The Purpose/Mission of the Renal Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital is to provide quality care to patients with all types of acute and chronic diseases of the kidney, while maintaining an outstanding research program to develop new knowledge relevant to the normal and diseased kidney, with focus on developmental abnormalities, acquired alterations of metabolic function, and immunological/inflammatory processes. To this end, the Renal Division maintains active clinical facilities for inpatient and ambulatory care, including acute and chronic dialysis, and renal transplantation in concert with the Department of Surgery. Training in nephrology, shared with the MGH, is an essential component of our activities.
Our major accomplishments/goals: The clinical activity has expanded to meet the growing need for hospital acute care, as well as responding to the growing population of end stage renal disease patients on dialysis support. In addition to providing consultant services to the West Roxbury VA Hospital, we have taken on responsibility for the Faulkner Hospital and Spaulding Hospital, as well as an increasing number of Harvard-Vanguard clinic sessions.
The Joint Nephrology Training Program at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, now in its 4th year, provides applicants with an open choice of laboratories/mentors where they will spend 3 years. The clinical year is rotated with equal time at each site. Feedback from the fellows is quite favorable. A programmatic goal is to improve the formal training of fellows who wish to make a career in clinical investigation. At present we provide some opportunity for them to take courses at the Harvard School of Public Health. Development of a clinical investigation component with senior leadership in the Division is a goal.
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