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CURRICULUM VITAE
University of Alabama at BirminghamSchool of Medicine Faculty
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Name: Vineeta Kumar, M.D. F.A.S.T.Citizenship: United StatesForeign Language(s): Hindi, Gujarati, TeluguHome Address: 965 Viridian Way
Birmingham, Alabama 35226Phone: 205-978-1871
RANK/TITLE:
Title: Robert C. Bourge and Cutessa D. Bourge Endowed Professorship in Transplant Nephrology
Professor of Medicine with Tenure
Director, Transplant Nephrology Fellowship ProgramClinical Director, Renal Module, UAB School of MedicineLead Nephrologist, UAB HLA/ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplant ProgramLead Nephrologist, UAB Living Kidney Donor ProgramLead Facilitator and Member, UAB Schwartz Center Rounds Advanced Communication Training (ACT) Scholar
Department: Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Business Address: Division of Nephrology 1900 University Boulevard, THT 643
Birmingham, AL 35294-0006
Mailing Address 1720 Second Avenue South, THT 643 Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0006
Telephone: (205) 934-9045Fax: (205) 934-7742Email: [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT SHIPS:
05/2009 - 2014 State of Alabama Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force, Appointed by Lieutenant Governor Jim Folsom, Jr., Pursuant to Act No. 2009-467
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EDUCATION: 09/1988 – 07/1994 Medical School, M. P. Shah Medical College, Jamnagar,
India, Degree: M.B.B.S. (M.D. equivalent)LICENSURE: 06/2006 - Present Alabama State Medical License, #00027440 06/27/2001 - Present DEA license, original date of issue 06/2004 - 2012 Washington State Medical License, #MD00043858 03/2001 – 12/2009 Texas Medical License, #L1916 04/24/2002 Original date of issue of state DPS License 10/1996 - 1998 Institutional Permit for Clinical Research, Texas State Board
of Medical Examiners07/1994 Licensed to practice Medicine in India
BOARD CERTIFICATION:04/2017 ABIM Nephrology Recertification
10/2010 ABIM Internal Medicine Recertification 12/2006 Board Certified, Nephrology, #196781 10/2000 Board Certified, Internal Medicine, #196781 10/1996 Radiation Safety Training 05/1996 ECFMG Certification POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING: 07/2006 – 06/2007 Clinical Fellow, Transplant Nephrology Fellowship, University
of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2005 – 06/2006 Research Fellow, North West Kidney Center Basic Science Research Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle
07/2004 – 06/2006 Clinical Fellow, Nephrology Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle
07/2000– 06/2001 Chief Medial Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), San Antonio, Texas (additional/4th year, appointed as 1 of three chief for ~ 100 residents/year)
07/1997 – 06/2000 Internal Medicine Residency, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, Texas 07/1996 – 05/1997 Research Fellow, Diabetes Research, Department of
Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Mentor: Dr. Ralph A. De Fronzo, Professor of Medicine, Chief Diabetes Division
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (In reverse chronological order):
2/2019 – Present Inaugural Holder of the Robert C. Bourge and Cutessa D. Bourge Endowed Professorship in Transplant Nephrology
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10/01/2017 – Present Professor of Medicine with Tenure
05/2014 – 6/2019 Clinical Director, Renal Module, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2013 – 04/2014 Associate Director, Renal Module, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2012- 9/30/2017 Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Tenure TrackDivision of Nephrology/Transplant Nephrology,University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2012- Dec 2018 Fellowship Director, UAB Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
Jan 2019- Present Associate Director, UAB Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program
07/2011- Present Member, UAB General Nephrology Fellowship Committee, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2010 – 06/2013 Assistant Director, Renal Module, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2009- 6/2011 Co-Director, UAB Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2008 – 01/2015 Selected and Appointed Core Clinical Faculty for the UAB Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program (one of ten faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
10/05/2007 – 07/2012 Assistant Professor, Department of MedicineDivision of Nephrology/Transplant NephrologyUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2001 – 06/2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, Texas
07/2000 – 06/2001 Chief Resident/Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine UTHSCSA, San Antonio, Texas
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS:
10/2007 - Present University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL
10/2001 – 06/2004 University Hospital San Antonio, Texas
07/2001 – 06/2004 Audie L Murphy Veterans Administration Hospital, SanAntonio, Texas
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AWARDS/HONORS:AT UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN BIRMINGHAM (AS FACULTY)
9/2020 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence
10/2019 2019 Recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for the University of Alabama School of Medicine Faculty
10/2019 Nominated for Argus Award for “Best Educator in Renal” and Best MS1 Module and Module Director” by the UAB Medical school class of 2022
5/2019 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in the Department of Medicine at UAB.
5/2019 Approved by the AST Board of Directors for the designation of F.A.S.T., Fellow of American Society of Transplantation
4/2019 Appointed Co-Chair, AST Cutting Edge in Transplantation Annual meeting (CEOT) 2020
2/2019 Inaugural Holder of The Robert C. Bourge and Cutessa D. Bourge Endowed Professorship in Transplant Nephrology
2/2019 Appointed Member of the AST Patient Education Committee
2012- 20 Castle Connolly Peer Nominated & Physician Researched- Top Doctors in Medicine- Top Doctors in Nephrology- Exceptional Women in Medicine- Exceptional Women in Nephrology
12/2018 Recognized as Cipher Health “Exceptional Team Member” by UAB Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Clinic Staff
10/2018 Chair, Education Sub-Committee, AST (American Society of Transplantation) Living Donor Community of Practice (LDCOP)
9/2018 Accepted via a system wide selection process to the UAB Healthcare Leadership Academy, deferred acceptance
9/2018 Argus Award for “Best Educator in Renal” voted by the UAB Medical school class of 2022
9/2018 Argus Award for “Best MS1 Module and Module Director” voted by the UAB Medical school class of 2022 in the integrated UAB School of Medicine MS1-2 course.
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6/2018 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching to a Senior Faculty at UAB
06/2018 B-Metro “Top Doctors in Medicine” List
5/2018 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in the Department of Medicine at UAB.
05/2018 Top Doctors 2018, Castle Connolly Medical
04/2018 Elected Co-Chair AST (American Society of Transplantation) Living Donor Community of Practice in a membership wide open election
02/2018 Graduated from the First UAB Vital Talk Faculty Development Course in Advanced Communication Training as a designated ACT Scholar
09/2017 Argus Award for “Best Educator in Renal”, voted on by the UAB Medical school class of 2021 and given to one faculty member teaching in the integrated Renal Module MS1-2 course (~ 50 faculty).
