UNC Kidney Center Fellows and Directors 2009: Front, from left: So Yoon Jang, Heather Stewart, Vimal Derebail, Andy Bomback, UNC Kidney Center Director Ron Falk. Back, from left: Christina Kahl, William Primack, K. Dionne Posey, Adult Fellowship Program Director Romulo Colindres, Julie McGregor. Not Pictured: Fellow Tariq Abo-Kamil.
The purpose of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension Fellowship Program is to provide excellent patient care, research, and teaching pertaining to disorders of the kidney. Clinical activities are focused around the care of patients with acute and chronic loss of renal function, glomerular and vascular disorders, abnormalities of acid-base and salt and water balance, disorders of mineral metabolism, primary and secondary forms of hypertension, renal osteodystrophy, nephrolithiasis, evaluation of renal disorders of pregnancy, polycystic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, renal transplantation, and other disorders of the kidney.
Patient care is practiced within the University of North Carolina Hospitals on a specialty renal ward service, a nephrology consult service, an acute dialysis unit, and 6 extra-mural chronic dialysis units.
Research activities span the spectrum from basic research into the pathogenesis of renal disorders to small- and large-scale clinical trials and epidemiology studies. Primary areas of interest center around areas of molecular immunology and physiology, cardiovascular epidemiology, and clinical trials. Adjunct and divisional faculty provide access to many different areas of clinical and basic science research.
Teaching curriculum spans the spectrum of a Urinary Systems Course for 2nd year medical students, and targeted Nephrology curricula for Medicine residents, and Nephrology fellows. The Division has been most active in postgraduate continuing education of internists and nephrologists (i.e. The Glomerular Disease Collaborative Network). Close interaction with Nephropathology (Dr. Charles Jennette and colleagues), Vascular Radiology and vascular, and renal transplant surgeons has served to broaden the divisional scope. The division looks forward to continued expansion of its clinical activities, and research interests now that it is linked with the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health through a training grant.
Fellows choose from three programs: a two-year clinical training program, a three-year combined clinical nephrology/masters of public health with a focus on skills for clinical research, and a three-year research fellowship with a total focus on basic science research training and a one year clinical training program. The division has five fellows involved in the clinical training program at all times. This is in addition to the fellows involved in basic science or epidemiological research. The division accepts two to three new fellows for the clinical track every year.
Director:
Gerald Hladik, MD
Phone: (966)-2561 x 255
Office Location: 7024 Burnett-Womack
Email: gerald_hladik@med.unc.edu