Kidney Diseases & Hypertension
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in concert with GW Hospital and the GW Medical Faculty Associates, has established the Ron & Joy Paul Kidney Center to raise awareness about kidney disease and increase live kidney donation in Washington, D.C.
Dominic Raj, M.D., director of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension and professor of medicine, participated in a multi-site landmark study finding cardiovascular disease morbidity is significantly reduced through intensive management of high blood pressure.
Community members gathered to hear SMHS doctors discuss innovations in kidney research and donations.
A review article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Paul Kimmel, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, and Lakhmir Chawla, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, presenting acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease as interconnected syndromes, was…
Paul Kimmel, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, and Lakhmir Chawla, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, published a review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, calling for greater follow-up care of patients with acute kidney injury, who often…
Paul Marvar, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, was awarded a $721,435 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study stress-induced hypertension and its effects on the neuroimmune system.
Charles Faselis, M.D., associate professor of medicine, and Peter Kokkinos, Ph.D., adjunct professor of physical therapy and health care sciences, were published in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension for their study, "Exercise Capacity and All-Cause Mortality in Male Veterans…
Dominic Raj, M.D., professor of medicine, was quoted in a Washington Business Journal article announcing that the George Washington University Hospital will now be able to provide high-quality renal disease services in the Washington D.C. region.
Dominic Raj, M.D., director of the division of nephrology and professor of medicine, was quoted in a Science Daily article about his research recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, “APOL1 Risk Variants, Race, and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease.”
A large study co-authored by Dominic Raj, M.D., director of the division of nephrology and professor of medicine, identifies factors that mediate differences in the progression of chronic kidney disease in order to reduce the excess burden of end-stage renal disease and its complications in black…