Organization

Director

Alan Yu, M.D. - Professor/Director, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Research Scientists and Clinicians

Dale Abrahamson, Ph.D. - University Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology

Udayan Apte, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Gustavo Blanco, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

James Calvet, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Arnold Chonko, M.D., F.A.C.P. - Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Dennis Diederich, M.D., F.A.C.P. - Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Patrick Fields, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Timothy Fields, M.D., Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Jared Grantham, M.D., University Distinguished Professor and Kidney Institute Director Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Department of Internal Medicine-Harry Statland Professor of Nephrology

Aditi Gupta, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Amna Ilahe, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Robin Maser, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Ellen McCarthy, M.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Stephen Parnell, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Reena Rao, MPhil, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Peter Rowe, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Intermal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Virginia Savin, M.D. - Professor, VA Medical Center- Department of Nephrology

Madhulika Sharma, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor

Theresa Shireman, Ph.D., R.Ph., -Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine & Public Health

Jason Stubbs, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Katherine Swenson-Fields, Ph.D. - Research Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology

Pamela Tran, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology

Ahmad Tuffaha, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Darren Wallace, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Connie Wang, M.D. James Wetmore, M.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Franz Winklhofer, M.D. - Associate Professor/Fellowship Director, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Sri Yarlagadda, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Nephrology & Hypertension

Affiliated Scientists and Clinicians

Igor Boulatnikov, Ph.D. - Senior Scientist

Larry Cook, Ph.D. - Diagnostic Radiology

Paul Schloerb, M.D. - Professor, Department of Internal Medicine- Surgery

Brooke Steenhard, Ph.D. - Senior Research Associate

Lawrence Sullivan, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology

Adrian Zelenchuk, Ph.D. - Senior Research Associate

Administration

Mayme Collard- Fellowship Coordinator

Amanda Gellhaus- Medical Administrative Assistant

Lyn Harris - Administrative Director

Heather Holferty- Medical Administrative Assistant

Laraine McCray- Administrative Assistant

Nurse Study Coordinators

Sheri Copeland, R.N., B.S.N. - Research Coordinator

Beth Courtney, R.N., B.S.N. - Clinical Research Coordinator

Catherine Creed, R.N., B.S.N. - Study Coordinator

Kristian Fowler, A.R.N.P. - Nursing Case Manager

Pam Lanza, R.N. - Study Coordinator

Marilyn Logan, R.N. - Clinical Research Coordinator

Research Fellows and Postdocs

Thomas Alderson II, M.D. - Fellow

Kaleem Aslam, M.D. - Fellow

Dina Corbin, MBChB - Fellow

Munis Mattu, M.D. - Fellow

Ronnie Moussa, M.D. - Fellow

Cibele Pinto, Ph.D. - Postdoc

Bassam Shakil, M.D. - Fellow

Shixin Tao, Ph.D. - Postdoc

Jessica Rossol-Allison, Ph.D. - Postdoc

Shiqin Zhang, Ph.D. - Postdoc

Research Staff

Anne-Marie Hedge, B.S. - Research Associate

Brenda Magenheimer, B.S. - Senior Research Associate/ Resources Manager

Lynn Magenheimer, M.S. - Research Assistant

Emily Nivens, B.S. - Research Assistant

Kayleigh Peterson, B.A. - Research Assistant

Madhumitha Rajogapal, B.S. - Senior Research Associate

Gail Reif, B.S. - Research Assistant

Michael Schonfeld, B.S. - Research Assistant

Pat St. John, B.S. - Lab Director

Larysa Stroganova, B.S. - Research Assistant

Erin Sunderman, B.S.- Research Assistant

Carolyn Vivian, M.S. - Senior Research Associate

Shuhua Wang, B.S. - Research Assistant

Corey White, B.S. - Research Assistant

Lesya Zelenchuk, B.S. - Research Associate

Jianping Zhou, B.S. - Research Associate

Min Zhou, B.S. - Research Assistant

Graduate Students

Kyle Jansson

Jiahua Li

Jacqueline Peda

Lei Pei

Sally Salah