Transplant Renal Medicine Fellowship Program

The AST-accredited Emory Transplant Renal Medicine Fellowship Program is designed for fellows who have completed training in general nephrology and wish to pursue additional training in transplant nephrology. The goals of the program are to give the transplant fellow training and experience in end-stage renal disease, training in the selection of appropriate transplant recipients and donors, clinical experience in the immediate and long-term care of the transplant recipient, and training in the performance of renal transplant biopsies, along with an emphasis on the management of immunosuppressive agents and the evaluation of renal transplant dysfunction.

Emory Transplant Center is one of the largest transplant centers in the country. In the last year, we performed 375 kidney transplants (270 deceased and 105 living donors), 10 simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplants, 111 liver transplants, 47 heart transplants, and 21 lung transplants. Emory transplant nephrology fellows will gain extensive experience with dual organ transplants such as liver-kidney and heart-kidney and will have the opportunity to rotate with other solid organ transplant services.

During the transplant fellowship, Emory transplant nephrology fellows learn how to do an ultrasound of the transplanted kidney, and how to perform ultrasound-guided kidney transplant biopsy. On average, each transplant nephrology fellow does 50 to 75 kidney transplant biopsies.

Emory Transplant Center has one of the largest cohorts of kidney transplant patients receiving belatacept. Transplant nephrology fellows will gain extensive experience with management of patient on belatacept.

The Transplant Renal Medicine Fellowship Program consists of:

• Transplant in-patient rotation: 6 months

• Outpatient transplant clinic: minimum 9 months (post discharge clinic while on inpatient months)

• HLA lab: 1 month

• Solid organ transplant consult: minimum 2 weeks

• Research: 4 months

The fellow will be the lead team member responsible for the inpatient transplant patients admitted to the transplant renal medicine service. They will supervise two mid-level providers and work closely with the first-year fellow to provide clinical care of the patients on inpatient and outpatient services, and participate/lead the daily multi-disciplinary rounds with Transplant Surgery, Pharmacy. Allied teams while on the inpatient service. The transplant renal medicine fellow will be supervised by the inpatient transplant renal medicine faculty while on inpatient service for six months of the training year. The fellow is expected to see at least 30 new kidney transplant patients for short term and 30 kidney transplant recipients for long term follow-up, as set up in the guidelines by AST.

The training is supervised by eight transplant renal medicine faculty at Emory University School of Medicine and Emory Transplant Center. The fellow will have opportunities to participate in research projects with Emory Transplant Center.

• Weekly Transplant Seminars

• Weekly Clinical Conferences:

  • Pathology conference: 1st Wednesday

  • Clinical Protocol Meetings/Patient Watch-list management: 2nd Wednesday

  • Transplant Journal Club: 3rd Wednesday

  • QAPI meetings: 4th Wednesday

• Weekly Nephrology Grand Rounds

• Participate in weekly Recipient and Donor Evaluation listing conferences while on Outpatient rotations

The Transplant Renal Medicine Fellowship Program year is July 1 – June 30. If you are interested in applying to this program, please complete the application and forward it along with your CV and three letters of recommendation to:

Vicky Webb
Program Coordinator
Emory Transplant Center
1365 Clifton Road, Suite 6100
Atlanta GA 30322
404-712-1820