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Mission Statement for the Division of Pediatric Nephrology

The mission of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology is to maintain excellence in the areas of patient care, education and research related to childhood kidney diseases. The division is a regional resource for evaluation of children with kidney disease and hypertension and has active pediatric dialysis and kidney transplantation programs. Members of the division are involved in the education of medical students, pediatric residents and medicine-pediatric residents. The division maintains an accredited pediatric nephrology fellowship-training program. Members of the division regularly participate in public and professional education through involvement with the National Kidney Foundation of West Tennessee. The division has active clinical and laboratory research programs. The division’s philosophy is that in order for progress to be made in the clinical and pathogenetic understanding of childhood kidney disease, clinical trials for glomerular disorders, hypertension, dialysis and transplantation should be available for our patients.

The Division of Pediatric Nephrology was featured in the Fall 2007 Le Bonheur Magazine

On 7/15/2009 Dr. John Sanders, 3rd year pediatric nephrology fellow, will present Grand Rounds on Cystic Kidney Disease in the Le Bonheur auditorium at 8:00 AM.

Dr. John Sanders will receive a Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center small grant for $5,000 for the 2nd year of his study "Non-Invasive Diagnosis of IgA Nephropathy." Dr. Sanders has a $50,000 fellowship training grant from the National Kidney Foundation for this project (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010).

Dr. Matthew Eison will receive a Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center small grant for $12,000 for his project "Effect of IgA1-Complexes on ACE2 in Mesangial Cells" for the period July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010. His mentors for this project are Dr. Robert Wyatt, Dr. KU Malik in the Department of Pharmacology and Dr. Jan Novak at the University of Alabama at Birmningham.

On 4/24/2009 Dr. Bettina Ault received the Gift of Life Award at the annual gala held by the National Kidney Foundation of West Tennessee. Dr. Ault was honored for her long time work as a board member and for the directing the organization of the yearly experience at Camp Okawhena for children from the Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center's transpant and dialysis programs.

Dr. Shane Roy III, who founded the division of pediatric nephrology at the UTHSC, died on March 27, 2009. Dr. Roy made numerous important contributions to pediatric nephrology and was beloved by his colleagues and patients.

On 3/27/2009 Dr. Colleen Hastings gave a presentation on "Transitioning Children with Chronic Renal Disease from Childhood to Adulthood" at the Challenges in Children's Health/Etteldorf Symposium, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis.

Dr. John Sanders was awarded a fellowship training grant from the National Kidney Foundation. The grant, "Non-invasive diagnosis of IgA nephropathy" will begin July 1, 2008. Dr. Robert J. Wyatt and Dr. Jan Novak (University of Alabama at Birmingham) are co-sponsors. The grant is one of only 26 awarded nationally by the NKF for 2008-2009 and is supported f by the National Kidney Foundation Strides for IgA Nephropathy Fellowship.

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