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UNC Kidney Center faculty and trainees’ summer publications focus on education and management of chronic kidney disease, validity of Medicare claims data for glomerular disease, and new insights into autoantibodies. Recent Publications

The UNC Nephrology fellows have presented the Maestro Award to Randy Detwiler, MD, Professor of Medicine and Transplant Nephrology Program Director. This annual award is bestowed upon a faculty member who has shown “outstanding commitment and excellence in teaching.” Full Story

The UNC Kidney Center is a participating site in the Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network, or NEPTUNE, and is now open for enrollment. To learn more about the study, see if you are eligible, and join the contact registry, click here.

Upcoming Events

The Kidney Education Outreach Program (KEOP) will conduct a free screening at El Centro Hispano health fair in Durham, NC on Saturday, September 25. Click here for calendar.

KEOP will travel to Sampson County on Friday, October 1 for a kidney screening at Clinton Drug Company. Click here for calendar.

Registration is now open for the 15th International Vasculitis & ANCA Workshop, hosted in Chapel Hill in May 2011. Click here for more information.

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The mission of the UNC Kidney Center is to reduce the burden of chronic kidney disease through discovery about the pathophysiology and therapeutics of the disease; through the development and assessment of educational programs about kidney disease for North Carolinians and their primary care physicians and by providing physicians and citizens access to information about the causes and treatments of kidney disease.