PKD Center Members

The Kansas PKD Center has a multidisciplinary makeup. Among the 28 members, there are members with primary faculty appointments at the KUMC School of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, Divisions of Nephrology & Hypertension and Hematology & Oncology; the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology; and five basic science departments, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics, and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. The Center also has members at the KUMC School of Health Professions in the Department of Dietetics & Nutrition and the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Thus, there are members with primary appointments in eight different KUMC departments and two different divisions within Internal Medicine. In addition, there are members at KU-Lawrence, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Emory University.

Membership Roster: 2015-2016

First	Last	Institution	Membership Type
Udayan	Apte	KUMC	Full
Gustavo	Blanco	KUMC	Full
Matt	Buechner	KU	Full
James	Calvet	KUMC	Full
Bhaskar	Das	KUMC	Affiliate
Mireille	El Ters	KUMC	Full
Tim	Fields	KUMC	Full
Jared	Grantham	KUMC	Emeritus
Jill	Hamilton-Reeves	KUMC	Full
Pinelopi	Kapitsinou	KUMC	Affiliate
Adam	Krieg	KUMC	Affiliate
Xiaogang	Li	KUMC	Full
Robin	Maser	KUMC	Full
Stephen	Parnell	KUMC	Full
Ken	Peterson	KUMC	Full
Michele	Pritchard	KUMC	Full
Reena	Rao	KUMC	Full
Madhulika	Sharma	KUMC	Affiliate
Chad	Slawson	KUMC	Affiliate
Jason	Stubbs	KUMC	Affiliate
Katherine	Swenson-Fields	KUMC	Full
Pam	Tran	KUMC	Full
Darren	Wallace	KUMC	Full
Chris	Ward	KUMC	Full
Franz	Winklhofer	KUMC	Full
Alan	Yu	KUMC	Full
External Members	Last	Institution	Membership Type
Arlene	Chapman	Emory	Full
Leslie	Lyons	University of Missouri	Full

Criteria for Membership

The Administrative Core has the responsibility for establishing criteria for center membership. These criteria will be established by the Internal Advisory Committee and reviewed on a yearly basis, as will the membership roster. The Core Center leadership has determined that center membership should meet the following criteria:

Full Center Membership Guidelines

• Faculty position at a regional Kansas City academic or research institution
• Desire to promote the mission of the Kansas PKD Research and Translation Core Center
• PKD research project that will require the use of one or more of the biomedical research cores
• PKD research interest in at least one of the areas of research emphasis
• Interest in collaborating with other PKD Core Center members
• PKD research grant as PI or Co-I in the past 3 years and ongoing effort to continue PKD grant funding
• Publication in the PKD field and desire to continue research on PKD, or currently active research project in the PKD field that has promise of eventual publication.
• Interest in contributing to the Educational Enrichment Program of the Core Center

Affiliate membership would apply to investigators who have a beginning interest in PKD research and have the potential to become a full center member. The important criterion for affiliate membership is that a researcher should have a collaboration with a full member, but it is not necessary to have PKD funding or PKD publications yet. The following are the criteria for affiliate center membership:

Affiliate Center Membership Guidelines

• Faculty position at a regional Kansas City academic or research institution
• Desire to promote the mission of the Kansas PKD Research and Translation Core Center
• Interest in exploring research in PKD
• Interest in use of one or more of the biomedical research cores
• Research interest in at least one of the areas of research emphasis
• Collaboration with one of the full PKD Core Center members
• Interest in contributing to the Educational Enrichment Program of the Core Center