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Name:

Michelle A. Josephson, MD

 

Department of Primary Appointment:

Medicine

 

Secondary appointments:

Clinical Pharmacology

 

Proposed rank:

Professor

 

Proposed track:

Clinician-Educator

LAY SUMMARY:

Dr. Josephson is an internist who subspecializes in kidney diseases and then supersubspecializes in teaching about, caring for, studying those patients who receive kidney transplants.  She has created, developed and currently directs the UniversityÕs successful accredited transplant fellowship. Her program incorporates didactics, literature reviews, scholarly endeavors, and patient care to train a select group of subspecialized nephrologists. 

 

Her administrative work primarily focuses on running the fellowship, which aside from coordinating the multi-disciplinary group of teachers also entails securing yearly funds.  In addition she coordinates the yearly nephrology schedule and nationally is the President of Women in Nephrology.

 

Dr. Josephson has an active and busy clinical practice in which she spends much of her time in the out patient clinic caring for and evaluating patients with kidney transplants.  She also evaluates the medical suitability of people who would like to donate a kidney.  Most of her work on the in-patient wards is devoted to the transplant patient, though in order to keep up her general nephrology skills she also attends on the general nephrology consult service and the dialysis service.

 

Her scholarly work examines select areas within the unique set of medical complications that afflict transplant patients.  She focuses on 3 areas:  bone disease following transplantation, a type of virus that causes inflammation called BK nephropathy that is seen in immunosuppression persons, and pregnancy after transplant.  She is recognized for this work having published on these areas and presented at both national and international meetings. 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

American College of Physicians

     Elected as Fellow 1996

 

American Society of Nephrology

 

National Kidney Foundation of Illinois

Medical Advisory Board

 

National Kidney Foundation

-Council on Renal Transplantation

 

American Medical Woman's Association

 

American Society of Transplant Physicians

 

Women in Nephrology

 

American Society of Hypertension

 

ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE UNIVERSITY:

 

Leadership

 

Treasurer Women in Nephrology (WIN) Treasurer, 2000 -2003

 

Chair of American Society of TransplantÕs WomenÕs Health Committee 2002-2003

 

Past-chair of American Society of TransplantÕs WomenÕs Health Committee 2003-2004

 

Member Advisory Board Executive Committee member of National Kidney Foundation of Illinois May 2002- 

 

President Elect, Women in Nephrology 2003-2004

 

Invited participant of the ÒLiving Donor Workshop,Ó An AST/NKF sponsored consensus conference, Dallas December 3-4, 2003

 

President, Women in Nephrology 2004-

 

Chair American Society of TransplantationÕs Training and Workforce Committee 2005-

 

Elected as a Councilor to the WomenÕs Health Community of Practice of the American Society of Transplantation, 2005-

 

Elected as  board member of  KDIGO (Kidney Diseases Improving Outcome) as of December 2005

 

Meeting Organizer/Course Directorships

 

Co-chair and organizer of American Society of Transplantation, WomenÕs Health Committee, Consensus Conference: Reproductive issues in transplant recipients: March 1-2, 2003

 

Course Director: ÒCareer Choices in Nephrology,Ó A Women in Nephrology organized symposium at NKF, April 28th, 2004, Chicago, Illinois

 

Program Chair: ÒTreating the HIV Patient: From Nephropathy to TransplantationÓ National Kidney Foundation of Illinois Symposium, Chicago, May 11th, 2005

 

Kidney Diseases: Improving Global Outcome (KDIGO): Planning committee and leader in the

 

Moderator/co-chair

 

Co-chair ÒKidney: steroid-sparing protocolsÓ at the 2002 American Transplant Congress, Washington DC, April 28, 2002

 

Co-chair ÒClinical transplantation: immunosuppression and complications/high-risk recipients, American Society of Nephrology, Philadelphia, PA, November 1, 2002

Co-chair ÒReproductive Issues in Transplant RecipientsÓ at the 2003 American Transplant Congress Sunrise Symposium, Washington DC, June 2, 2003

 

Co-chair  ÒKidney: Protocols to minimize maintenance immunosuppressionÓ at the 2003 American Transplant Congress, Washington DC, June 3, 2003.

 

Served as moderator for a clinical science symposium entitled ÓExpanding the donor poolÓ at the 2003 American Society of Nephrology, San Diego, CA, November 15th, 2003

 

Co-chair ÒSpecial concerns of the female transplant patient: at the 2004 American Transplant Congress Sunrise Symposium, Boston MA May 18th

 

Co-chair ÒAllograft DysfunctionÓ at the 2004 ASN, St Louis, Mo Oct 30th, 2004

 

Co-chair ÒTransplantation in Pregnancy: American Transplant Society Consensus workshopÓ at the 14th World Congress of the International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy (ISSHP) Vienna, Austria, Nov 14-17, 2004

 

Co-chair ÒWomen and Children FirstÓ Session at the 2005 NKF Clinical meetings, Washington D.C., May 7th, 2005

 

Co-chair ÒBK VirusÓ at the 2005 ATC, Seattle WA,  May 22nd 2005

 

Committee member

 

Committee Member of American Society of TransplantÕs (AST) Education Committee 2001-2004

 

Committee Member of American Society of Transplant's (AST) Ad Hoc Women's Health Committee 2000‑

 

Committee member of the American Society of TransplantationÕs Training and Workforce Committee 2003-

 

Abstract review committees

 

Served on the abstract review committee for American Transplant Congress 2002

 

Served on the Transplant Complications Abstract Review Committee for 2002 American Society of Nephrology, Philadelphia, PA

 

Served on the abstract review committee for the American Transplant Congress 2003-

 

Co-chair Abstract review committee (Kidney-Immunosuppression A), American Transplant Congress 2004

