UC San Diego Nephrology Fellowship

The 2024 American Society of Nephrology is here! Starting tomorrow!

Please check out this list of great work by UCSD colleagues!

UCSD Nephrology Drs Tamara Rubenzik and Amber Sanchez among the physicians chosen for the 2021 San Diego Top Doctors award. Congrats Amber and Tammy!!

It's National Physician Assistant Week! Here at we have the most amazing Nephrology PA's!! Thank you Jeny, Amanda, Helen, Michael, and Chris for the fantastic work that you all do!

Latest publication from Dr. Amber Sanchez. Check it out!
"Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in the Critically Ill Patient: Technology and Indications"

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in the Critically Ill Patient: Technology and Indications Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is frequently the most common Apheresis Medicine technique used for extracorporeal therapy of a wide variety of rena…

Congrats Drs Etienne Macedo and Ravindra Mehta on your recent publication "Regional Citrate Anticoagulation for Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy With Calcium-Containing Solutions: A Cohort Study"

Regional Citrate Anticoagulation for Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy With Calcium-Containing Solutions: A Cohort Study Regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) is the preferred anticoagulation method for continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) recommended by KDIGO. Limited availability of calcium-free solutions often imposes challenges to the implementation of RCA for CKRT (RCA-CKRT). The principal purpose of thi...

Our Division was recently awarded the Satellite Healthcare Home Dialysis Fellow Program Grant! A special thanks to Dr. Cynthia Miracle for working diligently on our proposal!

Applied Pragmatic Clinical Research | Satellite Healthcare A practical approach to research that helps patients now

Our last Renal Grand Rounds conference of the academic year! Dr. Tomasz Beben presenting on "The Role of Geriatric Assessment in Nephrology."

Congratulations UCSD Nephrology faculty Drs. Rifkin, Abdelmalek and Woodell for being awarded UCSD Internal Medicine Chief Resident Teaching Awards which honor and recognize their teaching contributions to the housestaff . 3 of 7 awards went to our division! Fantastic!

UCSD Nephrology alumna Alison Potok was awarded an NIDDK K23 grant! Alison will focus her research on the Clinical Applications of the Difference in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate by Cystatin C vs. Creatinine, for Prognosis in the Long Term and Drug Dosing in the Short Term.

Our Renal Grand Rounds this Tuesday will have Dr. Edward Filippone speaking on "Primary FSGS: Current Concepts on Immunosuppression and Transplantation"

New publication from Dr. Sushil K. Mahata: "Chromogranin A Regulates Gut Permeability Via the Antagonistic Actions of its Proteolytic Peptides,"

Chromogranin A regulates gut permeability via the antagonistic actions of its proteolytic peptides - PubMed The pro-hormone CgA regulates the intestinal paracellular permeability. CST is both necessary and sufficient to reduce permeability and primarily acts by antagonizing PST.