Renal Pathology One Year or Two Year Fellowship Position

Renal Pathology One Year or Two Year Fellowship position available for academic year 2014-15.

RENAL PATHOLOGY FELLOWSHIP

Renal/EM Division, Department of Pathology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Director: Agnes B. Fogo, M.D.

The Division of Renal Pathology/Electron Microscopy in the Department of Pathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, offers a Fellowship in Renal Pathology each year starting on July 1. Either a one-year-fellowship with clinical focus or a two-year fellowship with clinical training and in-depth clinicopathologic or basic research is available.

The fellowship is under the direction of Agnes B. Fogo, M.D., John L. Shapiro Professor of Pathology, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Paisit Paueksakon, M.D., Associate Professor Pathology, is a faculty member of the Division of Renal Pathology and participates actively in the fellows training. The Fellow is directly involved in the diagnostic evaluation of all renal biopsies received annually by the Renal Pathology Laboratory at Vanderbilt. These cases represent largely native (70%) as well as transplant (30%) renal biopsies, with both adult and pediatric cases. The current volume is about 1,400 cases/year, of which 70% are cases from outside hospitals in the region for primary diagnosis and consults from other countries.

The Fellow will be expected to work independently in preparing cases for sign-out by the faculty using light, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. Fellows will also present cases at clinical conferences held jointly with the Nephrology and Renal Transplant Divisions, have ample exposure to clinical teaching conferences, actively participate in teaching renal pathology to medical students, residents and nephrology fellows, and attend weekly departmental surgical pathology slide conferences. Fellows are expected to pursue an academic project, e.g., clinical teaching case reports. Fellows are encouraged and funds are generally available to attend a yearly scientific meeting during their training.