Division News

Susan Gurley, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine (nephrology), lives the challenge of trying to meet the demands of work and family on a daily basis. Her personal experience informs her involvement as the chair for the Program for Women in Internal Medicine (PWIM).

“Our mission is to enhance the advancement of women by building and maintaining a supportive and equitable work environment that facilitates career advancement and satisfaction among women faculty and trainees,” she said.

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." 

Duke Translational Medicine Institute is featuring collaborative research by Uptal Patel, MD, associate professor of medicine (Nephrology) and pediatrics.

Don't forget: Thurs., June 25, the Duke O'Brien Center for Kidney Research will hold its third annual symposium from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.

Click here for a full agenda.

The Division of Nephrology invites all faculty, trainees and staff to join its team – called the “Duke WINNers” – at the annual PurpleStride 5K run/walk on May 16, 2015.

Three of the nation’s largest philanthropies – the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation – have announced a new partnership to provide much needed research support to outstanding early-career scientists in the United States.

Through the new Faculty Scholars Program, the philanthropies will invest a total of $148 million in research support over the program’s first five years.

Matt Sparks, MD, medical instructor in the Division of Nephrology, will serve as director of undergraduate medical research, announced Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Sparks’ focus will be on increasing the number of medical students participating in research within the Department of Medicine, said Dr. Klotman.

Faculty members from the Division of Nephrology will attend and present at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week meeting Nov.