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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE
 
 

NEPHROLOGY AND HYPERTENSION
CLINICAL PROGRAMS

  1. Renal Replacement Therapy Programs
    1. Hemodialysis-currently caring for ~400 patients managed primarily in cooperation with the Community Dialysis Care (CDC) system, operating 14 satellite dialysis units throughout northeast Ohio.  Medical Director-Jay Wish
    2. Peritoneal  Dialysis-currently caring for ~30 patients
    3. Home Dialysis –a unique program offering “daily” (4-5 times weekly) home dialysis after extensive patient training.  Medical Director- Carolyn Cacho Bowman
    4. Kidney Transplantation- caring for ~1000 patients including ~80 new patients per year.  Includes three ½ day post-transplant clinics and three ½ day pre-transplant clinics (devoted to evaluation of kidney transplant recipients  and donors.)  Medical Director: Donald Hricik
  2. General Nephrology – VA Medical Center
    VA Interdisciplinary Diabetes Clinic- Medical Director- Richard T. Miller
  3. Renal Treatment Clinic
    Offering outpatient services such as IV infusions, subcutaneous injections and patient education services.  Medical Director-Lavinia Negrea
  4. Continuity Clinic
    An educational clinic providing one-on-one teaching for nephrology fellows. Medical Director- Michael Smith
  5. Clinical Hypertension
    A clinical program heavily oriented towards the recruitment of patients into clinical  trials.  Medical Director-Jackson T. Wright, Jr.,

 
 
 
 

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