Past lecturers have included:
10/11/2005
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
10/31/2005
Raymond Harris, M.D., Director, Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, Vanderbilt Univ School of Medicine
"Interactions of COX-2 with the Renin-Angiotensin Aldosterone System"
11/14/2005
Ingrid Molema, Ph.D., Prof of Life Sciences, Groningen Univ Institute of Drug Exploration
"Endothelial Cell Directed Drug Targeting for Inflammatory Diseases: Where Endothelial Pharmacolomics and Pharmaceutical Sciences Meet Gene Therapy Center
12/5/2005
Connie Wang, M.D., Clinical/Research Fellow, John Hopkins School of Medicine
"Vascular Complications in ADPKD: Genetics and Pathogenesis"
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"
1/19/200
Marc Pohl, M.D., Head, Section of Hypertension & Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
"Renal Artery Stenosis/Renovascular Hypertension/Ischemic Nephropathy"
1/30/2006
Mark Rosenberg, M.D., Director, Division of Nephrology, Univ of Minnesota Medical School
"Stem Cells and the Kidney"
2/7/2006
Erwin Bottinger, M.D., Vice Chairman for Biomedical Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Molecular Analysis of Glomerular Disease"
Seminar Co-Sponsor - Cell Adhesion & Matrix Research Center
2/28/2006
Kumar Sharma, M.D.,Prof of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson Univ
"Vascular Complications of Diabetes: Role of TGF-Beta"
3/6/2006
Prasad Devarajan, M.D., Director, Nephrology & Hypertension, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
"Novel Technologies for the Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury"
3/13/2006
Herbert Lin, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Prof of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
"Novel Regulation of Iron Metabolism by a BMP Co-Receptor"
3/27/2006
Tomas Berl, M.D., Head, Division of Renal Diseases & Hypertension, Univ of Colorado Health Sci Center
"Studies on the Response of Inner Medullary Collecting Duct Cells to Osmotic Stress"
4/17/2006
Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Prof of Medicine, Univ of Cincinnati
"From Hemodynamics to Cell Biology: A New Look at Hemodialysis Vascular Access Dysfunction"
4/25/2006
Moshe Levi, M.D., Vice Chairman Med for Research, Renal Diseases, Univ of Colorado Health Sci Center
"Role of Lipids and Nuclear Receptors in the Pathogenesis of Diabetes and Age Related Renal Disease"
5/8/2006
Antonio Guasch, M.D., Medical Director, Renal Transplantation, Emory Univ
"Kidney Involvment in Sickle Cell Disease"
5/15/2006
Roslyn Mannon, M.D., "Medical Director, of Transplantation, National Institute of Health, NIDDK
"BK Polyomavirus Nephropathy: What have we learned?"
Co-Sponsor: Transplant Center
6/5/2006<
Jeff Sands, M.D., Director, Renal Division, Emory Univ
"Regulation of Renal Urea Transporters"
7/18/2006
Manjula Kurella, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Francisco
"Chronic Kidney Disease: A New Risk Factor for Dementia"
8/31/2006
James A. Tumlin, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Director Southeast Renal Research Institute, Univ of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Contrast Induced Nephropathy: Pathophysiology & Protective Effects of Iso-osmolar Contrast Agents"
9/18/2006
Matthew Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt Univ
"Transposon Systems for Gene Therapy of Renal Diseases"
9/25/2006
James Shayman, M.D., Professor of Internal Med & Pharmacology, Associate VP for Research, Univ Michigan
"What can we learn from Fabry Disease?"