09/2017 Argus Award Nominee for Best MSI Organ Module/Module Directors, voted on by the UAB Medical school class of 2021
08/2017 Brewer-Heslin Endowed Award for Professionalism in Medicine, an award given annually to one out of 1300 fulltime UAB faculty physicians who demonstrates extraordinary commitment to providing skilled and compassionate medical care. http://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/1625-kumar-receives-2017-brewer-heslin-endowed-award-for-professionalism-in-medicine
06/2017 Selected for the B-Metro “Top Women in Medicine” List
05/2017 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in the Department of Medicine at UAB. Voted by faculty and given to only 10 faculty members in the Department of Internal Medicine at UAB
03/2017 Nominated for 2017 Outstanding Woman Award, on behalf of the UAB Commission on the Status on Women
2015-2017 Nominated for 2015-2016, 2016-2017, UAB Presidential Award for Excellence in Service
10/2016 Argus Award for Best MS1 Renal Module/Module Director voted on by the UAB Medical school class of 2020 in the integrated Renal Module MS1-2 course.
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10/2016 Argus Award Nominee for Best Educator in Renal, voted on by the UAB Medical school class of 2020 and given to one faculty member teaching in the integrated Renal Module MS1-2 course (~ 50 faculty)
09/2016 Awarded for “Excellence in Action” in the UAB Core Values Campaign in a Hospital wide employee nomination process to 1 of 5 physicians at UAB
07/2016, 2017 Featured as one of three MS1 favorite faculty members in the UAB SOM newsletter by the medical students: http://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/component/k2/item/1175-three-faculty-five-questions-endless-advice
05/2016 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in the Department of Medicine at UAB. Voted by faculty and given to only 10 faculty members in the Department of Internal Medicine at UAB.
05/2016 Department of Medicine Faculty Honors “Unsung Hero” Award, given to one faculty in the UAB Division of Nephrology
2014-2015 Chair, Education Committee, American Society of Transplantation (AST)
10/2015 Argus Award for “Best Educator in Renal”, voted on by the UAB Medical school class of 2019 and given to one faculty member teaching in the integrated Renal Module MS1-2 course (~ 50 faculty)
10/2015 Argus Award Nominee for Best MSI Module and Best MSI Module Director, voted on by the UAB Medical school class of 2019
05/2015 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in the Department of Medicine at UAB. Voted by faculty and given to only 10 faculty members in the Department of Internal Medicine at UAB.
10/2014 Argus Award for Best MS1 Module Director, Renal Module, voted on by the UAB medical school class of 2018
10/2014 Argus Award Nominee for Best MS1 Module and Best MS1 Lecturer in Renal Module
10/2014 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in the Department of Medicine at UAB. Voted by faculty and given to only 10 faculty members in the Department of Internal Medicine at UAB.
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2013-2014 Co-Chair, Education Committee, American Society of Transplantation (AST)
05/2013 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in the Department of Medicine at UAB. Voted by faculty and given to only 10 faculty members in the Department of Internal Medicine at UAB.
05/2012 Cobb and Rutsky Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in the Department of Medicine at UAB. Voted by faculty and given to only 10 faculty members in the Department of Internal Medicine at UAB.
2012-2019 Top Doctors, US News and World Report
2011- 2019 America’s Top Physician
05/2011 Outstanding Teacher, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, voted by the Internal Medicine Residents at UAB and given to one faculty in the Division of Nephrology
2011-19 Marquis Who’s who in America
AWARDS/HONORUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER IN SAN ANTONIO (FACULTY)
2004, 2005 Outstanding Faculty Teacher of the Year Award from UTHSCSA Medical School Class of 2004, 2005, at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio given to 3 faculty in the Department of Medicine.
2002, 2003, 2004 The Most Outstanding Clinical Teacher of The Year in the Department of Medicine, given to 1 faculty each year, voted by the Department of Internal Medicine Residents, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
2002, 2003, 2004 Outstanding Teacher of the Year in the Division of General Medicine voted by the residents in the Internal Medicine Residency training program (separate poll from above) and given to 3 faculty members in the Division of General Medicine each year, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
AWARDS/HONORSUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER IN SAN ANTONIO (INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY)
07/1999 - 06/2000 Shirley P. Levine Award for Most Compassionate Resident of the Year, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
07/1998 - 06/1999 Junior Resident of the Year, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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07/1998 - 06/1999 Pharmacia & Upjohn Achievement Award for Excellence in Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio given to one Junior resident per year
07/1997 - 06/1998 Geriatrics Intern of the year, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
07/1997 - 06/1998 Hartford Center for Geriatric Education Award for Excellence in Clinical Geriatrics given to one intern each year
1998, 1999, 2000 Recognition for Excellence in Ambulatory Care Medicine in Internal Medicine Residency, given to 3 residents in the internal medicine residency program of ~ 100 residents at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
AWARDS/HONORS MP SHAH MEDICAL COLLEGE, JAMANAGAR, GUJARAT, INDIA (MEDICAL SCHOOL):
09/1988 - 05/1993 Gold Medal for graduating at the top of the medical school class with overall highest score covering the entire duration of the course (equivalent to Valedictorian in the U.S. system)
09/1988 - 05/1990 Gold Medal for highest score in Anatomy. This score, 168/200, was an all time high in the 40-year old Medical College, and was also the highest for the year among all of the five medical colleges in the State of Gujarat, India, with a total of about 1000 students
1993 Certificate of Merit for excellence from Indian Academy of Pediatrics given to five medical students in the State of Gujarat, India every year (five medical schools, 1000 graduates)
09/1988 - 05/1993 Top 1 to 3 scores and Top 1-3 ranks of the medical school class in each term (189 students)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY/MEMBERSHIPS:3/2020 Appointed OPTN/UNOS Region 3 representative to the living
donor committee for a 3 year term starting July 2020-June 2023
4/2020 Appointed CEOT Incoming Co-Chair for 2022 and CEOT Chair for 2023
4/2020 Elected Incoming Chair AST LDCOP for a 2 year term starting July 2020 – June 2022
7/2016- 6/2018 Elected Member to the Executive Council of AST LDCOP, American Society of Transplantation Living donor community of practice
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07/2015 - 06/2016 Outgoing Chair, Education Committee, American Society of Transplantation (AST)
10/2014 - Present Invited Member, AST Core Curriculum in Transplantation10/2014 - Present Invited Member, AST Living Donor Community of Practice
