Faculty

FACULTY RECRUITMENT, RECOGNITION & SERVICE: Nephrology

During the 2012-2013 academic year, the division welcomed six new faculty members: Daniel Hu and Sundararaman Swaminathan (associate professors); Gayle Vranic (assistant professor, former UVA fellow in kidney transplantation); and John Hayes and Joshua King (instructors). In addition, two assistant professors were hired to start in July 2013: Brendan Bowman, Angie Nishio-Lucar and Jwalant Patel.

Division faculty members have received numerous awards and recognition from peers and colleagues during 2012-2013. At the Department of Medicine awards ceremony for 2012, Thu Le received the Outstanding Research award; Garland Campbell, the Outstanding Clinical Activity award; and Kambiz Kalantari, the Outstanding Educator award. Kambiz Kalantari was also named to the School of Medicine’s Academy of Distinguished Educators. W. Kline Bolton was inducted into the MilliPub Club by UVA’s Claude Moore Health Sciences Library searchers, in recognition of a single paper that has been cited over 1,000 times

The 2013 “Best Doctors in America” list included four Nephrology faculty members (Bolton, Kalantari, Okusa, Rosner), as did the Castle Connolly “Top Doctors in America” list (Balogun, Bolton, Erdbruegger, Okusa). Other notable achievements:

Rasheed Balogun: Board member, American Society for Apheresis; Council member, International Society for Blood Purification
Shu Man Fu received a 2012 Distinguished Basic Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology, for outstanding contributions to the field of rheumatology.
Thu Le was elected a fellow of the American Heart Association.
Mark Okusa was elected a Councilor of the American Society of Nephrology.
David E. Simmons, Jr., received the 2012 Trailblazer Award from the National Black Nurses Association.

Additional Service

NIH/Center for Scientific Review committees and other grant review committees

Harini Bagavant: NIH Immunobiology study section
Michael Brown: NIH Immunity and Host Defense study section
Umesh Deshmukh: NIH Special Emphasis panel ZDE1 RK (05)
Thu Le: NIH Genetics of Health and Disease study section
Mark Okusa: Member, NIH/NIDDK-F subcommittee on F-Awards
Mitch Rosner: NIH Special Emphasis Panel ZDK1 GRB-J O2
Shu Man Fu: NIH Arthitis, Connective Tissue and Skin Study Section; Department of Defense CDMPP review penal on Lupus and On Immunology

Professional organizations

Emaad Abdel-Rahman: Geriatric Nephrology advisory group and organizing committee; Advances in Geriatric Nephrology scientific committee and course
Mitch Rosner: co-director, American Society of Nephrology (ASN) board review course (San Francisco, August 2012); member, Education Executive Committee, ASN; member, Board of Advisors, Renal Physicians Association; member, Program Committee, Association of Professors of Medicine; co-organizer (with Mark Okusa) of the 2014 Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (to be held at UVA)
Mark Okusa: Councilor, ASN, Public Policy Committee, ASN, Acute Kidney Injury Advisory Group, ASN; Acute Kidney Injury Network

Journals – editorial boards

Rasheed Balogun: Journal of Clinical Apheresis; Journal of the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs
W. Kline Bolton: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Shu Man Fu: Cellular and Molecular Immunology; Clinical Immunology; F1000 Research (Immunology)
Thu Le: American Journal of Physiology; Renal Physiology (associate editor)
Mark Okusa: Kidney International; Journal of the American Society of Nephrology; American Journal of Nephrology
Mitch Rosner: American Journal of Kidney Disease (section editor), Clinical Journal American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, Nephron Clinical Practice
Sundararaman Swaminathan: Kidney International
Rahul Sharma: Modern Research in Inflammation; Advances in Medicine: Immunology section