Kidney Diseases & Hypertension

Fourth-year medical student and kidney donor Jacob Lambdin honors mentor J. Keith Melancon, MD, by requesting the renowned transplant surgeon hood him at graduation.

Keith Melancon, MD, medical director of the Ron and Joy Paul Kidney Center, director of the Transplant Institute, and professor of surgery, spoke to NBC4 at the NBC4 Health & Fitness Expo about the need for more organ donors.

Dominic Raj, MD, received a research grant from Relypsa to investigate the role of the microbiome in potassium homeostasis.

Kidney recipient Chadia Yacoubou and kidney donor Claire Merwin met for the first time on Aug. 14. They two represent the 100th kidney exchange through the GW Transplant Institute. 

Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., answered this question at the annual Irene Tamagna Lecture on Hypertension in early May.

GW's Yolanda Haywood, M.D., RESD ’87, CERT ’04, B.S. ’81, and J. Keith Melancon, M.D., Ph.D., were named among BlackDoctor.org’s 2017 Top Blacks in Healthcare honorees.

A research team at Children’s National Health System, led by Zhe Han, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Cancer & Immunology Research, published a report in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology about a dietary supplement that has demonstrated the ability to reverse…

Four years ago, Jose Reyes found out he had stage four kidney disease. He was put on transplant lists in Washington, D.C. and in Maryland, but as he started dialysis, his health was deteriorating. For nearly nine months, he waited.

Keith Melancon, M.D., director of the GW Transplant Institute and professor of surgery, and the Ron and Joy Paul Kidney Center were mentioned in articles published by The Washington Informer about the importance of kidney education and transplants in Washington, D.C.

Ron Paul, chairman and CEO of the Eagle Bancorp and Eagle Bank, and founder of the Ron and Joy Paul Kidney Center, published an op-ed in The Washington Post about the need for the GW Hospital's Kidney Transplant Institute.