U.S. News & World Report ranks Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s kidney program among the top in the nation.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is one of the largest and oldest providers of dialysis services in the United States, having first offered hemodialysis in 1968.
Surgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital performed their first kidney transplant in 1963; today transplant surgeons perform almost 200 transplants each year.
Rates of kidney transplant rejection at Barnes-Jewish Hospital are among the lowest in the United States.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is 1 of 7 National Institutes of Health-designated George M. O’Brien Kidney Centers and one of the largest sites for National Institutes of Health-sponsored training of kidney physicians in the United States.
Center of Excellence
Centers of Excellence provide the broadest range of services and expertise.
About the COE ProgramCore Services
To be a PKD Foundation Center of Excellence, a care center offers diagnostic and therapeutic services with identified staff responsible for most services in each of the following disciplines:
- Nephrology
- Radiology
- Nutrition
- Hepatology
- Genetics
- Pain management
- Patient navigation services
Care Team
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Seth Goldberg, MD
PKD primary focus
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Anitha Vijayan, MD
Familiar with PKD
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Marcos Rothstein, MD
Familiar with PKD
Heedeok Han, M.D.
“Our COE designation has been tremendously positive for us, as it has elevated our ability to grow and continue to provide comprehensive, patient-centered care by uniting our multidisciplinary team and implementing best practices, which has directly improved outcomes for our PKD patients.”
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Saint Louis University
SSM Saint Louis University Hospital Polycystic Kidney Diseases (PKD) center brings together ADPKD-focused specialists from many disciplines of care to manage the complexities that ADPKD patients face at every stage of disease. Our ADPKD expert nephrologists see patients in both outpatient and hospital settings and work with pediatric nephrologists, radiologists, hematologists, pain specialists, genetic counselors, dietitians, urologists, cardiologists, transplant surgeons, liver surgeons, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists and social workers to provide comprehensive care for ADPKD patients. We have research programs targeted toward different ADPKD patient stages that are designed to improve health across many dimensions of this challenging condition.
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Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, South County
U.S. News & World Report ranks Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s kidney program among the top in the nation.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is one of the largest and oldest providers of dialysis services in the United States, having first offered hemodialysis in 1968.
Surgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital performed their first kidney transplant in 1963; today transplant surgeons perform almost 200 transplants each year.
Rates of kidney transplant rejection at Barnes-Jewish Hospital are among the lowest in the United States.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is 1 of 7 National Institutes of Health-designated George M. O’Brien Kidney Centers and one of the largest sites for National Institutes of Health-sponsored training of kidney physicians in the United States.
See Location
Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
U.S. News & World Report ranks Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s kidney program among the top in the nation.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is one of the largest and oldest providers of dialysis services in the United States, having first offered hemodialysis in 1968.
Surgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital performed their first kidney transplant in 1963; today transplant surgeons perform almost 200 transplants each year.
Rates of kidney transplant rejection at Barnes-Jewish Hospital are among the lowest in the United States.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is 1 of 7 National Institutes of Health-designated George M. O’Brien Kidney Centers and one of the largest sites for National Institutes of Health-sponsored training of kidney physicians in the United States.
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