Website Development Committee07/2014 - Present Appointed Member AST/American Board of Internal Medicine
(ABIM)/Liaison Committee on Certification and Re-certification (LCCR)
07/2012 - 06/2014 Invited Member ABIM/ASN/AST Sponsored Transplant Nephrology Practice Improvement Module (PIM) for ABIM recertification
07/2014 - 06/2015 Chair, AST Education Committee (Launched AST online Journal clubs, designed and administered educational survey)
07/2013- 06/2014 Co-Chair, AST Education Committee (Launched AST Live Webinar series)
10/2011- Present Member, AST Education Committee01/2011 - Present Member, National Kidney Foundation, Nephrology and
Transplant Southern Chapter Patient Education Committee Task Force, General Education Committee, Annual Meeting Planning Committee
12/2009 - Present Member, International Society of Nephrology03/2007 - Present Member, American Society of Transplant (AST)06/2004 - Present Member, American Society of Nephrology (ASN)10/2003 Work shop peer review committee member, Southern Region,
SGIM 2004 2001 - 2005 Member, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)03/2001 Member, Clinical Vignette Review Committee, SSGIM2000 - 2005 Member, Southern (SSGIM)1999 - 2004 Member, ACP-ASIM
UNIVERSITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES:UAB:07/10/2018 Clinical Facilitator, Kidney Crosstalk Workshop for KURE
(R25-summer research)4/27/2018 Co-hosted Schwartz Rounds event for national Patient
experience week at UAB with the office of patient experience4/09/2018 Moderated Schwartz Rounds at UAB Tinsley Harrison Internal
Medicine Residency Program to Internal medicine residents at the noon conference hour
03/08/2018 Invited Speaker, World Kidney Day: Engaging Conversations on Women’s Kidney Health: Clinical Practice, Education, and Research – Kidney transplantation and pregnancy
03/07/2018 Judge, 34th Annual DOM Trainee Research Symposium (TRS), UAB
10/2017 Selected to be part of the Advanced Communication Training (ACT) Scholar Program
08/2017- 07/2018 Selected to be part of the first class of the UAB Department of Medicine (DOM) Leadership Training Group as part of the DOM new leadership development initiative
07/2017 Judge, Poster Practice for SIBS and Paradigm students, UAB
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05/2017 Clinical Facilitator, Kidney Crosstalk Workshop for KURE (R25-summer research)
05/2017 Clinical Facilitator, Kidney Crosstalk Workshop for T32 training application
2015- Present Active member and facilitator for the Office of Inter-professional Simulation for Innovative Clinical Practice (OIPS), UAB
07/2013 - Present Clinical Director, Renal Module, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
07/2010 - 06/2013 Assistant Director, Renal Module, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
04/2011 - Present Director, Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program2009 – 01/2015 Core Clinical Faculty, UAB School of Medicine Internal
Medicine Residency Program- Mentoring 6-8 interns/residents per year- Involved in morning report at UAB and Cooper
Green for interns and residents- Participate and present at Resident Noon
Conference- Renal Board Review at Monthly Block Rotation
05/2009 - Present Lead Physician, Schwartz Rounds, 2009-2010 – UABMultidisciplinary Rounds
2008 – 03/2011 Co-Director, Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program2009 - Present Co-Director, HLA incompatible Kidney Transplant Program2009 - Present Co-Director, ABO Incompatibility (ABOI) Kidney Transplant
Program2010 - Present Co-Director, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Medicine
Renal Module2010 – Present Judge, Department of Medicine Trainee Research
Symposium2011 - Present Co-director, UAB, School of Medicine - Renal Module
Instructors2010, 2011 Faculty Mentor, UAB, School of Medicine Summer Health
Enrichment Program (SHEP)2011 - Present Faculty Mentor, UAB, School of Medicine, Dr. Huma Fatima01/2008 - Present Member, Nephrology Fellowship Committee2009 - Present Member, Intern Selection Committee12/2010 Member, Narrative Medicine Discussion Group01/08 - Present Interviewer, Nephrology Fellowship Program 01/2008 - Present Interviewer, Internal Medicine Residency Selection
Committee10/2007 – 09/2008 Invited Member, Education Panel Alabama Kidney
Foundation
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (in Seattle):03/2006, 11/2005 Member, Graduate Medical Education Committee:
Programmatic Internal Review for Renal Pathology, University of Washington, and Seattle
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO:12/2003 – 02/2004 President Nominating Committee, Southern Region SGIM
2004. 12/10/2003 Division of General Medicine Journal Club – LIFE study
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07/2002 - 06/2004 Member, Book Club for Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, Medical Students and Faculty
07/2000 – 06/2004 Interviewer, Internal Medicine Residency Applicants, Department of Medicine, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX
07/2000 – 06/2004 Intern Selection Committee, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX07/2000 - 06/2004 Internal Medicine Residency Remediation Committee (RRC)
MEDICAL SCHOOL:1990 - 1992 Active Volunteer, Integrated Child Development Services
Scheme. Government of India project, concerned with reduction of infant mortality and morbidity rate with improvement of health and nutritional standards
1988 - 1993 Member, Jamnagar Medical Association Committee
PRESS/NEWS: 9/2020 National Minority Donor Month, Invited Speaker, Physician
Panel for Patient and Community Education hosted by Legacy of Hope, Alabama - Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh53098FbPA<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DKh53098FbPA&d=DwMGaQ&c=o3PTkfaYAd6-No7SurnLt5qpge1aKYwPQyBFS7c8AA0&r=lPE8bxFTMDeJCFXZ9MsHWw&m=KXpuBbjWMU5uhHKnDnm76-dQrJFe5dLF9vs0lQsaSXM&s=XYSn4jtFfIzi4asDao78KK8Mmud5g0zPpDcyeKQaHgI&e=> part 2
9/2020 National Minority Donor Month, Invited Speaker, Physician Panel for Patient and Community Education hosted by Legacy of Hope, Alabama - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgP4Y8Qzlkg<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DGgP4Y8Qzlkg&d=DwMGaQ&c=o3PTkfaYAd6-No7SurnLt5qpge1aKYwPQyBFS7c8AA0&r=lPE8bxFTMDeJCFXZ9MsHWw&m=KXpuBbjWMU5uhHKnDnm76-dQrJFe5dLF9vs0lQsaSXM&s=23lFM0sfUojSYZpSpF7gkzKkdT03EsOedpdkL0LlXxI&e=> part 1
8/2020 American Society of Transplantation, AST COVID-19 Community Video Discussion, Invited Speaker on the Multidisciplinary Physician Panel https://drive.google.com/file/d/1raYyrY1DdxKnIQqrbD-QXN1sXUpoZxLW/view
7/2020 Author, Vital Talk Virtual Teaching Playbook: Dealing with Virtual Fatigue https://www.vitaltalk.org/guides/covid-19-communication-skills/
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6/2020 Co-author representing LDCOP AST COVI FAQ, “Recommendations and Guidance for Organ Donor Testing” https://www.myast.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/Donor%20Testing%20Document_Updated_2020_0708.pdf
6/2020 Contributor, AST FAQ Document “Medication Access and Drug Shortage Concerns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Frequently Asked Questions” https://www.myast.org/sites/default/files/AST%20TxPharm%20COP_ACCP%20IMTR%20PRN%20Medication%20Access%20Workgroup-%20FAQs%20Document%20-%20Without%20Drug%20Shortage%20Information%20Tables%20200618.pdf
