Garland Patton, a dialysis patient in the Chromalloy Kidney Center at Washington University, and a group of more than 50 family and friends, turned out for the annual St. Louis National Kidney Foundation (NKF)-sponsored Kidney Walk held last April. This was the fifth year in a row that the Patton group took part in the […]
A week’s worth of meetings, talks and training conferences were not the only activities on the orientation schedule for the first-year nephrology fellows. The fellows also had to break out of a murder mystery Escape Room. “We always like to promote teamwork and camaraderie among the fellows – so I thought taking them to an […]
It was by chance that Barry Meek discovered he had kidney disease. A minor mishap sent him to the hospital in 1992. Routine blood work indicated renal failure caused by high blood pressure – something he did not know he had. Years later, his medical journey introduced him to home dialysis – giving him more […]
Brent Miller, MD is an associate professor of medicine in the division of renal diseases. He is medical director of home dialysis. His areas of clinical interest include kidney transplantation, home dialysis, nocturnal hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Why did you choose nephrology? During my internal medicine residency I wasn’t sure what specialty to pursue because […]
Stephen Farley spent almost his entire life with damaged kidneys. At age four he had an obstruction between his kidneys and bladder causing urine to back up into his kidneys – resulting in permanent damage. This is the story of how a kidney transplant changed his life at age 45. His wife knows best For […]
In 2002, Edward Boccia, a world-rated expressionist painter and poet was doing some drawing studies from a model. He had become so weak from his kidney failure, that he had difficulty holding the chalk. “It felt like it weighed 50 pounds,” he says, “I could hardly lift it.” But since his kidney transplant at age […]
Mr. Dana Clay was only 23 when his kidneys failed. He was an active young man, but one day he came home from the gym feeling queasy and lightheaded. The doctor thought it was his tonsils, so he was started on antibiotics. When that didn’t help, Mr. Clay went to the hospital. Tests showed he […]
There are some people for whom giving is just a way of life. People like parents, police officers, organ donors. People like Phillip Wisely. Wisely, 54, a native of Murphysboro, IL, is a married father of three. He is a former police officer from the Metro East. He currently works in the compliance department at […]