Research Summary:

• Transitional medicine: When and how transition should occur from a pediatric centered care to adult centered care. Development and validation of tools to determine successful tool to help in determining the appropriate time for transition.

• Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic kidney disease, End stage kidney disease and post-transplant pediatric patients. Non vascular etiology of cardiac dysfunction. Do the current diagnostic tools adequately predict short term cardiovascular dysfunction and/or long term cardiovascular outcome.

• Is elevated pulmonary pressure in euvolemic dialysis patients a predictor of delayed graft function post-transplant?

Link to PubMed Citations

Selected Publications:

Memon I, Klein CL. Impact of hepatorenal syndrome and liver transplantation. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2011 Jun;16(3):301-5.

Hruska KA, Choi ET, Memon I, Davis TK, Mathew S. Cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease (CKD): the CKD-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD). Pediatr Nephrol. 2010 Apr;25(4):769-78. Epub 2009 Nov 7. Review.

Hruska KA, Mathew S, Lund RJ, Memon I, Saab G. The pathogenesis of vascular calcification in the chronic kidney disease mineral bone disorder: the links between bone and the vasculature. Semin Nephrol. 2009 Mar;29(2):156-65. Review.

Memon I, Brennan DC. Pathogenesis and management of Post-transplant anemia; US renal disease, Touch briefings 2007.