{"id":4327,"date":"2026-05-05T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:30:14","slug":"congratulations-professor-francis-on-your-april-2026-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/2026\/05\/05\/congratulations-professor-francis-on-your-april-2026-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Professor Francis  on your April 2026 Promotion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/nephrology\/files\/2026\/05\/Jean-Francis-174x300.png\" alt=\"Jean Francis\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4324 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/files\/2026\/05\/Jean-Francis-174x300.png 174w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/files\/2026\/05\/Jean-Francis-594x1024.png 594w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/files\/2026\/05\/Jean-Francis-768x1323.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/files\/2026\/05\/Jean-Francis-891x1536.png 891w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/files\/2026\/05\/Jean-Francis-1188x2048.png 1188w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/files\/2026\/05\/Jean-Francis.png 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><strong>Jean Francis, MD, Medicine\/Nephrology,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>specializes in the early detection and diagnosis of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), management of BK virus infection, antibody-mediated rejection, recurrent glomerulonephritis and metabolic disorders that occur after kidney transplantation. A UNOS-certified transplant nephrologist, he serves as medical director of the kidney transplant program at Boston Medical Center (BMC), clinical co-director of the ARC on thrombosis and medical director of the Pancreas Transplant Program at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital. He founded and co-leads the TMA Team at BMC, establishing an integrated clinical-research model that has improved patient outcomes, which has been adopted by other institutions. Additionally, he co-founded the New England BK Consortium, standardizing BK virus protocols across 14 transplant programs, and serves as its quality director.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Francis also established the Live Kidney Donation Task Force at BMC to address disparities in transplantation through culturally informed education, community outreach and enhanced donor identification. In parallel, he co-leads the IgA Nephropathy Task Force and the<span>\u00a0<\/span>Thrombotic Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia Program,<span>\u00a0<\/span>where he has advanced mechanism-based treatment protocols that have been adopted across the renal section and presented at national forums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Francis, MD, Medicine\/Nephrology,\u00a0specializes in the early detection and diagnosis of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), management of BK virus infection, antibody-mediated rejection, recurrent glomerulonephritis and metabolic disorders that occur after kidney transplantation. A UNOS-certified transplant nephrologist, he serves as medical director of the kidney transplant program at Boston Medical Center (BMC), clinical co-director of the ARC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}