The 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 emphasis on the management of immunosuppressive agents and the evaluation or renal transplant dysfunction.
Program Details
The Transplant Renal Medicine Fellowship Program consists of:
- Transplant in-patient rotation – 6 months
- Outpatient transplant clinic - minimum 10 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. He/she will supervise 2 mid-level providers and work closely with the first year fellow to provide clinical care of the patients on inpatient and outpatient services. The transplant renal medicine fellow will be supervised by the inpatient transplant renal medicine faculty while on inpatient service for 6 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 6 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.
Training Sessions
Conferences/weekly seminars:
- Weekly Transplant Seminars
Weekly clinical conferences:
- Pathology conference - 1st Wednesday
- Protocol Meetings 2nd - Wednesday
- Transplant Journal Club - 3rd Wednesday
- QAPI meetings - 4th Wednesday
- Weekly Nephrology Grand Rounds
Apply
The Transplant Renal Medicine Fellowship Program year is July 1 – June 30. If you are interested in applying to this program for the 2020-2021 program year, please complete the application and forward it along with your CV and three letters of recommendation to:
Kimberly Reese, M.Ed.
Program Coordinator
Emory Transplant Center
1365 Clifton Road, NE
Building B, Suite 6100
Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: 404-712-6574