Pediatric Nephrology Division 1989

From left - Deborah Jones, Douglas Matsell, Bettina Ault, Chuck McKay, Lou Anne Baldree, Russell Chesney, Robert Wyatt, Shane Roy (division chief)

Recent Fellows

M. Colleen Hastings, M.D.
3rd year 2006-2007
University of Tennessee College of Medicine, MD 2000, AOA
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, medicine-pediatrics residency, 2000-2004

During her first year of training, her clinical research project was on Thymoglobulin induction therapy for high-risk pediatric renal allograft recipients. She presented the findings of this project at a poster session the 2005 meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology/Pediatric Academic Societies - Hastings MC, Jones DP, Wyatt RJ, Ault BH: Thymoglobulin induction for cadaveric renal transplantation in African American children.
Dr. Hastings entered the University of Tennessee College of Graduate Health Science’s Master’s of Science program in Epidemiology in August 2005 (more)

Keith K. Lau, M.B.B.S. 2003-2006

University of Hong Kong, MBBS 1987
University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1991-1992, pediatric residency
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1992-1994, pediatric residency
University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1994-1995, neonatology fellowship

During his first year of training, his clinical research project was on clinical features and outcome of pediatric IgA nephropathy. He presented the findings of this project at a poster session the 2004 meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology/Pediatric Academic Societies and published the results in Clinical Nephrology

During his second and third year of fellowship, Dr. Lau has worked in the laboratory of Dr. Hiroko Nishimura in the UTHSC Department of Physiology on the ontogeny of aquaporin 2 expression in quail kidney. In April 2005, Dr. Lau presented a poster, Lau K, Yang Y, Thomason D, Wyatt R, Nishimura H: Differential increase in the mammalian type nephrons in avian kidney at the annual meeting of the Federation of Societies of Experimental Biology in San Diego. (more)

Previous Fellows

1985-1988 Deborah P. Jones, M.D.

Selected publications

Jones DP, Stapleton FB, Roy S 3rd, Wyatt RJ:  Beneficial effect of second courses of cytotoxic therapy in children with minimal change nephrotic syndrome.  Pediatr Nephrol 2: 291-295, 1988

Jones DP, Miller LA, Chesney RW:  Adaptive regulation of taurine transport in two continuous renal epithelial cell lines.  Kidney Int 38: 219-226, 1990

Initial position – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UTHSC
present position – Professor of Pediatrics, UTHSC

1986-1989 Bettina H. Ault, M.D.

Selected publications

Ault BH, Stapleton FB, Gaber L, Martin A, Roy S 3rd, Murphy SB:  Acute renal failure during therapy with recombinant human gamma interferon.  N Engl J Med 319: 1397-1400, 1988

Initial position – Instructor in Pediatrics, Washington University
School of Medicine
Present position - Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UTHSC

1987-1990 Lou Anne Baldree, M.D.

Selected publications

Baldree LA, Ault BH, Chesney CM, Stapleton FB: Intravenous desmopressin acetate in children with sickle trait and persistent macroscopic hematuria. Pediatrics 86: 238-243, 1990

Baldree LA, Wyatt RJ, Julian BA, Falk RJ, Jennette JC: Immunoglobulin A-fibronectin aggregate levels in children and adults with immunoglobulin A nephropathy. Am J Kidney Dis 22: 1-4, 1993

Initial position – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, East Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, NC
Present position – Nursing instructor, East Carolina State University, Greenville, NC

1988-1991 Douglas Matsell, M.D.

Selected publications

Matsell DG, Roy S 3rd, Tamerius JD, Morrow PR, Kolb WP, Wyatt RJ: Plasma terminal complement complexes in acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Am J Kidney Dis 17:311-316, 1991

Matsell DG, Wyatt RJ: The role of I and B in peritonitis associated with the nephrotic syndrome of childhood.
Pediatr Res 34: 84-88, 1993

Matsell DG, Gaber LW, Malik KU: Cytokine stimulation of prostaglandin production inhibits the proliferation of serum-stimulated mesangial cells. Kidney Int 45:159-165, 1994

Initial position – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Western Ontario
Present position – Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Pediatrioc Nephrology, University of British Columbia

Israel Zelikovic (post-doctoral laboratory research training with Dr. Chesney)

Selected publications

Zelikovik I, Stejskal-Lorenz E, Lohstroh P, Budreau A, Chesney RW: Anion dependence of taurine transport by rat renal brush-border membrane vesicles. Am J Physiol 256: F646-F655, 1989

Zelikovik I, Stejskal E, Lohstroh P, Budreau A, Chesney RW: Developmental maturation of Na(+)-H+ exchange in rat renal tubular brush-border membrane. Am J Physiol 261:F1017-F1025, 1991

Initial position – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle
Present position - Director of Pediatric Nephrology at the Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

1989-1992 Donald Batisky, M.D.

Selected publications

Batisky DL, Roy S 3rd, Gaber LW: Congenital nephrosis and neonatal cytomegalovirus infection: a clinical association.
Pediatr Nephrol 7: 741-743, 1993

Batisky DL, Wyatt RJ, Fitzwater DS, Gaber AO, Roy S 3rd: Pediatric renal transplant experience in Memphis, Tennessee.
Transplant Proc 26: 54-56, 1994

Initial position – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UTHSC
Present position – Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean of Admissions, Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health

1990-1993 Douglas Fitzwater, M.D.

Selected Publications

Fitzwater DS, Wyatt RJ: Hematuria. Pediatr Rev 15:102-108, 1994

Fitzwater DS, Jones DP: Use of a modified peritoneal equilibration test to optimize solute and water clearance.
Pediatr Nephrol 9: 341-345, 1995

Initial position – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Mississippi School of Medicine
Present position – private practice pediatrics, Carruthersville, Missouri

1992-1995 Azra Sehic, M.D.

Selected Publications

Sehic A, Chesney RW: Acute renal failure: diagnosis. Pediatr Rev 16:101-106, 1995

Sehic AM, Gaber LW, Roy S 3rd, Miller PM, Kritchevsky SB, Wyatt RJ: Increased recognition of IgA nephropathy in African-American children. Pediatr Nephrol 11:435-477, 1997

Initial position - Private practice pediatrics and pediatric nephrology, Scottish Rite Hospital, Atlanta
Present position – Pediatric nephrologist, Janet Weiss Children’s Hospital/Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania

1994-1997 Mohammed Ilyas, M.D.

Selected Publications

Ilyas M, Roy S 3rd, Abbasi S, Leggiadro RJ, English BK, Wyatt RJ: Serious infections due to penicillin-resistant Streptococcus peneumoniae in two children with nephrotic syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol 10:639-641, 1996

Ilyas M, Ammons JD, Gaber AO, Roy S 3rd, Batisky DL, Chesney RW, Jones DP, Wyatt RJ: Comparable renal graft survival in African-American and Caucasian recipients. Pediatr Nephrol 12:534-539, 1998

Initial position – Private practice of pediatrics
Current position – Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas School; of Medicine

1999-2003 Noel M. Delos Santos

Selected Publications

Delos Santos NM, Ault BH, Gharavi AG, Kritchevsky SB, Quasney MW, Jackson EC, Fisher KA, Woodford SY, Mitchell BL, Gaber LW, Arheart KL, Wyatt RJ: Angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype and outcome in pediatric IgA nephropathy.
Pediatr Nephrol: 17:496-502, 2002

Delos Santos NM, Wyatt RJ: Pediatric IgA nephropathies: clinical aspects and therapeutic approaches.
Semin Nephrol 24:269-86, 2003

Gardner LA, Delos Santos NM, Matta SG, Whitt MA, Bahouth SW: Role of the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in homologous resensitization of the beta1-adrenergic receptor. J Biol Chem 279: 21135-21143, 2004

Initial position – Instructor of Pediatrics, UTHSC
Present position – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UTHSC.

Israel Zelikovic (foreground). Also in the photo are Bruder Stapleton, Robert Wyatt, Bettina Ault and Deborah Jones. The dinner was at the Rendezvous Restaurant which is famous for dry ribs.