9/29/2006
Ravi Mehta, M.D., Professor of Clinical Med, Associate Chair clinical Affairs, DOM, Univ of California, San Diego
"Critical Illness and AKI Cause and Consequence"
10/18/2006
Peter C. Agre, M.D., Nobel Laureate, Professor of Cell Biology, Vice Chancellor for Science & Technology, Duke Univ
"Aquaporin Water Channels: from Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine"
Co-Sponsor: Physiology and Biophysics
10/27/2006
Michael H. Humphreys, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Univ of California, San Francisco
"Gamma-MSH, Salt Sensitivity, and Insulin Resistance
Co-Sponsor: Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease Core Center
11/6/2006
David Spiegel, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Med Director, Chronic Hemodialysis Program, Univ of Colorado Hospital
"Vascular Calcification in CKD: New Insights & Implications"
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"
12/18/2006
Rajiv Agarwal, M.D., Associate Prof of Medicine, Indiana Univ School of Med
"Management of Hypertension in Hemodialysis Patients"
1/5/2007
Timmy Lee, M.D., Third Year Nephrology Fellow, UAB
"Optimizing AV Fistula Outcomes in Hemodialysis Patients"
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"
5/14/2007
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"
6/11/2007
Sumant Chugh, MBBS, M.D., F.A.S.N., Assistant Professor of Med, Northwestern Univ
"Transcriptional Regulation of Podocyte Disease: the emerging role of ZHX proteins"
7/25/2007
Shawn E. Cowper, M.D., Assistant Professor of Dermatology & Pathology, Yale Univ
"Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosing: The First 10 Years"
8/27/2007
Asif Ahmed, M.D., Professor & Head Reproductive Physiology, Univ of Birmingham, ENGLAND
"Natural Vascular Protective Pathways in Pregnancy"
9/17/2007
Diana Jalal, M.D., Assistant Professor of Med, Univ of Texas Medical School at Houston
"Epigenetic, Transcriptional Regulation CTGF and Renal Fibrosis: A Link?"
9/24/2007
Sandra Malakauskas, Ph.D., Nephrology Fellow, Duke Univ
"Collectrin's influence on amino acid transport and metabolism"
10/8/2007
Stuart Sprague, D.O., Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Nephrology & Hyptertension, Northwestern Univ
"Mechanisms of Transplant Associated Bone Loss"
10/15/2007
Gerald Appel, M.D., Professor of Clinical Med, Director of Clinical Nephrology, Columbia Univ
"Role of Angiotensin II in Cardiovascular Disease"
10/22/2007
Charles O'Neill, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Director of Ultrasonography Renal Division, Emory Univ
"The Pathophysiology of Vascular Calcification"
11/7/2007
Tilman Drueke, M.D., Director of Research, Necker Hospital, PARIS
"Anemia correction in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disese"
12/10/2007
Edgar Jaimes, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Med, Univ of Miami
"Nicotine: The link between cigarette smoking and renal injury"
1/3/2008
Rajiv Agarwal, M.D., Associate Professor of Med, Indiana Univ School of Med
"Current Controversies in Anemia Management"
2/18/2008
Craig Langman, M.D., Isaac A. Abt Prof of Kidney Disease, Northwestern Univ
"Changing Treatment Strategies in CKD-MBD based on Outcomes Evidence"
2/21/2008
Richard Johnson, M.D., Professor & Chief Nephrology, Hypertension & Transplantation, Univ of Florida
3/10/2008
Thu Le, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke Univ
"Gene Discovery for Renal Vascular Injury"
Co-Sponsor: Center for Free Radical Biology
3/13/2008
Linda Demer, Ph.D., M.D., Prof of Medicine and Physiology, Vice Chair Medicine, Univ of California, Los Angeles
"Role of oxidant stress in vascular calcification and osteoporosis of renal disease"
3/17/2008
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"
3/31/2008
Robert Luke, M.D., Professor of Med, Univ of Cincinnati
"Salt: too much of a good thing"
5/15/2008
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"
5/19/2008
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"
Co-Sponsor: Physiology and Biophysics
6/16/2008
Benjamin Humphreys, M.D., Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Med School
"In Search of the Renal Stem Cell: Kidney Lineage Analysis During Homeostasis, Repair and Fibrosis"
9/8/2008
Rajnish Mehrotra, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, UCLA
"Obstacles to increasing peritoneal dialysis"
9/15/2008
Ambra Pozzi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Nephrology & Hypertension, Vanderbilt
"Collagen Binding Receptors in Glomerulosclerosis"
9/22/2008
Tomas Berl, M.D., Professor and Head, Renal Diseases & Hypertension, Univ of Colorado
"How do Renal Cells Survive in the Hypertonic Medulla?"
9/29/2008
Stuart Goldstein, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
"Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury: It’s Time for Real"
11/12/2008
Bernard Rossier, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Institute de Pharmacologie, de l'Universite de Lausane Switzerland
"Epithelial Sodium Channel, Salt Intake and Blood Pressure Control: The Story of our Internal Environment Revisited"
11/17/2008
David Salant, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineRenal Section, Boston University Medical Center
"Membranous Nephropathy: From Models to Man"