 

Served on the abstract review committee for ASN 2004

 

Served on the Abstract Review Committee for ATC 2005

PRESENTATIONS

ÒGender-specific concerns of the female transplant patientÓ Obstetrics educational series lecture March 7th, 2002

 

ÒPushing the envelope: an update in renal transplantation 2002Ó-University of Chicago Grand Rounds September 3rd, 2002

 

ÒTransplant 2003Ó Rheumatology section research meeting, December 9th, 2003

 

ÒPregnancy and Transplant: The AST Consensus Executive SummaryÓ Ob-Gyn Grand Rounds, March 11th, 2005

 

ÒPost-Transplant Bone Disease: Diagnosis and TreatmentÓ Transplant  Surgery Lecture Series April 29th, 2005

ÒMedical Complications of Renal TransplantationÓ Grand Rounds at Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL January 19th, 2001

 

ÒRenal TransplantationÓ Nephrology Core Curriculum Lecture for Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Internal Medicine Residency, Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston IL April 4th , 2001

 

ÒMedical Complications of Renal TransplantationÓ Pfizer Lab Educational Program for Medical Residents, Chicago, IL 3/27/01ÒMedical Complications of Renal TransplantationÓ Pfizer Lab Educational Program for Medical Residents, Oak Brook, IL April 24th, 2001

 

ÒGeneral health management and long-term care of the renal transplant recipientÓ Given at a conference entitled: The role of the primary care physician in the care of the patient with renal disease, arranged by Evanston Northwestern  Nephrology Section, Old Orchard Il, May 7th, 2002

 

ÒPushing the envelope: an update in renal transplantation 2002Ó Grand Rounds at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare,  Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston IL, May 10th, 2002

 

ÒEverything you always wanted to know about kidney transplantation in one hour or less.Ó May 5, 2004, Evanston Illinois (Evanston Residency Lectures)

 

ÒEverything you always wanted to know about kidney transplantation in one hour or less.Ó May 28, 2004, Mercy Hospital Medical Grand Rounds, Chicago, IL

 

ÒBK nephropathy: What do we know? What can we do?Ó December  16th, 2004, renal conference: University of Illinois at Chicago section of nephrology

 

ÒGender-specific concerns of the female transplant patientÓ Impact of immunosuppression on long-term kidney transplant outcomes meeting, New York, New York June 29th 2001

 

ÒGender-specific concerns of the female transplant patientÓ Impact of immunosuppression on long-term kidney transplant outcomes meeting, New Orleans, LA  November 16th, 2001

 

ÒGender-specific concerns of the female transplant patientÓ Impact of immunosuppression on long-term kidney transplant outcomes meeting, Del Mar, CA February 8th, 2002

 

Visiting speaker at University of Alabama at Birmingham, ÒMedical complications of renal transplantationÓ and ÒGender-specific issues of the female transplant patientÓ presented. March 12, 2002

 

Mentoring and networking effectively- ASN post-graduate education course-WIN Professional Development Seminar, Philadelphia, October 31st 2002

 

ÒThe usual and the unusual: infections that the transplant nephrologist seesÓ NKF Clinical Meetings Transplant course. April 2, 2003, Dallas Texas

 

ÒTherapeutic strategies: what works when?Ó (a session on post-transplant bone disease). NKF Clinical Meetings, April 3, 2003, Dallas Texas

 

ÒGender issues in transplantationÓ Clinical management to improve long-term outcome after transplantation meeting, Chicago, IL July 26th, 2002

 

ÒRecurrence of kidney diseases post transplantÓ Advances in Transplantation, a meeting sponsored by Contemporary Forums. Chicago, IL September 9th, 2003

 

ÒSpecial Issues in TransplantationÓ Transplantation in the new millennium meeting Rancho Mirage, California Sept 12, 2003. 

 

ÒViruses in and out of the Kidney-problems in chronic transplant careÓ NKF Clinical Meetings Transplant Course. April 28, 2004, Chicago, IL

 

ÒChoosing an appropriate transplant recipient: should patients with ischemic heart disease, HIV or chronic hepatitis be transplanted?Ó July 16, 2004, SUNY Downstate Medical Center CME program entitled: ÒIssues in outpatient kidney patient care: management of the wait-listed dialysis patient and the long term transplant recipientÓ, New York, New York

 

ÒCare of the Female Transplant RecipientÓ July 24th, 2004: ÒInvestigator Meeting: Reflections on the Scientific Advancements of Transplantation in the Tacrolimus Era.Ó Chicago Illinois July 23-24, 2004

 

ÒBK nephropathy: What do we know? What can we do?Ó October 3rd, 2004, 2nd annual conference: New Advances in Solid Organ Transplantation, Scripps, La Jolla California

 

ÒNew Guidelines for Pregnancy in Renal Allograft RecipientsÓ NKF clinical meetings, May 7, 2005 Washington DC

 

ÒBK nephropathy: What do we know? What can we do?Ó October 17th, 2005 University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

ÒPost-Transplant Bone Disease: Diagnosis and TreatmentÓ October 17th, 2005 University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

ÒPost-Transplant Bone Disease: Diagnosis and TreatmentÓ ASN PGE Course, Philadelphia PA, November 8th, 2005

 

ÒWomenÕs Issues in TransplantationÓ An update on Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation CME course at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, November 16th, 2005

 

 

 ÒPregnancy and Transplant: The AST Consensus Executive SummaryÓ 14th World Congress of the International Society of Hypertension in Pregnancy (ISSHP), Vienna, Austria Nov 14-17, 2004

 

 ÒPost-Transplant Bone Disease: Diagnosis and TreatmentÓ Ninth Annual AST Winter Symposium, Banff Alberta Canada March 16-20, 2005