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8 unusual facts about Nephrology


Bustamante Hospital for Children

The hospitals deals with General Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Asthma and Respiratory ailments, Nephrology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Ears, Nose and Throat (ENT), Plastic and Burns, Ophthalmology and more.

Dakahlia Governorate

The Urology and Nephrology Center of Mansoura University Faculty of Medicine also features a renowned kidney center.

Hernán Padilla

After 1984, he returned to medical practice as a nephrologist, serving at the National Capital Area for Kaiser Permanente.

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital

The Jayaramdas Patel Academic Centre (JPAC), which is attached to the hospital, is an academic centre that supports the hospital, by conducting 3-year DNB courses in Nephrology, Urology and Anaesthesiology, as well as conducting various super specialty training programmes on all aspects of Urology and nephrology.

Nils Alwall

Subsequently he used such shunts, made of glass, as well as his canister-enclosed dialyzer, to treat 1500 patients in renal failure between 1946 and 1960, as reported to the First International Congress of Nephrology held in Evian in September 1960.

Shuping Scholarship

He founded the scholarship scheme and named it the "Shuping Scholarship For Secondary School Students", in memory of his father Koo Shuping, who died of Acute Kidney Disease at the young age of 42.

Silas Warner

Warner died in March 2004 after a long battle with kidney disease.

Skejby Sygehus

Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, has eight medical specialities: Infectious disease, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic surgery, Nephrology, Urology, Pediatrics, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, and peripheral vascular diseases.


American Society for Apheresis

ASFA represents a broad range of health care professionals involved in apheresis medicine including those practicing pathology, transplantation, hematology, oncology, neurology, rheumatology, nephrology, hepatology, gastroenterology, cardiology, and ophthamology.

Bernd Schröppel

He completed his residency training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and his nephrology and transplant fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Clinical Physiology

In the health care systems of other countries, the tests performed in Clinical Physiology are often performed by the various organ specialties in Internal medicine, such as Cardiology, Pulmonology, Nephrology, etc.

Dana Shires

In 1965, Dana Shires was a research fellow at the University of Florida working in the nephrology lab under Dr. Robert Cade.

Indus Hospital

Presently the services that are being offered in outpatient or inpatient categories include nephrology, urology, cardiology, cardiac surgery, general medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics, ENT, infectious diseases and pain management.

John Wennberg

His postgraduate training was in internal medicine and nephrology at Johns Hopkins, but he became interested in the application of epidemiological principles to the health care system while pursuing his master’s degree in Public Health at Johns Hopkins.

Joseph W. Eschbach

On September 26, 2007 the Northwest Kidney Centers based in Seattle, WA and Kirin-Amgen announced an honorary gift to the University of Washington Division of Nephrology to establish the Joseph W. Eschbach Endowed Chair in Kidney Research.

Tan Chorh Chuan

He is Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore and Senior Consultant at the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital (NUH).


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