Thu Le, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, joined our program July 1, 2009. Dr. Le received her M.D. from George Washington University. She completed internship and residency training in Medicine, and fellowship training in nephrology, at Duke University. De. Le was on the faculty at Duke until her recruitment to UVA. She is funded by an RO1 on Genes That Regulate Progression of Kidney Disease and Its Cardiovascular Effects.
G. Adam Campbell, M.D., Instructor of Medicine, joined our program July 1, 2009. Dr. Campbell received his M.D. from UVA and completed internship and residency at the University of Kentucky, and nephrology fellowship at UVA. He will work primarily at Augusta Medical Center.
Jennie Ma, Ph.D., Associate Professor Biostatistics & Epidemiology, has received a secondary appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and CIIR, July 1, 2009. Dr. Ma has many years experience at the University of Minnesota developing the USRDS and will enhance the clinical research enterprise.
Scott Sanoff, M.D., MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, completed his nephrology and transplant fellowship, and a Masters of Public Health degree, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Sanoff will be working with Drs. Keith and Lobo to build our transplant program. Scott's wife, Hanna Sanoff, M.D., has joined the UVA Division of Hematology-Oncology.
Douglas Keith, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, joined the Nephrology Division and the CIIR as Director of Medical Transplantation in 2008. Dr. Keith received his medical school, residency and nephrology fellowship training at the Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota, followed by transplant nephrology training at the Oregon Health and Sciences University. Dr. Keith was in the Division of Nephrology at McGill University Health Center, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, prior to his recruitment to UVA. Dr. Keith's research interests include access to transplantation, and allocation issues in kidney transplantation and outcomes after transplantation, with a particular interest in delayed graft function and chronic allograft nephropathy.
Uta Erdbrügger, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, joined our faculty in December 2008. Dr. Erdbrügger received her medical school training in Germany, followed by internship and residency at Tulane University in New Orleans, and completion of fellowship and research training at the University of North Carolina. She then returned to Germany as a clinical instructor, Division of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School. Dr. Erdbrügger has received laboratory and clinical research training that focuses on the diagnostic and functional role of microparticles in renal diseases. These vesicles are the product of exocytic budding and consist of cytoplasmic components and phospholipids. Recent studies have demonstrated a potential role of these structures as mediators of cellular interactions such as inflammation, coagulation, antigen presentation and apoptosis. Dr. Erdbrügger has a particular clinical interest in inflammatory kidney diseases (glomerulonephritis/ vasculitis) and renal transplantation.