5/2020 Featured in the Educator Reporter “Kindness and kidneys: Kumar's ‘invitation to relationship’ inspires students facing one of Alabama's great killers” https://www.uab.edu/reporter/people/awards-honors/item/9119-kindness-and-kidneys-kumar-s-invitation-to-relationship-inspires-students-facing-one-of-alabama-s-great-killers#:~:text=D.%2C%20professor%20in%20the%20Division%20of%20Nephrology%2C%20is,2019%20UAB%20President%E2%80%99s%20Award%20for%20Excellence%20in%20Teaching
4/2020 Author, Lead Architect of AST Community Education Video: Long term outcomes of Living Kidney Donation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIabcrqiNC0&t=11s
10/2019 Featured in UAB Video History of “UAB Kidney Transplantation” https://youtu.be/-1RY3ECY7t4
7/2019 UAB Faculty Presidents award for excellence in teaching - https://www.uab.edu/reporter/people/awards-honors/item/8760-12-honored-for-excellence-in-teaching
5/2019 Invited Faculty Member (one of eight) to the annual spring “Dine with the Docs” hosted by the Medical Alumni Association.https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/2029-dine-
with-the-docsconnects-students-with-faculty-mentors
4/2019 Featured in the University Hospital Notes for Quotes Video.https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/1998-dean-s-excellence-award-winner-profile-vineeta-kumar
2/2019 Featured in the UAB School of Medicine “Best Medicine Show” Video. https://www.facebook.com/bestmedicineshow/photos/pb.1223
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10/2018 Featured in the UAB Magazine Fall 2018 “Helping the Healers” Issue as a physician helping other care givers deal with burn out. https://www.uab.edu/medicine/magazine/227-helping-the-healers
9/2018 Video for Dean’s Excellence Award in Teaching. https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/1998-dean-s-excellence-award-winner-profile-vineeta-kumar
5/2018 UAB Magazine CTI write up on the UAB incompatible kidney transplant and UAB paired kidney donation and living donation program – “Giving Second Chances” - https://www.uab.edu/medicine/magazine/215-the-gift-of-a-second-chance
04/27/2018 Schwartz Center Rounds for The Human Connection: Lyric’s Song, UAB
01/2018 Featured in the UAB CTI 50th Anniversary Campaign Video Infomercial. https://www.oneuabmedicine.org/-/sneak-peek-cti-anniversary-commercial?utm_source=oneenews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oneenews1-3-18
1/2018 UAB magazine “Science and Generosity saves lives” http://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/features/lifeline?utm_source=SOM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
12/20/2017 Featured in the UAB CTI 50th Anniversary Campaign Video as the Physician Championhttps://www.uabmedicine.org/-/what-sets-uab-apart-in-transplantation-a-transplant-physician-explains
10/2017 SPK transplant recipient https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B30ZUzpXwU
08/2017 Brewer-Heslin Endowed Award for Professionalism in Medicine, an award given annually to one out of 1300 fulltime UAB faculty physicians who demonstrates extraordinary commitment to providing skilled and compassionate medical care. http://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/1625-kumar-receives-2017-brewer-heslin-endowed-award-for-professionalism-in-medicine
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07/2016, 2017 Featured as one of three MS1 favorite faculty members in the UAB SOM newsletter by the medical students: http://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/component/k2/item/1175-three-faculty-five-questions-endless-advice 2017: http://www.uab.edu/medicine/nephrology/news-events
06/2017 B-Metro “Top Women in Medicine” List
2017, 2016 Featured in Birmingham Metro, Top Doctors of 2016, 2017
11/2015 Featured in the National Schwartz Center Rounds for Compassionate Care Video.“20 Years: Champions of Compassionate Care” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB60QCyzD-k
08/2015 Give and Take: UAB Kidney ChainArticle: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/medicine-magazine/item/796-uab-celebrates-achievements-in-kidney-transplantation
2015 Birmingham Top Doctors
2/14/2014 UAB Performs the Largest Kidney Transplant Chain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W_sz7d-LTk
2014 Snow Does Not Stop the Largest Kidney ChainVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W_sz7d-LTk#t=12
12/2013 UAB launches paired exchange and incompatible kidney transplant programArticle & Video: http://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/312-uab-launches-paired-exchange-and-incompatible-kidney-transplant-program
10/2013 Living-Donor Volume Up With Kidney Paired Donors, Desensitization Protocols for ‘Incompatibles’. Vineeta Kumar, MD and Jayme Locke, MD UAB Medicine Nephrology InsightVol. 4 No. 155
2013/2014 UAB PHYSICIAN HQ MD Learning Channel Transplant Services. Teaching Videos on:1. Three-way Kidney Swap2. Paired Donation3. Dialysis and Transplant4. Incompatible ProgramCan be viewed at http://learnmd.uabmedicine.org/channels/transplant-serviceshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IxzIu8Hz5o
05/2009 Local News Telecast: Fewer antibodies, better transplants: UAB program cleans up immune system
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04/28/2009 The Birmingham News: “Fewer antibodies, better transplants: UAB program cleans up immune system. Section pages 1-2B”
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBESHIPS:Ad Hoc Reviewer New England Journal of MedicineReviewer American Journal of Transplantation
Journal of American Society of NephrologyClinical Journal of American Society of NephrologyTransplantationClinical NephrologyClinical TransplantationAnnals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians on Line
2002- Present McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE)2010, 2011 Kidney International07/2002 - 06/2004 Annals of Internal Medicine
07/2000 – 06/2004 Up-to-date SGIM Peer Chapter Review
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS: 1. Pathogenesis and treatment of antibody mediated
rejection2. Incompatible Kidney Transplants – HLA, ABO, Kidney3. Paired Donation Programs4. Living donor evaluations5. Recurrent glomerular diseases
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:UAB NEPHROLOGY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM:10/2011 - Present Created Curriculum Binder for Renal transplant evaluation
rotation for Nephrology Fellows, UAB06/2010 – Present Created one page teaching tools for work up of common living
donor evaluation related conditions – e.g. Hematuria, Stones06/2009 - Present Contributed to the Nephrology Fellowship Survival Guide,
UAB06/2008 - Present Contributed to the fellowship manual for Nephrology
fellowship, UAB10/2008 - Present UAB Nephrology Wed am Morning report
UAB Nephrology Fellow Noon ConferenceUAB Nephrology New Fellow OrientationUAB Nephrology Fellow Board Review Session, TransplantUAB Nephrology Tues Noon Biopsy Conference, Transplant
10/2007 - Present Attending, Inpatient Transplant Nephrology Ward Service10/2007 - Present Attending, Inpatient Transplant Nephrology Consult Service10/2007 - Present Attending, Renal Biopsy Service10/2007 - Present Attending, Renal and Pancreas Transplant Clinic10/2007 - Present Attending, Renal and Pancreas Transplant Evaluation Clinic
ACADEMIC MENTOR TO GENERAL and TRANSPLANT NEPHROLOGY FELLOWS:07/2017- 6/2018 Venkat R. Mundra, M.D., Current Transplant Nephrology
fellow, UAB, joined Nephrology Associates, Nashville and serving as transplant nephrologist at the St. Thomas West hospital
