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Jasvinder Bhatia Inducted Into BUMG Clinical Excellence Society
Congratulations to Jasvinder Bhatia, MD for receiving the honor of induction into Boston University Medical Group's Clinical Excellence Society for 2020. Dr. Bhatia serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine within the section of Nephrology, as well as Director of Clinical Nephrology Services at Boston Medical Center, and Medical Director... More
BMC Initiates COVID-19 Patient Vaccinations
Membranous Nephropathy Review Article by Laurence Beck and Loulwa Alsharhan Featured as AJKD Article in Press
Congratulations to Dr. Laurence Beck, Associate Professor of Nephrology at Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Loulwa Alsharhan, former Glomerular Disease fellow at Boston Medical Center, whose review article, Membranous Nephropathy: Core Curriculum 2021, has been published by the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, and featured as a recent Article in... More
Laurence Beck, Jasvinder Bhatia, and Lauren Stern named as “Top Docs” in Boston Magazine for 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Laurence Beck, Dr. Jasvinder Bhatia, and Dr. Lauren Stern of the Nephrology section at Boston Medical Center who have been included in Boston Magazine's Top Docs list for 2021 along with 93 other BMC physicians spanning a variety of fields. This recognition of your exceptional care is... More
Hanni Menn-Josephy Receives 2020 Evans Day Award for Clinical Quality Improvement
Hanni Menn-Josephy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the section of Nephrology, has received a 2020 Evans Day Clinical Quality Improvement Award for her work as Co-Lead in Reducing No-Shows in the Multidisciplinary Lupus Clinic. Congratulations to Dr. Menn-Josephy and her fellow leads on this exciting accomplishment.
Wenqing Yin Receives 2020 Evans Day Award for Basic Research Poster and Presentation
Nephrology research fellow Wenqing Yin, MD, PhD, has received the second place award in the 2020 Evans Day "Basic Research Poster and Presentation" category for her poster titled, "Indolic solute is a CKD-specific suppressor of Wnt signaling and a promoter of peripheral artery disease." Congratulations to Dr. Wenqing Yin and... More
Larry Beck and Nori Hayashi’s Commentary on Moore’s Law for Membranous Nephropathy Published in Kidney International
Dr. Laurence H. Beck Jr., Associate Professor of Medicine in the Renal Department at Boston University/Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Norifumi Hayashi, visiting researcher from Kanazawa Medical University in Japan, have published commentary on Moore’s Law for Membranous Nephropathy in Kidney International. The title of this Commentary is even more... More
Insa Schmidt, Lauren Stern, and Merav Shohet receive SSRC Rapid-Response Grant on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences
Doctors Insa Schmidt and Lauren Stern of BU/BMC's Section of Nephrology, along with BU Anthropology professor Dr. Merav Shohet, have received a Rapid-Response Grant on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences from The Social Science Research Council. The team will investigate Stigma Syndemics and End-Stage Kidney Disease in Disenfranchised Urban Communities... More
Titi Ilori receives the NIH grant to study the role of diet and APOL1 in CKD
Dr. Ilori receives the Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases to study the "The Role of Dietary Nutrients in CKD Progression and ApolipoproteinL1 (APOL1) Nephropathy". She intends to build a career focused on mechanistic and interventional studies on the effect of dietary... More
Waikar Lab receives new Kidney Precision Medicine Project Awards
Dr. Sushrut Waikar, Chief of Nephrology, recently receives two grants from the Kidney Disease Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) to enhance the clinical phenotyping of participants undergoing kidney biopsy: one grant will fund kidney physiologic measurements including mGFR using iohexol clearance and renal plasma flow using PAH clearance, before and after an... More