Dialysis Patient’s Kidney Walk Entourage: Five Years and Growing
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 […]
Surviving Orientation Can Be Murder for First-Year Fellows
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 […]
Dr. O’Brien Joins Nephrology
The Division of Nephrology welcomes Frank J. O’Brien, MD, who will be joining the division as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and seeing patients in the Chromalloy American Kidney Center Dialysis Unit. Dr. O’Brien received his medical degree, with first-class honors, from University College Cork, Ireland. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the […]
You can take it with you, home dialysis, that is
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 […]
Physician profile: Brent Miller, MD
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 […]