Nine full-time faculty now work in the clinical track, seeing patients regularly in our outpatient clinics and dialysis units. Our dialysis programs have expanded to provide care to over 240 patients. This robust clinical practice provides excellent service to patients and referring physicians, and provides abundant opportunities for clinical research and teaching. Clinical training in the fellowship program has been substantially enhanced by our expanded clinical practices.
Clinical experience is broad and intense.
Weekly didactic seminars in dialysis care, transplant care, renal pathophysiology, and renal pathology supplement the clinical experiences in the hospitals and clinics. Regardless of a fellow's career objectives, we aim that each fellow emerge from the fellowship as a highly competent clinical nephrologist. My primary investigative interests reside in the epidemiology of malnutrition and infection among dialysis patients. I am examining various markers of nutritional status and tracking clinical, social, and personal factors that impact on nutrition of ESRD patients. I am also tracking bacteremic events among our dialysis population, looking for various factors that impact occurrence and outcome.