EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Nephrology Fellowship (1983-84; 85-86)
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, TX

Research Fellow (1984-85)
Ludwig Maximillan Universitat, Physiologisches
Institut Munchen, BRD

Medicine Residency (1980-83)
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, TX

Medical School (1976-80)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board, Nephrology
American Board, Internal Medicine

SITE OF PRACTICE:
University of Washington Medical Center

CONTACT INFORMATION
University of Washington
Division of Nephrology, Box 356174
1959 NE Pacific St., EE406
Seattle, WA 98195-6521
Phone: (206) 598-8455
Fax:  (206) 598-2208
Email: cdavis@u.washington.edu

More contacts at: http://depts.washington.edu/
nephron/admin.htm


 

Connie Davis, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Director, Kidney Care Line
Medical Director, Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation

Specialty:   Transplantation, pregnancy and kidney disease, liver failure and kidney disease, non-renal transplant related kidney disease


 

CLINICAL INTERESTS

  • Kidney transplant

  • Desensitization of the sensitized transplant candidate

  • Pregnancy and Kidney disease

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Desensitization of the sensitized transplant candidate

  • Outcomes of the living renal donor

  • Pharmacogenomics and calcineurin inhibitor nephrotoxicity

 CURRENT RESEARCH

  • Investigating if treatment with  mycophenolate mofetil will decrease the levels of antidonor antibodies int eh highly sensitized patient on the kidney transplant waiting list

  • Investigating if treatment with  rituximab will decrease the levels of antidonor antibodies int eh highly sensitized patient on the kidney transplant waiting list

  • Evaluating new markers of kidney injury in liver transplant recipients

  • Donor awareness in the Native American population

  • The role of HPV in the development of squamous cell cancer in kidney transplant recipients

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Connie L. Davis, M.D.Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D., Randall Sung, M.D. Florence Wong, M.D. Nathan P. Goodrich, M.S.,Larry B. Melton, M.D., PhD., K. Rajender Reddy, M.D., Mary K. Guidinger, M.S.Alan Wilkinson, M.D., John Lake, M.D. Simultaneous liver kidney transplantation:  Evaluation to decision making.  Am J Transplant 2007;7(7):1702-1709

 

Smith JM, Corey L, Healey PJ, Davis CL, McDonald RA.Adolescents are more likely to develop posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder after primary Epstein-Barr virus infection than younger renal transplant recipients.  Transplantation. 2007 Jun 15;83(11):1423-8.

 

Dai Y, Hebert MF, Isoherranen N, Davis CL, Marsh C, Shen DD, Thummel KE. Effect of CYP3A5 polymorphism on tacrolimus metabolic clearance in vitro. Drug Metab Dispos. 2006 May;34(5):836-47

 

Erika Bracamonte, MD, Nicolae Leca, MD, Kelly D Smith MD, PhD, Roberto F Nicosia, MD, PhD, Volker Nickeleit, MD, Elizabeth Kendrick, MD, Paul S Furmanczyk, MD, Connie L Davis, MD, Charles E Alpers, MD and Jolanta Kowalewska, MD. Tubular basement membrane Immune deposits in association with BK polyomavirus nephropathy.  Am J Transplant 2007;7(6):1552-1560.

 

Davis CL, Delmonico FL.  Current Status of Living Kidney Donation, J Am Soc Nephrology 2005 Jul;16(7):2098-3110.

 

AWARDS

  • Best Doctors in America, 2007-2008, 2005, 2003-04, 2002-03

  • American Society of Transplantation Fujisawa Clinical Science Award, June 2003

 

NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Board of Directors, American Society of Transplantation (AST), year 2000-2003

  • Board Member, Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation (NKC), 2005-07

  • Co-Chair (and Chair-Elect), Women’s Community of Practice, American Society of Transplantation (AST), 2005-08

  • Past Editorial Boards, JASN, American Journal of Kidney Diseases and Liver Transplantation through 2006

  • Editorial Board American Journal of Transplantation, 2007 to present

  • Chair, Transplant Advisory Committee of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), June 2005- June 2006

  • Public Policy Committee Board, ASN, 2005-07

  • Chair, AST Audit Committee, 2004-2007

  • Representative, ASN UNOS, 2004-06

  • Member UNOS living donor committee

 




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