In addition, weekly conferences are held in the laboratories of Drs. Fredric Coe, Murray Favus, F. Gary Toback, Marshall Lindheimer, John Lieske and Richard Quigg. The Fellowship Program in Nephrology is based entirely at the University of Chicago Medical Center, which includes Mitchell Hospital, Billings Hospital, Chicago Lying-in Hospital, Children's Hospital, and the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine. The Section of Nephrology operates the Woodlawn and Lake Park Chronic Hemodialysis Units, located in Hyde Park, and the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit and Acute Hemodialysis Unit, located within the Medical Center. The first year of fellowship is divided among the renal consultation service, the inpatient dialysis service, and the kidney transplantation service.
Fellows also follow a small group of chronic hemodialysis patients throughout the training program.
Section Faculty Weekly Clinics Fellows attend one half-day clinic a week, evaluating patients with chronic renal failure, hypertension, kidney stones, glomerulonephritis, renal bone disease and renal transplantation. In addition, fellows see patients in the renal transplant and donor evaluation clinics while on the Transplant Nephrology inpatient service. After the first year, fellows also have the opportunity to see patients in the high-risk obstetrics, pediatric nephrology, kidney stone, and bone disease clinics. The University of Chicago Section of Nephrology has been awarded an NIH Institutional National Research Service Award that supports individual postdoctoral fellows. Funding of research training can be assured for qualified individuals for at least one year.