NEPHROLOGY

Goals: Integrate Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) into routine care; work closely with population health to reduce costs of caring for patients with kidney disease while improving care; work towards a Kidney Research Center of Excellence.

Clinical Areas of Excellence:
dialysis, including home therapies; chronic kidney disease; glomerulonephritis; polycystic kidney disease; genetic disorders; diabetic and all causes of kidney disease; prevention of kidney stones; difficult-to-control hypertension

Education Areas of Excellence:
diverse training in nephrology with subspecialty nephrology care in transplant, home dialysis, hypertension, pharmacogenomics, kidney stone prevention, polycystic kidney disease, and glomerulonephritis; two blocks of Intercession training for intensive education and hands on experience during the first year of fellowship

Research Areas of Excellence:
the Kidney Precision Medicine Program (KPMP) was one of five centers to be renewed for another five years; HubMap, the making of a Kidney Atlas in collaboration with Washington University; the Musculoskeletal Clinical Research Center recently renewed for another five years; and the Pediatric Center of Excellence in Nephrology, a collaboration with Washington University. The George O’Brien Kidney Center award is in its twentieth year.

LEADERSHIP & ADMINISTRATION

SHARON MOE, MD
Stuart A. Kleit Professor of Nephrology Division Director

BRENT MILLER, MD
Michael A. Kraus Home Dialysis Professor of Nephrology
Service Line Leader

AMANDA GALBRAITH
Division Administrator

JEREMY HOUGH
Service Line Leader

KEY CLINICAL EDUCATOR

Tim Sutton, MD, PhD

Additional Leadership Roles

Sharon Moe, MD
Co-Director Indiana CTSI Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Co-Chair Gordon Research Conference on Phosphate Physiology

Tarek Ashkar, MD
Chair, Publications Committee, American Society of Nephrology

Dennis Mishler, MD
President, National Kidney Foundation of Indiana Medical Advisory Board

Asif Sharfuddin, MD
Executive Committee, American Society for Transplantation and UNOS Kidney Committee

FELLOWSHIPS

Nephrology Fellowship (two years)
Director: Timothy A. Sutton, MD, PhD

Transplant Nephrology Fellowship (one year)
Director: Asif A. Sharfuddin, MD

Advanced Home Dialysis Fellowship (one year)
Director: Nupur Gupta, MD

ASSOCIATED RESEARCH CENTERS

Musculoskeletal Research Center
Principal Investigator: Sharon Moe, MD

The O’Brien Kidney Center at Indiana University
Director: Pierre C. Dagher, MD

NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

Agarwal R, Sinha AD, Tu W. Chlorthalidone for Resistant Hypertension in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease. Circulation. 2022 Aug 30;146(9):718-720. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.060167. Epub 2022 Aug 29. PMID: 36037270; PMCID: PMC9752356.

Melo Ferreira R, Sabo AR, Winfree S, Collins KS, Janosevic D, Gulbronson CJ, Cheng YH, Casbon L, Barwinska D, Ferkowicz MJ, Xuei X, Zhang C, Dunn KW, Kelly KJ, Sutton TA, Hato T, Dagher PC, El-Achkar TM, Eadon MT. Integration of spatial and single-cell transcriptomics localizes epithelial cell-immune crosstalk in kidney injury. JCI Insight. 2021 Jun 22;6(12):e147703. doi: 10.1172/jci. insight.147703. PMID: 34003797; PMCID: PMC8262485.

LaFavers KA, Hage CA, Gaur V, Micanovic R, Hato T, Khan S, Winfree S, Doshi S, Moorthi RN, Twigg H, Wu XR, Dagher PC, Srour EF, El-Achkar TM. The kidney protects against sepsis by producing systemic uromodulin. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2022 Aug 1;323(2):F212-F226. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00146.2022. Epub 2022 Jun 27. PMID: 35759740; PMCID: PMC9359648.