Educational Programs

The 2013 Research Seminar Series will occur monthly with both local and invited speakers. These will occur on the first Tuesday of each month at 1:15 pm in the Woodward Conference Room. These will be co-sponsored by the department of medicine and the department of physiology and open to all investigators. In addition, there will be an annual one day symposium with six to eight covering a broad discipline in both physiology, genetics, and molecular physiology of hypertension.

2013 Seminar Series

Mid-Atlantic O’Brien Kidney Center Seminar Series 2013

(Seminars begin at 1:15 PM) 

Jan 15: Sodium Storage in Hemodialysis Patients Phillip Hartle, MD Vanderbilt
Jan 22: Rare Mutations in Renal Salt Transport Genes Protect against the development of Hypertension Paul Welling, MD UMSOM
Mar 3: Dopamine D2 receptors and Renal Inflammation Ines Armando, PhD UMSOM
Mar 19: Novel Mechanisms of Salt SensitivityMatthew Weir, MD UMSOM
April 9: The dark side of sodium restriction Afshin Parsa, MD, MPH UMSOM
April 30: Sorting nexin, sodium handling and Blood Pressure Van Villar, PhD UMSOM
June 11: TBD
July 9: TBD
August 13: TBD
September 10: TBD
October 8: TBD
November 12: TBD
December 10: TBD

These seminars will be taped as well as be available for video conferencing to outside institutions.

Other NIDDK Research & Education Centers

Mid-Atlantic Nutrition Obesity Research Center
Director: Alan R. Shuldiner, MD 

The Baltimore Polycystic Kidney Disease Research and Clinical Care Center
Director: Terry Watnick, MD