Thank you for your interest in the University of Maryland Nephrology Fellowship Training Program. We have trained outstanding clinical and academic nephrologists for over 40 years. We provide a broad range of clinical experiences and research opportunities in Nephrology. Our goal is to best prepare graduating fellows for a successful career as a private practitioner or an academic nephrologist.

Our fellowship training program is approved by the ACGME (Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education). We typically accept 4 fellows per year and are approved for a total of 8 fellows. 

All fellows will be assigned a mentor during their first year. This mentor will provide guidance and support to assist each trainee in achieving their training goals and benchmarks. The mentorship will assist the fellow in identifying a potential research project and will work together to monitor progress throughout their clinical and research training.

Distinctions of Our Program

We provide outstanding and comprehensive training in all aspects of clinical nephrology. However, the following features particularly distinguish our program from others.

Maryland PKD Research Core Center

The University of Maryland is home to one of three NIDDK-funded PKD research and Translation Core Centers in the world. Maryland’s PKD core center provides innovative research resources to a national and international community of investigators.

Maryland Poison Center

The University of Maryland is home to the Maryland Poison Center, one of 53 poison centers across the United States, with medical direction from one of only several nephrologist-medical toxicologists in the world. The center receives more than 60,000 calls per year, from the routine to life-threatening.

Critical Care Nephrology

The University of Maryland Medical Center has extensive critical care services and Nephrology fellows are routinely involved in the management and care of the critically ill. Through our consult services, the nephrology fellows manage patients in the MICU, SICU, Cardiac Surgery ICU, Neuro Critical Care ICU, CCU and the world-famous Shock Trauma Center ICUs where they co-manage trauma-critical care patients along with the trauma teams. Nephrology services in these units span around extensive extracorporeal therapies which include CVVH, CVVHD, CVVHDF, and exposure to all aspects of ICU nephrology, fluid-electrolyte balance, and hemodialysis in critically ill patients. They are also exposed to patients on ECMO with CRRT. Our aim is to train fellows to be well rounded in the management of the critically ill upon completion of their fellowship.

Organ Transplant Program

The University of Maryland Organ Transplant Program is one of the largest programs in the U.S., performing approximately 200 kidney transplants every year, along with dozens of liver, pancreas, heart, and lung transplants. Maryland is one of the leading programs in the transplantation space, making international news for the first (and only) heart xenotransplantations, and has performed innovations such as organs delivered by drone. The University of Maryland Medical Center transplant team has performed more than 6,000 kidney transplants since 1988. The UMMC Transplant Center is also part of the APOL1 Long-term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes (APOLLO) Network, a national study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

General Nephrology

General Nephrology is an integral part of any fellowship program, and we do not lag behind. Consult services cover medical floors, post-surgical, labor and delivery. Fellows routinely manage patients with AKI, CKD and various kinds of glomerulonephritis. Being a tertiary level care referral institution, our fellows are exposed to a vast and diverse mix of both common and complex/rare cases and pathology that bring a unique experience to the nephrologist-in-training.

Research

The University of Maryland School of Medicine provides an exceptional environment for research training. We offer basic research in the cellular and molecular mechanisms of tubular function, hypertension, genetic renal diseases (particularly polycystic kidney disease), and transplant immunology. We have NIH foundation and industry grants within the Division. Our faculty are heavily involved with clinical and epidemiologic research addressing chronic kidney disease, genetic epidemiology of renal disease, hypertension, transplantation, and glomerular diseases. For more information on specific research interests of the Division, please see individual faculty pages where research programs and publications are discussed.

Contact Information

Cintia Crumedy
Fellowship Coordinator
University of Maryland Division of Nephrology
22 South Greene Street, N3W143
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tel: (410) 328-5720
Fax: (410) 328-5685
Email: ccrumedy@som.umaryland.edu

Neil K. Agarwal, MD
Fellowship Program Director
University of Maryland Division of Nephrology
22 South Greene Street, N3W143
Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: nagarwal@som.umaryland.edu