The Nephrology Unit is enthusiastic about its tripartile mission of patient care, research and education

Patient Care:
The Nephrology Unit provides all of the inpatient and outpatient nephrology care to patients at both Strong and Highland Hospitals; there are no private nephrologists at either site. Inpatient care revolves around acute consults, often of patients with renal failure, and provision of dialysis services as needed. All patients who have received, or are about to receive, a kidney transplant are followed by the nephrology unit. All admitted patients who are on dialysis are followed and receive dialysis treatments supervised by nephrologists during their hospital stay. Outpatient services consist of initial and follow-up consultations referred from a wide geographic area. In addition we follow almost 600 chronic dialysis patients and 700 chronic transplant patients. All donor and recipient kidney transplant evaluations are performed by nephrology.

Research:
The Nephrology Unit has an active research enterprise. We currently have several principle investigators who have been awarded a number of NIH grants. Additionally we support clinical study nurses to do clinical research, some of which are sponsored by industry. The emphasis on research leads to a large number of publications in excellent, peer reviewed journals.

Education:
The Nephrology Unit has an active educational program with a large number of regular conferences including: journal club, pathology, clinical, research, sign out and city-wide. We regularly receive over 200 fellowship applications each year and have the privilege of selecting from the very best and brightest residents, a number from our own Internal Medicine Housestaff program, to fill our fellowship roster.