Study Group: Attending-level Nephrologists (US)(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 249
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
Steven Fishbane, MD
Chief of Nephrology, Medical Director
Winthrop-University Hospital Inc
Steven Fishbane, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Fishbane serves as Chief of Nephrology, Associate Chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Director of End-Stage Renal Disease Research at Winthrop-University Hospital...
Richard Amerling, MDDirector of Outpatient Dialysis
BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER INC
Richard Amerling, MD, is Director of Outpatient Dialysis and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, since June 1990. Dr. Amerling has an extensive background in all aspects of consultative nephrology including hypertension, kidney stones, glomerular...
Chief, Division of Nephrology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Glenn Chertow, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Nephrology, at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of Nephrology Services at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. His research interests are focused on epidemiology, health services research, and clinical trials in acute...
Medical Director
Dva Renal Healthcare, Inc.
Edward Littman, MD, is the Medical Director of the Davita Dialysis Clinics in Norwalk, Connecticut. He also serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Littman’s major area of expertise is in dialysis treatment of chronic kidney disease. He was...
Clinical Associate Professor
Michigan State University
Andrew Krutul, MD, is a Nephrologist at the Renal Associates of western Michigan in Grand Rapids Michigan. He served for years as a Clinical Section Chief of Nephrology at St Mary's Mercy Medical Center and serves as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Michigan State University School of Medicine....
Professor
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Michael Germain, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University in Boston. He is also an Attending Physician at Baystate Medical. His research interests and publications are in renal palliative care, exercise in renal patients, and predictive value of GFR measurements in renal transplant patients....
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- Physician - Department Chair
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