EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Nephrology Fellowship (2000-2003)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Internal Medicine Residency (1998-2000)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Internal Medicine Residency (1996-1998)
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Post Doctoral Fellowship (1993-1996)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Medical School
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
SITE OF PRACTICE:
University of Washington Medical Center
CONTACT INFORMATION
Division of Nephrology
Box 356521
University of Washington
1959 NE Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195-6521
Email:
rpichler@u.washington.edu
Administrative
Contacts:
http://depts.washington.edu/nephron/admin.htm |
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Raimund
Pichler, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Director, Diabetic Kidney Disease Clinic
Director, Liver-Kidney Clinic
President, Northwest Renal Society
CLINICAL INTERESTS
- Diabetic kidney disease
- Renal failure in
patients with liver disease
-
Glomerulonephritis
- Hypertension
- Kidney transplantation
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Developing
guidelines for the evaluation of patients with ESLD and concomitant
renal failure
- Mechanisms
of .tubulointerstitial injury
- Experimental models of renal
disease
CURRENT RESEARCH
-
Role of
renal biopsy in evaluating liver transplant candidates with
concomitant renal failure
- Development of
an
albumin-dialysis system for the treatment of patients with ESLD (with
Dr. Ahmad)
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS:
Raimund Pichler
and Stuart Shankalnd: Glomerular Diseases. ACP Medicine 2006; volume 2,
pp 2042-2061.
Pichler R,
Giachelli C, Lombardi D, Pippin J, Gordon K, Alpers CE, Schwartz SM,
Johnson RJ: Tubulointerstitial Disease in Glomerulonephritis: Potential
Role of Osteopontin (Uropontin). Am. J. of Pathology 1994; 144:915-926
Pichler R,
Giachelli C, Young B, Alpers CE, Couser WG, Johnson RJ: The pathogenesis
of tubulointerstitial disease associated with glomerulonephritis.: The
glomerular cytokine theory. Minceral Elektrolyte Metabolism 1995; 21:
317-327
Pichler R,
Granceschini N, Young B, Burdmann E, Andoh T, Hugo C, Alpers CE, Bennett
WG< Couser WG, Johnson RJ: Pathogenesis of Cyclosporine Nephropathy:
Roles of Angiotensin II and Osteopontin. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 1995; 6:
1186-1196
Pichler RH,
Bassuk JA, Hugo C, Reed M, Eng E, Gordon KL, Pippin J, Alpers CE, Couser
WG, Sage EH, Johsnon RJ: SPARC is expressed by mesangial cells in
experimental mesagnial proliferative nephritis and inhibits PDGF-mediated
mesagnial cell proliferation in vitro. Am. J. of Pathology 1996;
148-115
NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
Member,
ASTS/AST Combined
Kidney/Liver Transplant Consensus Conference
President,
Northwest Renal Society
Member, American Society of Nephrology
Member, International Society of Nephrology
Member, Washington State Medical Association
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