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07/2016- 06/2017 Asha Patel, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow, UAB, now Junior faculty at UAB, Birmingham, Alabama
07/2016- 06/2017 Osama Elmhishi, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow, UAB, now in Private Practice in Kansas City
07/2015 – 06/2016 Silvi Shah, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow at UAB, Now junior faculty in Nephrology at Univ. Cincinnati
07/2015- 06/2016 Zohreh Soltani, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow at UAB, Now junior faculty at LSU, Tulane
07/2014- 06/2015 Gaurav Agarwal, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow at UAB. Now junior faculty at UAB
07/2013- 06/2014 Song Ching Ong, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow at UAB. Now junior faculty at UAB
07/2013- 6/2014 Ahmed Kamal, International Fellow from Egypt, Now faculty in Egypt
07/2012- 06/2014 Dwight Matthew, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow at UAB.Now a practicing physician in Florence, Alabama at Shoals Kidney and Hypertension
07/2011 - 2015 Timothy A. Williams, M.D., second year Medicine resident, APOL 1 gene expression and allograft survival in African Americans – manuscript published
07/2011 – 2015 Timothy A. Williams, M.D., second year Medicine resident Retrospective analysis of antibody mediated rejection and predictors of allograft survival at UAB, manuscript published. Trained as a nephrology fellow at UAB and now in Private Practice in Birmingham, Alabama
07/2011 - 2014 Fizza Naqvi, M.D., second year Nephrology fellow, mentoring her in research project, denovo and recurrent membranous in the transplant allografts, a single center experience, abstract submitted to ATC Dec 2011. Now Junior Faculty at John Hopkins University, Baltimore
07/2011 - 2014 Yaser Al Solaiman, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow at UAB, recurrent FSGS and plasma exchange, predictors of allograft survival in treated patients with FSGS, abstract submitted to ATC Dec 2011. Now junior faculty at University of Cincinnati
07/2011 – 2014 Jennifer Hughes Shuemaker, M.D., first year Nephrology fellow, mentoring her on the research project recurrent diabetes in transplant allograft, trained as a nephrology fellow, now in Private Practice in Kentucky
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07/2010 - 06/2011 Shikha Mehta, M.D., Transplant Nephrology fellow, mentored her on the research project: Incidence and risk factors for infection in patients who have received kidney transplant and another solid organ transplant. Now junior faculty at UAB. Abstract publication and poster presentation
07/2010 - 06/2011 Paulina Mochon, M.D., second year Nephrology fellow, QI project – safety and efficacy of IVIG in the treatment of Antibody Mediated rejection, implemented 10/2010. Now Physician in Private Practice at Princeton Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama
07/2009 -06/2010 Gaurav Jain, M.D., second year Nephrology fellow, mentored him on the research project, recurrent diabetes in transplant allograft. Now junior faculty at UAB, oral presentation and abstract publication.
ACADEMIC MENTOR TO INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENTS (As part of core clinical faculty):07/2008 - 06/2009 William Lyndon, Ifeoma Kalu & Fatima Khan
07/2008 - 06/2011 Rachel Bracke, Jennifer Shuemaker & Shrinesh Patel
07/2009 - 06/2012 Nakshetra Saxena & Curry McEvoy07/2010 - 06/2013 Timothy A. Williams
07/2010 - 06/2011 Elizabeth Zacharia
07/2011 – 06/2014 Adam Edwards, Neha Patel & Srijita Mukherjee
07/2012 – 01/2015 Melissa Medley, Pooja Ghatalia, Khushleen Jaggi
07/2013- 01/2015 Carla Stefanescu, Carolina Alena
07/2014- 01/2015 Emily Nance and Jessica Kempton
UAB SCHOOL OF MEDICINE2015- Present Clinical Director: Renal Module 2013 – 2015 Associate Director Renal Module 2008 - Present Lecturer and Small Group Facilitator: MS1 Renal Module UAB
School of Medicine2010 Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Instructor, fall and winter
Session08/2010 UAB, Facilitating 2010 UAB Discussion Book: Outcasts United
UAB INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY07/2008 - Present UAB Internal Medicine Resident morning report
Cooper Green Hospital Internal Medicine resident and Intern Morning reportUAB Intern Morning report UAB Internal Medicine Resident Noon Conference
07/2010 - Present Monthly Renal Board Review for Block Rotation Residents
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER (Seattle):2005 HUBIO 2nd year medical student course:
Sodium and Water ProblemsAcute Renal Failure GroupGlomerulonephritis GroupTubuloinsterstitial diseasesChronic Renal FailureRenal Pathology discussant with Dr. Charlie Alpers Average evaluation 4.6/5 – highest for any small group facilitator in the previous 3 years of the course
2004 – 2006 Case presentations at Professor Rounds 2005 Division of Nephrology Grand Rounds2004 – 2006 Division of Nephrology Wednesday Fellows Conference
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO:NATIONAL06/2003 - 06/06/2004 Course Co-director 15th Annual American College of
Physicians (ACP) Internal Medicine Board Review Course, San Antonio, TX
05/29/00 - 06/01/2003 14th Annual American College of Physicians (ACP) Internal Medicine Course Co-director Board Review Course, San Antonio, TX
INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY07/2001 - 06/2004 Internal Medicine Residency, Intern Learning Group Lead
Teacher. Two, one hour weekly small group case based interactive learning sessions
07/2001 - 06/2004 Course Director and Curriculum Development, Intern Small Group, Department of Medicine 1st year interns, UTHSCSA
07/2000 - 06/2004 Faculty facilitator, Intern Morning report07/2000 - 06/2004 Faculty facilitator Resident Morning Report07/2000 - 06/2001 teaching faculty University Hospital Internal Medicine Ward
rotation07/2001 - 06/2004 Attending Physician, Inpatient Internal Medicine Ward
Rotation at Audie L Murphy Veterans Hospital07/2001 - 06/2004 Attending Physician
General Internal Medicine Residency Ambulatory ClinicMedical Student General Medicine Ambulatory ClinicMedical Student Women’s Health Ambulatory ClinicResidents Women’s Health ClinicResidents Musculoskeletal Medicine Clinic
2003 - 2004 Senior Editor, Night Float cross cover curriculum guide book, 2nd edition
2002 - 2003 Co-Editor, Night Float cross cover curriculum guide book, 1st edition
12/2003 Created a Narcotic Treatment Agreement form in English and Spanish to help improve documentation and provide improved medical care to patients on Chronic Narcotics or Benzodiazepine use
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07/2002 - 06/2004 Co-Editor, Medicine Consult service resident curriculum, Diabetes section
07/2001 – 06/2004 Leader, Intern Small Group, Department of Medicine 1st year interns, two, one hourly teaching sessions per week for academic year, UTHSCSA
07/2001 – 06/2004 Intern Small Group Curriculum Development, Kumar V, O’ Keefe ME, Department of Medicine 1st year interns, UTHSCSA
07/2001 – 06/2004 Author and Senior Editor, Intern Small Group Curriculum Development Workbook, Kumar V, O’ Keefe ME, UTHSCSA
07/2001 – 06/2004 Musculo-skeletal Medicine Elective Rotation Hand Book, Contributing authors, Conde M, Kumar V, O’Rorke JE
06/12/2002 Organized Bush Fire Survival Situation – Teaching Interns, graduating to second year residency, Team leadership and management skills at the Intern to Resident retreat, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Guadeloupe River Ranch.
