Vimal Derebail, MD, wins 2nd place in the National Kidney Foundation’s Spring Clinical Meetings abstract competition

There were more than 350 posters in competition at the event.

Dr. Derebail, a current renal epidemiology trainee at the UNC Kidney Center, won 2nd place for his abstract entitled “Variant Hemoglobin May Affect Erythropoietin Response in African-Americans Receiving Hemodialysis”. Co-authors are Patrick H. Nachman,Nigel S. Key, Heather Ansede, Ronald J. Falk, and Abhijit V. Kshirsagar.

Press release on Dr. Derebail’s abstract.