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Email: kah@med.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-2561 x 256
Fax: (919) 966-4251
Office Location: 7029 Burnett-Womack

Katherine H. Falk, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine

Specialty Areas: Clinical Nephrology

Chronology: BS: Virginia Tech, 1973;MD: West Virginia University, 1977;Intern: University of North Carolina, 1977-8;Resident: University of North Carolina, 1978-80;Nephrology Fellow: University of North Carolina, 1980-1;Nephrology Fellow: University of Minnesota, 1981-2;
Instructor, Department of Medicine: University of Minnesota, 1982-3; Director of Home Dialysis: Henepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1983;Internist and Nephrologist: Chapel Hill Internal Medicine, 1984-95;Renal Consultant: University of North Carolina, 1984-Present;
Member: University of North Carolina Medical School Admissions Committee, 1996-Present; Clinical Professor of Medicine: University of North Carolina, Present Position

 

Dr. Falk is interested in the selection, development, and training of physicians at all levels. With a background including over ten years of private clinical practice and current membership on the medical school admissions committee, Falk offers a clear vision to tomorrow's practitioners. She teaches first and second year medical students, and oversees nephrology fellow's clinical visits.

Selected Bibliography:

Huffman KA, Schertz RM, and Mattern WD: An appraisal of the subclavian dialysis catheter. Editorial. The International Journal of Artificial Organs. 6(4): 176-177, 1983.

Schertz RJ, Falk RJ, Huffman KA, Thoman CA, and Mattern WD: Infections associated with subclavian Uldall catheters. Archives of Internal Medicine. 143:52-56, 1983.

Huffman KA, Proteinuria, Chapter 66. Manual of Clinical Problems in Adult Ambulatory Care; Little, Brown & Co., 1985, 1990, 1992.