07/2000 - 06/2001 contributing author to Chiefs Residents Survival Manual, Arterburn DE, Ackermann RT, Kumar V
06/15/2000 Organized Intern to Resident Retreat, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Guadeloupe River Ranch
UTSHCSA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 03/05/2004 – 04/03/2004 Small Group Facilitator for the mandatory MS4 course “On
Being a Doctor” organized by the Center for Humanities and Medical Ethics at UTHSCSA
07/1998 – 06/2004 Advanced clinical evaluation skills, 2nd year medical students University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antoni0
03/19/2004 Invited Small group facilitator for the MS4 course “Getting ready to teach during residency” elective for the practice teaching exercise by Judy Paukert, Department of Education UTHSCSA
01/2004 – 03/2004 Invited Small Group Facilitator for the MS I Clinical Integration Course- “Humanities Track”
ACADEMIC MENTOR:02/2001 - 05/2001 Dr. Carlos Taboada, Intern, Internal Medicine Residency,
University Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio02/2002 - 06/2002 Dr. Alex Nepomuceno, Intern, Internal Medicine Residency,
University Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio
MAJOR LECTURES INVITED SPEAKER (NATIONAL):
6/02/2020 Invited Moderator, American Transplant Congress, “Enhancing Living Kidney Donation.”
6/01/2020 Invited Speaker, American Transplant Congress, Adjunct ATC Symposium for American Kidney Fund
5/31/2020 Invited Moderator, American Transplant Congress,
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“Kidney Paired Exchange.”
5/31/2020 Invited Speaker, American Transplant Congress,Symposium Debate on Review the Old and New Outcome
Data Underlying the Classic and New Paradigms for Selection of Living Kidney Donors
5/30/2020 Invited Mentor/Speaker, American Transplant Congress,“AST Trainee and Young Faculty COP”
5/30/2020 Invited Speaker, American Transplant Congress, “The Landscape of Live Donation/ Overall Risk Donation”
5/2/2020 Invited Speaker and Moderator, NKF National Webinar Virtual Education Series- Let's Talk about Transplant May 2nd 2020, 2:00- 3:00pm, https://www.kidney.org/events/local-event/virtual-education-series-connect-learn-and-share
4/10/2020 Invited Speaker and Moderator - NKF Online Webinar :The Transplant Patient in a New COVID-19 World, April 10th 1-2:00pm, https://www.kidney.org/offices/nkf-serving-northern-california
3/26/2020 Invited Speaker, National Kidney Foundation, Pre-course“HLA Testing and Interpretation for the practicingClinician.
3/25/2020 Invited Speaker: Webinar, National Kidney Foundation,“Cardiovascular Risk Attenuation in the Kidney Transplant Recipient.”
3/07/2020 Session Chair/Invited Moderator, CEOT, ‘Balancing it All - Challenges, Moving Points and Opportunities for the Future of Organ Donation” https://www.myast.org/meetings/cutting-edge-transplantation/2020/2020-ceot-program
3/07/2020 Session Chair/Invited Moderator, CEOT Case Studies: “Navigating Equity and Utility in the Real World”, March 7th 2020
10/08/2019 Invited Session Moderator, American Society ofNephrology, “Let them Flow: Cell Based Therapies In Kidney Transplantation.”
10/05/2019 Invited Speaker, American Society of Nephrology,“Medical Evaluation of Potential Recipients Including important Considerations.”
10/05/2019 Invited Case Discussant, American Society of Nephrology, “Real Life Cases and Questions and Answers.”
6/20/2019 Key Note Speaker at the CMS Network 8 Provider Education
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Conference on “Why Transplant?”
6/7/2019 Invited Speaker, UAB Robert Wood Johnson Summer Program
6/2019 Invited Lecturer for AST “Transplant in Ten” Patient Education Video Lecture series on “Long Term Outcomes of Living Kidney Donation”
4/26/2019 Grand Rounds Speaker, Rhode Island Hospital, Division of Nephrology and Organ Transplantation. "Special consideration in evaluating potential living kidney donors of African-Ancestry"?
3/12/2091 Keynote Speaker, Rotary Club of India, Hyderabad, and Jubilee Hills on “Kidney Disease & Transplantation: Basics and Recent Understanding”
12/2018 Invited Lecturer, Joint ASN/AST Transplant Nephrology Core Curriculum (TNCC) on Recipient Evaluation in Kidney Transplantation, online Video recorded lecture series
10/23/2018 Invited Faculty Lecturer at American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week, Kidney Transplant Early Program on Recipient Evaluation and Wait List Management in kidney Transplantation
10/24/2018 Invited case discussant ASN Kidney Week, Real life cases: Recipient and Donor Selection and Peri-operative management
10/25/2018 Invited Faculty Lecturer at ASN Kidney Week, Early Program on Reproductive Issues and Pregnancy in Kidney Transplantation
10/25/2018 Invited case discussant ASN Kidney Week, Real life cases: Special populations
10/26/2018 Invited Panel Discussant, AST-ASN Transplant Fellow Career Choices and Networking Event
10/27/2018 Invited Moderator, American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, Where have all the Living Donors gone?
