Our nephrology fellowship program director is Dr Matthew A. Sparks, who is an internationally recognized educator. Additionally, Dr Harpreet Singh and Dr Rasha Raslan serve as APDs and are integral members of the team fellows interact with on a daily basis. Their goal is to ensure that your goals during fellowship are reached and this occurs in a supportive and nuturing environment.

Work-life balance is important to us. Our call is covered by a night float system that has been in place for 5 years. During your training you will be supported by mentors, program directors, and faculty. Our goal is to provide personalized training. Your individual success our first priority.

Durham, North Carolina is a wonderful place to live, learn and train, and is commonly recognized for its availability of jobs, relatively low cost of living, affordable housing, safe streets, mild climate, culture and recreation. Learn more about Durham.

Find out why Durham is North Carolina’s hippest city or visit Duke University's comprehensive website on living in Durham.

Explore our outstanding career path options. Check out our social media, Twitter: @DukeKidney, YouTube: Duke Kidney, Instagram: dukekidney. Come visit campus and see our clinical and research facilities firsthand. Then, consider making Duke your Nephrology match. You’ll emerge more than prepared to lead your field and enjoy career excellence, a lifetime of achievement, and make a difference in patients’ lives, every day.

Here's what your years will look like. To see years one through three of your fellowship and rotational schedules, click here.

The faculty of Duke Nephrology embodies the entire field of Nephrology. We have led the way from our first living donor transplant, to the ascertainment of genetic causes of kidney disease, to the mechanisms of hypertension pathogenesis.

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A half a century of Duke Nephrology highlights:

Over the last 15 years, Duke Nephrology fellows have been recognized for their outstanding research. View their awards and achievements here.

The Duke Nephrology fellowship program maintains an active NIH training grant. This is called the North Carolina Kidney, Urology, and Hematology Training, Research, Innovation, and Outreach Program (NC KUH TRIO Program). This is an NIH Funded Training Grant (U2C/TL1) Spanning Duke, UNC, Wake Forest. Provides support, networking, resources for trainees interested in careers dedicated to research.

This provides intensive training to Nephrology fellows in areas that relate to normal kidney physiology as well as the pathogenesis of kidney diseases and hypertension in both biomedical and clinical research.

Completion of this program permits trainees to pursue careers as academicians conducting high quality research in clinical, translational and basic aspects of nephrology and hypertension.

Our faculty’s wide range of interests and disciplines includes:

For physician scientists, the program is structured around two to three years of intensive laboratory experience working closely with a high-quality preceptor. For trainees with M.D. degrees, the program provides one year of clinical training followed by at least two years of research training. Supplementing your research experience will be formal course work, research seminars and journal clubs. Upon completion of your fellowship, you will rank among the top physicians in Nephrology in the nation.

Duke Nephrology is committed to promoting and supporting diversity and inclusion within our faculty, staff, students and scientific agenda. Our diverse views, opinions and backgrounds are what unite us in the fight against kidney diseases and hypertension. We strive to be inclusive of all dimensions of diversity, including, but not limited to, age, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion. Please see the link for additional information about the School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.