Fellowship Faculty
From the moment you begin your fellowship in Nephrology and Hypertension at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, you will work directly with nationally known faculty members who work in a variety of disciplines within the Division. Following is a list of the faculty who work with fellows during their training, along with links to more information about each faculty member.
- Prasad Devarajan, MD
- Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms underlying the response of the kidney to various forms of injury; determinants of renal regeneration shared by the developing kidney.
- Clinical Interest: Novel biomarkers and treatments of acute renal failure
- John J. Bissler, MD
- Clinical Interests: Hemofiltration and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
- Research Interests: DNA biochemistry and the role of intrinsic DNA instability leading to disease; DNA directed mutagenesis within the PKD1 gene.
- Brad Dixon, MD
- Clinical Interests: Polycystic Kidney Disease, biology of bladder augmentation.
- Research Interests: Microenvironmental influences on damage to and repair of DNA.
- Jens Goebel, MD
- Clinical Interests: Improving the clinical care of pediatric kidney transplant recipients and their families, as well as advancing basic and translational investigations into immunological aspects especially relevant to the field of transplantation.
- Research Interests: T lymphocytes, lipid rafts, cardiovascular and metabolic issues especially as related to the long-term outcome of pediatric kidney transplant recipients, efforts to design and modify immunosuppressive protocols for transplant patients.
- Beth Jackson, MD
- Clinical Interests: Voiding dysfunction, spina bifida, neurogenic bladder, urinary tract infection, nocturnal enuresis, clinical outcomes research, clinical trials.
- Research Interests: Bladder dysfunction, the contribution of dietary renal solute load to nocturnal polyuria in children with nocturnal enuresis.
- Paul T. McEnery, MD, Emeritus
- Clinical Interests: Glomerulonephritis, vitamin D resistant rickets, care of the child with end-stage renal disease.
- Research Interests: Classification, natural history, and treatment of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.
- Mark M. Mitsnefes, MD
- Clinical Interests: Care of children with chronic renal disease; hypertension.
- Research Interests: Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in children with chronic renal disease.
- Larry Patterson, MD
- Clinical Interests: Congenital anomalies of the urinary tract.
- Research Interests: Genes expressed during urinary tract development; the possible role of such genes in kidney anomalies.
- C. Frederic Strife, MD
- Clinical Interests: Tubular disorders; end-stage renal disease in children; glomerulonephritis.
- Research Interests: Clinical studies of nutrition and growth in end-stage renal disease; studies in the monitoring and prevention of complications of chronic peritoneal dialysis.
- Clark D. West, MD, Emeritus
- Research Interests: Abnormalities in the complement system in glomerulonephritis.
- Kamyar Zahedi, PhD
- Research Interests: Biology of inflammation, specifically the role of gene regulation in promoting the inflammatory response.