7/2/2018 Invited oral presentation, The Transplantation Society (TTS) 2018 Madrid - Very Low Levels of Microscopic Hematuria in Potential Living Kidney Donors Is Associated with Pathology That Precludes Donation- declined
7/2/2018 Invited mini presentation, The Transplantation Society (TTS) 2018 Madrid - The Altruistic Living Kidney Donor Phenotype - From Inquiry to Donation- declined
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6/02/2018 The Altruistic Living Kidney Donor Phenotype - From Inquiry to Donation, Oral presentation, American Transplant Congress, Seattle 2018
6/02/2018 Invited Moderator, American Transplant Congress, Kidney Transplantation Complications: Disease Recurrence, Seattle 2018
11/02/2017 Invited Moderator, American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week Transplant First, Dialysis Last! Innovations in Expanding Preemptive Transplant
11/01/2017 American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, Early Program, and Invited Faculty Lecturer for “Patient Survival: Cardiovascular disease and Malignancy”
11/1/2017 American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, Invited Case presenter and discussant for “Women and Children: Special Population”
11/16/2016 American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week Early Program, Invited Faculty Lecturer on “Women and Children: Special Population”
11/16/2016 American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, Invited Case presenter and discussant for “Women and Children: Special Population”
06/04/2016 American Transplant Congress (ATC) , Invited Faculty Speaker, Workshop, “Achieving Autonomy” for the Medical Trainee
11/17/2015 Invited Guest of Honor at the National Schwartz Center for Compassionate Care Annual Dinner
11/04/2015 Invited Panel Discussant for Trainees at ASN for “Nephrology as a Career in Medicine”
11/03/2015 American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week Early Program, Invited Faculty Lecturer on “Women and Children: Special Population”
11/03/2015 American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week Early, Invited Case presenter and discussant for “Women and Children: Special Population”
05/06/2012 Invited Speaker at Clinico-Pathologic Conference on “A case of Antibody Mediated Rejection”, American Transplant Congress 2012
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03/2012 Invited Speaker, Post-Transplant Antibody Monitoring” at Advanced HLA Technical Workshop and Clinical Histocompatibility Workshop. One Lambda Meeting, Hawaii
10/2011 Oral Abstract Presenter, Impact of Time from Transplant and Renal Function at Diagnosis of Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection (AMR) on Long term Outcomes in Patients Treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin(IVIG)” Kumar, V, Gaston RS, Univ of MN Transplant Immunosuppression Conference
INVITED MODERATOR (NATIONAL)
2012-Present Moderator, ASN Annual Meeting
2010 – Present Moderator, AST Annual Meeting
2013 - 2016 Moderator, AST Timely Topics in Transplantation Webinar series
2013 – 2016 Moderator, AST Online Journal Club series
INVITED SPEAKER (REGIONAL AND STATE COMMUNITY/PATIENT EDUCATION):
4/16/2020 Key Note Speaker; 2020 Inter-professional Transplant Conference: Ensuring Excellence in Patient Outcomes Conference , “Role of the Health Care Professional in Increasing Donor Awareness” , UAB School of Nursing
2/18- 2/20/2020 Junior Teacher Faculty at UAB R2 Vital Talk Faculty Development Course (24 UAB faculty)
1/9/2020 Course facilitator/teacher, Advanced communication training course facilitator/teacher Jan 9th, 2020 8:00 am- noon, UAB Alumni House
10/3/2019 Course facilitator/teacher, Advanced communication training Oct 3rd, 2019 8:00 am- noon to incoming nurse practitioners, Beyond the Edge of Chaos
10/28-10/31/2020 Junior Associate/Teacher Faculty at UAB R1 Vital Talk Faculty Development Course (24 UAB faculty)
10/2019 Invited Speaker, Children’s of Alabama, Heart Transplant Team, “Role of HLA in Pre and Post-Transplant Care”
7/2/2019 Workshop Facilitator for the NIDDK R25 UAB Program Promote (PredOctoral PHD and MD research training in Teams) on “Why Transplantation?”
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4/23/2019 Featured Speaker at UAB Patient Experience Week Returning to the Heart of Health Care. “Good Will Hunting; or Hunting for Good Will”
3/2019 Faculty Instructor, Advanced Communication Training (ACT) workshop for CSTA (Clinical Skills and Training Assessment) Scholars – MS4 medical students
2/2019 Speaker, NRTC Spring series “Microscopic Hematuria in Living Kidney Donors”
2017-- Present Annual Lecturer, Nephrology Fellow Noon conference series- Introduction to HLA part I and II - Evaluation of the Living Kidney Donor
2018- Present Facilitator and Speaker, Living Donor Navigator Program Panelist meetings
2018- Present Facilitator and Speaker, Living Donor Champion Program
9/13/2018 Invited Inaugural Speaker at the UAB School of Medicine Chapter of American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
7/24/2018 Invited Speaker, Introduction to HLA and transplantation Part II - UAB and Children’s Hospital of Alabama Solid organ transplantation coordinators and HLA lab personnel, Nursing CE/CU credit, activity
6/26/2018 Invited Speaker, Introduction to HLA and transplantation Part I - UAB and Children’s Hospital of Alabama Solid organ transplantation coordinators and HLA lab personnel, Nursing CE/CU credit, activity
6/18/2018 Invited Speaker, UAB Core Concepts in Kidney Research Spring Series - Kidney transplant and pregnancy
6/11/2018 Invited Speaker, UAB Core Concepts in Kidney Research Spring Series - Living Kidney Donation and Sex Differences, co presentation with Dr. Jayme Locke
10/06/2017 Invited Moderator, Mental Health Stigma Panel, UAB 1st Annual Psychiatric Symposium hosted by UAB Medicine Center for Psychiatric Medicine
10/28/2014 Invited Lecturer, ANNA Hazel Taylor Chapter 239: The 30th Annual Nephrology Update. Title: Renal Transplant Update 2014 – Incompatible Kidney Transplantation at UAB
04/2014 Invited Grand Rounds Speaker, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Campus, UAB Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program
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10/2013 Invited Speaker, Alabama Kidney Foundation Patient Education Conference, Birmingham, Alabama. UAB Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program
05/2013 Alabama Organ Center Annual Picnic – Invited Speaker regarding “Living Donation in the Community”
09/11/2011 Invited Speaker, Alabama Kidney Foundation, 2011 Mobile Kidney Patient Education Conference. Mobile, AL: Understanding and Advocating for your Kidney Transplant Health
09/26/2010 Invited Speaker, Alabama Kidney Foundation, 2010 North Alabama Kidney Patient Education Conference, Huntsville, AL: Access to Transplantation
07/24/2010 Invited Speaker, Health Fair, New Bethlehem Baptist Church, Bessemer, AL
10/05/2008 Invited Speaker, Central Alabama Kidney Patient Education Conference, Birmingham, AL, and General Session: Understanding and Advocating for your Kidney Health
11/02/2008 Invited Speaker, Central Alabama Kidney Patient Education Conference, Huntsville, AL, and General Session: Understanding and Advocating for your Kidney Health
