All fellows are expected to demonstrate written evidence of scholarly activity by the end of their 2 years of fellowship training. The divisional Renal Fellow Scholarship and Research Committee was created to provide fellows with a portfolio of research opportunities that meet the research/scholarly activity requirement of the program. The committee reviews all proposals submitted by the fellows, selects projects eligible for funding, guides fellows through a reasonable timeline for successful completion and develops faculty mentors to appropriately guide fellows through their projects.
Examples of activities include case reports, in-depth literature reviews, chart reviews, poster presentations, and quality improvement projects. Recent fellow activities include:
Publications
Story, Sanders, Bashir, Longo, Abel, Dollard, Grodstein, Thomas, Katz. Infiltrating Kaposi sarcoma presenting as acute kidney injury: An unexpected consequence of deliberate hepatitis C-positive organ transplantation. Transpl Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 3
Kuppachi, Story, Hocker, Severe Hypercalcemia from Ectopic Intact Parathyroid Hormone Secretion Treated with Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in a Patient with Two Malignancies, Submitted.
Lodhi A, Kumar A, Saqlain M, Suneja M. Thrombotic Microangiopathy Associated with Proteasome Inhibitors. Clin Kidney J 2015; 8: 632-636.
Sanghvi Y, Somers D. Blastomyces Dermatitidis Peritonitis Complicating Peritoneal Dialysis. Semin Dial 2017 Sep; 30(5): 453-455.
Story M, Ten Eyck P, Kuppachi S. Opinions of Health Care Personnel Regarding Disincentives and Incentives for Living Kidney Donation at a Single Center. Transplantation Proceedings June 2018 50(10).
Patel J, Kuppachi, S. AKI in a Patient with Cerebral Toxoplasmosis/American Society of Nephrology. Kidney360 April 2020, 1 (4) 316-317.
Patel J, Swee, M. Neurotoxoplasmosis mimicking primary brain malignancy. IDCases. 2020; 21: e00767. Published online 2020 May 15.
Thomas, C, Freese, M, Ounda A, Jetton, J, Holida, M, Noureddine, L, Smith, R. Initial experience from a renal genetics clinic demonstrates a distinct role in patient management. Genetics Medicine 22, 1025-1035 (2020).
Oo S, Freese, M, Holanda, D, Thomas, C. Spontaneous remission of genetic, apparent primary FSGS presenting with nephrotic syndrome challenges traditional notions of primary FSGS. J Nephro 2021 Feb; 34(1): 255-258.
Case Reports:
Maria T Story 1, M Lee Sanders 1 2, Amani A Bashir 3, Jude M Longo 2 4, Stacy L Abel 2, Sheila C Dollard 5, Elliot I Grodstein 6, Christie P Thomas 1 2, Daniel A Katz. Infiltrating Kaposi sarcoma presenting as acute kidney injury: An unexpected consequence of deliberate hepatitis C-positive organ transplantation. Transpl Infect Dis 2021 Apr; 23(2):e13481
Meenakshi Sambharia 1 , Jyothsna Gattineni 2 , Lama Noureddine 1 , M Adela Mansilla 3 , Christie P Thomas 4 5 6. Familial hyperkalemic hypertension: hyperkalemia not hypertension defines dominant KLHL3 disease and may permit earlier recognition and tailored therapy.
J Nephrol. 2022 Jan 8. doi: 10.1007/s40620-021-01217-5.
Poster Presentations:
Actinomyces neuii Peritonitis in Peritoneal Dialysis: A Rare and Likely Underrecognized Opportunistic Infection (Oo, Patel, Swee). ASN 2019
Spontaneous remission of genetic, apparent primary, FSGS presenting with nephrotic syndrome challenges traditional notions of primary and genetic FSGS. (Oo, S., Patel, J., Freese, M., Thomas C.P). ASN 2019
Donor Derived Cell Free DNA Positivity—Does it Always Mean Rejection? Sambharia, Sureshkumar, Aramada, Chopra. ASN 2019
Neuro-toxoplasmosis After Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation (Patel, Oo, Kirby, Swee). ASN 2019
What is the Cause of this Patient’s Hypertension? (Oo, Hegeman). NKF 2020
Streptococcus oralis Peritonitis in Peritoneal Dialysis: A Truly Nail-Biting Experience. (Oo, Patel, Noureddine). NKF 2020
Emphysematous Pyelonephritis with Incidental Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Disease
"Severe Hyponatremia with Intraoperative Desmopressin Use In (Deceased and Living Donor) Renal Transplant Recipients". (Gill, Thomas, Kuppachi) ATC 2018
ANCA-Associated Vasculitis through the Continuum of Age: A Retrospective Chart Review (Gill, B Kumar, Strouse, Swee, Suneja). ASN 2018
Pregnancy Outcomes in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: A Retrospective Review (Swee, Strouse, Gill, Suneja, B Kumar). ASN 2018
NKF poster Boston 2019: Pregnancy induced DI (Gill, Kumar, Huang). NKF 2019
Treatment of Severe Hypercalcemia Using Calcium Free Fluids in CRRT (Kumar, Gill, Swee): ADC 2019
Treatment of Severe Hyperkalemia and Hyponatremia Using Continuous Venovenous Hemodialysis (Kumar, Swee). ADC 2019
Poster accepted for presentation at NKF 2020: What is the Cause of this Patient’s Hypertension? (Oo, Hegeman)
Poster accepted for presentation at NKF 2020: Streptococcus oralis Peritonitis in Peritoneal Dialysis: A Truly Nail-Biting Experience. (Oo, Patel, Noureddine) and submitted to ASN 2020
Mann, Honkanen, Hegeman, Huang, Kumar. Zin Mar Win Htut Oo, Thomas, Swee, Griffin. The Impact of CRRT Modality on Filter Life. ASN Kidney Week 2020.
Mann, Fraer, Kuppachi, Noureddine, Antes, Jenigiri, Story, Sambharia, Patel, O'Connor, Griffin. The Impact of COVID on CRRT Filter Lifespan. ASN Kidney Week 2020.
Sreedevi K Jenigiri MBBS, Jayesh Patel MBBS, Lisa M. Antes MD. Tiopronin induced minimal change disease - the third reported case. ASN kidney Week 2020
Sreedevi K Jenigiri MBBS, Jayesh Patel MBBS, Prerna Kumar MBBS, Christie P. Thomas MBBS, Sarat Kuppachi MBBS. Rapid renal allograft failure following recurrence of lupus nephritis 12 years after renal transplant. NKF 2021.
Maria Story MD, Lee Sanders MD, Sreedevi Jenigiri MBBS, Amani Bashir MD, Jude Longo MD, Elliot Grodstein MD, Christie Thomas MD, Daniel Katz MD. HHV-8 Associated Kaposi Sarcoma Developing in a Kidney Allograft from Hepatitis C Positive Donor. ASN Kidney Week 2020.
Jayesh Patel, Sreedevi Jenigiri, Prerna Rastogi, Christie Thomas. One disease cannot exclude the other: The co-existence of IgA nephropathy and Alport syndrome. ASN Kidney Week 2020.
Patel, Oo, Jenigiri, Antes. Emphysematous Pyelonephritis with Emphysematous Endophthalmitis. NKF 2020
QI Projects
- Renal Biopsy Consent Form Update in EPIC. Abhishek Kumar 2015
- Transplant Snapshot Update in EPIC. Yogesh Kiranraj Sanghvi 2016
- Renal Hand-off in EPIC: Mandeep Gill 2019
- Improving COC Renal Clinic Wait Times: Sambharia 2019
- EPIC Glomerulonephritis Treatment Order Set: Story 2021