Scholarship is an important part of our fellowship experience.

• We provide protected time and funds for all our first-year fellows to attend the National Kidney Foundations Annual Spring Clinical Meeting and second-years, the American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting.

• Fellows are required to participate in the following scholarly activities:

• Submission of a first-author abstract (typically, a case report) to the National Kidney Foundation Annual Spring Clinical Meeting and the American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting

• Participation in a peer review of an original research manuscript submitted to a major nephrology journal, under the guidance of a faculty mentor

• Design and implementation of a quality improvement project

• Fellows can also participate in clinical research projects based on their individual career goals. Below are research topics pursued by recent fellows:

• GI bleeding in patients with advanced CKD

• Rhabdomyolysis-induced AKI in patients with opioid-used disorder

• Glomerular disease in patients with opioid-use disorder

• Kidney disease in lung and heart transplant recipients

• Pulmonary hypertension in dialysis-dependent patients

Our faculty publish in a variety of areas, including lupus nephritis, pregnancy in solid-organ transplant recipients, hemodialysis and transplant social networks, innovations in nephrology education, and the nephrology workforce.

 We are a clinical site for several multi-center clinical trials.

 We participate in a regional training grant through the NIH (PERFORM-KUH), which provides funding for two years of mentored research and formal research training https://www.niddk.nih.gov/research-funding/process/apply/funding-mechanisms/tl1/u2c-tl1