medical Center as the No. 1 hospital in Virginia, and honored 11 specialties at UVA — including five in the Department of Medicine — as among the best in the U.S. Read more...
7 DOM Faculty Members Complete SOM’s Junior Faculty Development Program
May 2, 2017 by
The School of Medicine’s Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) is designed to provide networking opportunities and peer mentoring among colleagues at a similar stage in their careers. It promotes development and advancement of junior faculty through twice-monthly seminars and mentored scholarly projects. Read more...
UVA Nephrology and Pharmacology Team Publish Paper in Nature Neuroscience
April 21, 2017 by
(l-r) Mark Okusa, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Patrice Guyenet, Chikara Abe, Ruth Stornetta and Diane Rosin.
The Okusa research lab, together with colleagues from the Department of Pharmacology — including faculty members Patrice Guyenet and Diane Rosin and former postoc Chikara Abe — published a paper in Nature Neuroscience in March (on-line, ahead of print). Read more...
Nephrology Fellow Itunu Owoyemi, MBBS
April 13, 2017 by
Itunu (far left, 2nd row) with her parents and 7 siblings.
I grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, with my seven siblings. My parents are my greatest mentors. I don’t know how they did it, but they were very open to family and friends staying at the house for sleepovers. Read more...
Nephrology Fellows at March Mid-Atlantic Young Investigator Forum
April 12, 2017 by
From Nephrology division chief Mark Okusa: “The Mid-Atlantic Young Investigator Forum was held in Baltimore on March 21, co-chaired by Michael Choi of Johns Hopkins and UVA’s Thu Le. This is a forum where young investigators (fellows, postdocs, students) in the mid-Atlantic region present their research to colleagues and a panel of distinguished judges. Read more...
Meet Karen Warburton and Alden Doyle, Recent Additions to the Nephrology Faculty
April 12, 2017 by
Last fall, the UVA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program added two transplant nephrologists to its team. Spouses Karen Warburton, MD, and Alden Doyle, MD, increase the size of the program by 50 percent.Warburton, whose specialization includes living donor kidney transplants, joined the UVA Division of Nephrology from the University of Pennsylvania. Read more...
Nephrology Postdoc Tsuyoshi Inoue
April 12, 2017 by
(l-r) Mark Okusa, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Patrice Guyenet, Chikara Abe, Ruth Stornetta and Diane Rosin.
Tsuyoshi Inoue, MD, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Okusa, chief of the Division of Nephrology. Read more...
