Division News

Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, today announced that Myles Wolf, MD, MMSc, will assume the role of Chief of the Division of Nephrology, effective August 1, 2016.

Steven Crowley, MD, associate professor of medicine (Nephrology), will present his research at the Department's Research Seminar Series on Friday, March 26, 2016 in Duke Hospital Room 2002.

The Duke O’Brien Center for Kidney Research (DOCK) is funding up to three Pilot & Feasibility (P&F) Projects for the 2016-17 academic year.  

The School of Medicine Office for Faculty Development announced the inaugural participants in its ALICE program, a new leadership development opportunity for mid-career women faculty.

So before you even get to John Stanifer and his current American Kidney Fund (AKF) Clinical Scientist in Nephrology Fellowship at the Duke Department of Medicine, before you get to the many publications he already has about his work in Tanzania, before you get to his current work with the Lumbee people of eastern North Carolina, before you get to his commitment to mentoring those who come behind him while he is himself barely coming up, just absorb that.

When he went to Tanzania he learned a language that not even the native children learn.

Matthew Sparks, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology), will present "Can Social Media Become Scholarship? Building Networks and Sharing Information" at Duke Radiology Grand Rounds on Thur., Jan. 21.

The presentation begins at 7:30 a.m. in Duke North Room 2002. All are invited to attend.

The Duke CTSA-sponsored KL2 Career Development Award Program has selected three new scholars to receive three years of funding and education to learn state-of-the-art clinical and translational research methods. The three new scholars are:

The Department of Medicine will be well-represented at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week 2015 in San Diego Nov. 3-8.

Clarissa Jonas Diamantidis, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine and Nephrology), started her residency at Duke focused on cardiology.

“My father was a Black-Hispanic cardiologist with an interest in health disparities and access to care,” she says, “and I was intent on following in his footsteps.”

However, during nephrology rounds she became fascinated with kidney disease. Her first visit to a dialysis unit sealed the deal: “It was full of black patients hooked up to ominous-looking machines, with a striking deficiency of white patients. At that moment, I decided I wanted to study nephrology.”

Gentzon Hall, MD, PhD, medical instructor (Nephrology), was recently awarded funding for his research project entitled, “Novel Gene Discovery in African Americans with Hereditary Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis."