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Mission Statement for the Division of Pediatric Nephrology

The mission of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology is to maintain excellence in the areas of patient care, education and research related to childhood kidney diseases. The division is a regional resource for evaluation of children with kidney disease and hypertension and has active pediatric dialysis and kidney transplantation programs. Members of the division are involved in the education of medical students, pediatric residents and medicine-pediatric residents. The division maintains an accredited pediatric nephrology fellowship-training program. Members of the division regularly participate in public and professional education through involvement with the National Kidney Foundation of West Tennessee. The division has active clinical and laboratory research programs. The division’s philosophy is that in order for progress to be made in the clinical and pathogenetic understanding of childhood kidney disease, clinical trials for glomerular disorders, hypertension, dialysis and transplantation should be available for our patients.

Dr. John Sanders was awarded a fellowship training grant from the National Kidney Foundation. The grant, "Non-invasive diagnosis of IgA nephropathy" will begin July 1, 2008. Dr. Robert J. Wyatt and Dr. Jan Novak (University of Alabama at Birmingham) are co-sponsors. The grant is one of only 26 awarded nationally by the NKF for 2008-2009 and is supported f by the National Kidney Foundation Strides for IgA Nephropathy Fellowship.

Dr. Deborah Jones' abstract, "Serum uric acid and ambulatory blood pressure in children at risk for hypertension" has been accepted for oral presentation at the 2008 Pediatric Academc Societies/American Society of Pediatric Nephrology annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 3-6, 2008. Other accepted abstracts from the division include PL3 resident, Dr. John Spencer's poster presentation. "Characteristics of steroid responsive nephrotic syndrome in children: 1996-2006" (Bettina Ault senior author) and Phyllis Richey's poster presentation, "The association between left ventricular geometry and ambulatory blood pressure in children at risk for hypertension" (Deborah Jones senior author).

Dr. Noel Delos Santos was awarded 2nd year of funding for his New Investigator Award from the Children's Foundation Research Center for his project' "Podocyte Proteomic Consequences of Oxidative Stress." The award is for $50,000 for the period July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008.

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