After his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago, Dr. Fields earned his PhD in Biochemistry and his MD degree from Duke University. He completed his residency training at Duke and spent over 7 years on the faculty there before joining KUMC. Dr. Fields' clinical interests are focused on non-neoplastic kidney disease and transplant pathology. In addition to clinical duties, Dr. Fields is also the Director of the MD/PhD Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center and has an independent research laboratory. His research interests include both basic science and clinical aspects of cellular signaling, renal injury and transplantation.