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Renal Transplant Fellowship Program

One Renal Transplant Fellowship Position is offered each academic year to an individual interested in a more extensive exposure to solid organ transplantation. The successful completion of at least two years of an ACGME-approved general nephrology fellowship training program is required.

The Renal Transplant Fellowship Position is designed to meet all United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) as well as American Society of Transplantation/American Society of Nephrology criteria for certification as a transplant physician.

Clinical
Specific rotations include:

  1. Four (4) months rotation on busy clinical kidney transplant in-patient services
  2. Eight (8) months are spent doing combinations of clinic and electiverotations including:
  3. Evaluation of renal recipient patients for transplantation and patients for renal donation
  4. Renal Transplant In-patient Consult Service
  5. Outpatient management of the transplant patient in the Transplant Clinic
  6. Other solid organ transplantation including heart, liver and pancreas
  7. Tissue typing
  8. Organ procurement
  9. Clinical transplantation research 

Research Activities
The trainee is expected to participate in clinical research activities, and may elect to become involved in basic research activities of the transplant center.

In-Patient Medical/Surgical Renal Transplant Ward and Consult Services

The Transplant Service is a combined medical and surgical service which provides kidney transplants to approximately 250-300 patients per year.

The Transplant Ward is a 52-bed unit served by a separate transplant dialysis unit with 6 stations and 1 mobile machine.  Each transplant nephrology fellow rotates on the in-patient service for 4 months.  On this rotation the transplant fellow will perform allograft biopsies on in-patients.

The Transplant Nephrology Consult Service provides support to transplant recipients who are on other in-patient services.  The transplant fellow is exposed to the management of immunosuppressive therapy in various clinical situations while on this service.  The transplant fellow will perform all outpatient allograft biopsies on this rotation.

Full tissue typing laboratories are located at UAB supporting solid organ and bone marrow transplantation.

Renal Transplant Outpatient Services
All patients approaching or at end-stage renal disease who wish to be active candidates for renal transplantation, as well as individuals desiring to be living related or unrelated kidney donors, are seen in the Renal Transplant Evaluation Outpatient Clinic.  The fellow on the Transplant Evaluation rotation completes a full consult note for all patients and discusses the findings and recommendations with the Transplant Nephrology attending physician on the Transplant Evaluation Service.

Ample exposure to outpatient management of transplant patients is obtained at the Renal Transplant Clinic which the fellow attends twice weekly. 

Special conferences for Transplantation Service include weekly Transplant Journal Club, ESRD Conference and Transplant Teaching Rounds.

Transplant Fellowship Application Process
A completed application form, three professional letters of recommendation (including a letter from your nephrology fellowship training program director) and copies of all three (3) USMLE Scores are required of all applicants.  Applications may be requested by phone, fax, e-mail or letter through Mrs. Wilma Marcrum.

Applications are accepted from graduates of U.S. and foreign medical schools that have successfully completed or are currently in post-graduate training in Nephrology in an ACGME-approved training program in the United States. However, applications will not be accepted at this time if the applicant is a holder of a J1 visa.  

We require a personal interview of all applicants. To streamline the interview process, we extend invitations for personal interviews only to select applicants. You will be notified if you are chosen for a personal interview after your written application is complete.  

For more information, please call or E-mail Mrs. Wilma Marcrum, Phone number: (205) 934-1801. E-mail:  wmarcrum@uab.edu.  Early applications are encouraged.

Transplant Nephrology Faculty