Past lecturers have included:
10/11/05
Thomas Coffman, M.D., Chief, Division of Nephrology, Duke Univ Medical Ctr
"Role of Angiotensin II in Cardiovascular Disease: Regulation of Blood Pressure by ATI Receptors in the Kidney"
10/31/05
Raymond Harris, M.D., Director, Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, Vanderbilt Univ School of Medicine
"Interactions of COX-2 with the Renin-Angiotensin Aldosterone System"
12/12/2005
Hanna Abboud, M.D., Director, Division of Nephrology, Univ of Texas Health Sci Center at San Antonio
"New Mediators of Diabetic Nephropathy"
2/28/2006
Kumar Sharma, M.D., Prof of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson Univ
"Vascular Complications of Diabetes: Role of TGF-Beta"
03/06/2006
Prasad Devarajan, M.D., Director, Nephrology & Hypertension, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
"Novel Technologies for the Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury"
06/05/2006
Jeff Sands, M.D., Director Renal Division, Emory Univ
"Regulation of Renal Urea Transporters"
09/25/2006
James Shayman, M.D., Professor of Internal Med & Pharmacology, Associate VP for Research, Univ Michigan
"What can we learn from Fabry Disease?"
12/4/2006
Eduardo Slatopolsky, M.D., Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Med, Washington Univ School of Med Renal Division
"The Effects of Phosphate on the Progression of Cardiovascular, Rneal and Skeletal Diseases"
3/12/2007
Richard Zager, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Program Director Nephrology, Univ of Washington
"The Trade Off Hypothesis: Ischemic Preconditioning and the Inflammatory Response"
4/16/2007
Eberhard Ritz, M.D.
ISN Pres, Professor Internal Medicine, Heidelberg GERMANY
"Salt and Organ Damage - Beyond Hypertensions"
05/14/2007
Charles Edelstein, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.H.A., Professor of Medicine, Univ of Colorado Health Sci Center
"Interleukin-18 in Acute Kidney Injury: from bench to bedside"
2/21/2008
Richard Johnson, M.D., Professor & Chief Nephrology, Hypertension & Transplantation, Univ of Florida
03/17/2008
Christof Westenfelder, M.D., Professor of Med, Chairman Research & Development Committee, VA Med Center, Salt Lake City, UT
"Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury with Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Preclinical Data and Phase I Clinical Trials"
03/31/2008
Robert Luke, M.D., Professor of Med, Univ of Cincinnati
"Salt: too much of a good thing"
05/15/2008
Kirpal S. Chugh, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.P., F.I.C.P., F.A.M.S., F.I.C.A., Emeritus Prof of Nephrology, Postgrad Institue of Medical Ed and Research, Chandigarh INDIA
"Community Acquired Acute Renal Injury in the Emerging World"
05/19/2008
Thomas Kleyman, M.D., Professor of Med, Cell Biology & Physiology, Chief Renal-Electrolyte Division, Univ of Pittsburg
"Regulation of epithelial sodium channels by external cues"
11/17/2008
David Salant, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineRenal Section, Boston University Medical Center
"Membranous Nephropathy: From Models to Man"