Division of Nephrology
Division Head: Matthew R. Weir, MD
Clinical Programs
The clinical programs of the division encompass early and advanced chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, dialysis and transplantation. From research bench to bedside, discoveries made in our division labs are put into practice at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), which was ranked No. 24 among the nation's top 50 hospitals in the Kidney Disease category on the 2005 U.S. News & World Report list of America's Best Hospitals.
The organ transplant service at UMMC is a large clinical responsibility for our division. More than 3,500 patients have received either kidney or pancreas transplants in the past ten years through the UMMC transplant program.
Our division is also responsible for supervising the clinical care of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in four different dialysis units: the Parkview Center, the Chestnut Center, the Deaton Center and the in-patient acute hospital unit at UMMC. The two largest are the Parkview Center and the Chestnut Center, which both have large hemodialysis programs. There is also a CAPD (Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis) program at the Parkview Center. Approximately 250 patients are chronically managed in these four different ESRD programs.
Education
Faculty members work diligently developing the renal core curriculum for medical students and strive to maintain small group instruction with particular emphasis on the clinical correlation of basic science and clinical care.
Within the Department of Medicine, we currently provide attending service coverage nine months a year and regularly instruct the house staff on all forms of kidney disease and acid-base disorders, as well as critical care management for patients with end-stage renal disease.
The nephrology fellowship-training program has been expanded from a two-year clinical training program in order to incorporate additional training in research. The educational program includes three conferences per week, highlighting different aspects of clinical care, research and journal reviews. There are currently five fellows in the program. Never has a fellow in our division not passed the boards on his/her first attempt. Because of the quality of our program, entry is very competitive, with more than 200 applicants competing last year for these five positions.
The Division has markedly expanded its research enterprise. Currently we have an excess of $4.1 million in active research contracts with the government and industry.
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Division Faculty
Briglia, Andrew E., DO
Cangro, Charles B, MD, PhD
Cunningham, Rochelle M., MD
Dinits-Pensy, Mara Y., MD
Fink, Jeffrey C., MD
Hanes, Donna S., MD
Haririan, Abdolreza, MD
Hise, Michael K., MD
Jones-Burton, Charlotte, MD
Klassen, David K., MD
Kwon, H. Moo, PhD
Kwon, Whaseon, PhD
Light, Paul D., MD
Nogueira, Joseph M., MD
Pallone, Thomas L., MD
Salzberg, Daniel J., MD
Seliger, Stephen L., MD, MS
Steplock, Deborah A., MS
Wali, Ravinder K., MD
Weinman, Edward J., MD
Weir, Matthew R., MD
Zhang, Zhong, MD, PhD
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