INVITED SPEAKER (CME RELATED ACTIVITIES):08/25/2011 Invited Speaker, UAB Hospital, the Department of Nursing
Education and Professional Development Presents “Solid Organ Transplant Nursing Seminar” CME: Care of the Renal Transplant Patient
10/2010 Invited Speaker, UAB nursing CME: Incompatible Renal Transplant Program
05/2010 Invited Speaker, Birmingham VA biannual Nursing CME conference: Care of the Renal Transplant Patient
INVITED SPEAKER AT ANOTHER INSTITUTION12/18/2006 Chronic Allograft Nephropathy – Is there a Role of Podocyte
Injury? University of Texas Health Science Center Research Conference, San Antonio, TX
GRANT SUPPORT: (PAST AND CURRENT)06/2011 Randomized Study of the Efficacy and Safety of LCP-
Tacro™. Phase III, double blinded, MultiCenter, Prospective, Randomized Study. Life Cycle Pharma. Co-Principal Investigator
07/2008 Center PI NIH Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT-2) B-Cell Depletion by Anti-CD20 (Rituximab) in Renal Allograft Recipients Who Develop de novo Anti-HLA
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Alloantibodies Will Result in Inhibition of Alloantibody Production and Attenuation of Chronic Humoral Rejection (CTOT-02)
Preserving renal function and protective immunity via anti-LFA-1 based CNI avoidance, CTOT 15 Sub-Investigator, UAB
Optimization of Belatacept usage as a means of minimizing CN1-exposure in simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation CTOT 10/15/16 Sub Investigator, UAB
An open-label, Phase 2 study to treat patients with renal allograft and Polyoma BK Viruria to prevent Polyoma BK Viremia, Polyoma BK Nephropathy and renal allograft rejection – Sub-Investigator
Treg Adoptive Therapy in Subclinical Inflammation in Kidney Transplantation (TASK) (CTOT-21) (Novel therapies to modulate the inflammatory alloresponse in renal grafts) – Sub-Investigator
Treatment of chronic antibody-mediated rejection (CAMR) in kidney transplantation with Acthar – Sub-Investigator
A 24 month, multicenter, randomized, open-label safety and efficacy study of concentration-controlled everolimus with reduced calcineurin inhibitor vs mycophenolate with standard calcineurin inhibitor in de novo renal transplantation- advancing renal transplant efficacy and safety outcomes with an everolimus-based regimen (TRANSFORM) – Sub-Investigator
A Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of QPI-1002 for prevention of delayed graft function in recipients of a donation after brain death older donor kidney transplant – Sub-Investigator
Circulating donor-derived cell-free DNA in blood for diagnosing acute rejection in kidney transplant recipients (DART) – Sub-Investigator
Molecular biomarkers in renal transplantation – Sub-Investigator
Randomized controlled trial of Infliximab (Remicade®) induction therapy for deceased donor kidney transplant recipients (CTOT-19) – Sub-Investigator
Astagraf XL® to understand the impact of immunosuppression on De Novo DSA development and chronic immune activation in kidney transplantation – Sub-Investigator
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Active IRB ProtocolsIRB-081117004 - The UAB Experience in Cellular and Antibody Mediated Rejection in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients, PI
IRB-090503006 - Outcome of patients with end-stage renal disease awaiting transplantation, PI
IRB-140509006 - Morphometric Analysis of Waitlisted ESRD Patient, co-PI
IRB-140718001 - Transplant Pharmacogenomics: Influence of Clinical, Demographic, and Genetic Factors on Outcomes (Personalization of Solid Organ Transplant Medicine) co-PI
IRB-140925010 - Relationship of Cardiac Troponin I to Adverse Outcome in End Stage Renal Diseases Patients Awaiting Kidney Transplantation. PI
IRB-150810002 - Using Microarrays to Asses Transplant Biopsies: The Future Standard of Care (INTERCOMEX: The INTERCOM Extension Study), co-PI
IRB-150928007 - Circulating Donor-Derived Cell Free DNA in Blood for Diagnosing Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients (DART) CAREDX INC. co-PI
IRB-151028001 - A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of QPI-1002 for Prevention of Delayed Graft Function in Recipients of a Donation After Brain Death Older Donor Kidney Transplant (ReGIFT) (Sponsor's Protocol QRK306, Protocol Amendment 1: 13 August 2015 )QUARK PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. co-PI
IRB-151130010 - Outcomes of Very Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Patients at UAB, PI
BIBLIOGRAPHY:MANUSCRIPTS:
PUBLISHED:1. Pijl H, Ohashi S, Matsuda M, Miyazaki Y, Mahankali A, Kumar V, Pipek R,
Lozzo P, Lancaster JL, Cincotta A, Defronzo RA. Bromocriptine: A novel approach to the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 2000 Aug; 23(8): 1154-61.
2. Iozzo P, Pratipanawatr T, Pijl H, Vogt C, Kumar V, Pipek R, Matsuda M, Mandarino LJ, Cusi KJ, DeFronzo RA. Physiologic hyperinsulinemia impairs insulin-stimulated glycogen synthetase activity and glycogen synthesis. American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology & Metabolism 2001 May; 280(5): E712-9.
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3. Diehl AK, Kumar V, Gateley A, Appleby J, O’Keefe ME. Predictors of Final Specialty Choice by Internal Medicine Residents J Gen Intern Med 2006 Oct; 21:1045-1049
4. Kumar V, Elkins S, Gaston RS, Prendergast MB, Reddy V, Cook WJ, Sanders PW. Bortezomib Successfully Reduces Monoclonal Serum Free Light Chain Levels in a Patient with Recurrent Myeloma and Cast Nephropathy in the Renal Transplant. Clinical Transplant Dec 2009.
5. Kumar V, Julian BA, Deierhoi MH, Curtis JJ. Secondary Listing for Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation Does not Increase Likelihood of Engraftment at a Large Transplant Center. Am J Transplantation. Brief Communication. 2009 June; 9;1671-73
6. Kumar V, Pippin J, Stein A, Jablonski P, Shankland S, Davis C. The Contribution of Podocytes to Chronic Allograft Nephropathy. Nephron Exp Nephrol 9.2009;111:e1-e10
7. Pavlakis M, Kumar V. Co-editor. Introduction to the Well-Transplant Visit – More than Vital Signs and a Creatinine Check. Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology. see www.CJASN.org Vol 6 pg 1773, July, 2011
8. Kumar V, Gaston RS. Advances in Kidney Transplant Immunosuppression: Emerging Biologics. Dialysis and Transplantation Jan 2011, DOI: 10.1002/dat 20525.
9. B.T. Lee, V. Kumar, T.A. Williams, R. Abdi, A. Bernhardy, C. Dyer, S. Conte, G. Genovese, M.D. Ross, D.J. Friedman. R.S. Gaston, E. Milford, M.R. Pollak, A.K. Chandraker. APOL 1 Gene Variants in African Americans Appears to Impact Long Term Kidney Allograft Survival. American Journal of Transplantation. July 2012 4.doi:10.1111/j.1600-6143.2012.04033. PMID 22487534
10. Kumar V. Medscape write up – Shaping the Future of Transplant Immunosuppression: Highlights from Boston ATC 2012. “Biologics in Solid Organ Transplantation” – Released 7/31/2012, available for CME credit until July 31 2013
11. Dawoud D, Harms J, Williams T, Kumar, V, Allon M. Predialysis Vascular Access Surgery in Patients with Failing Kidney Transplants. Am J Kidney Disease, 2013 May ajkd.2013.03.033. [Epub ahead of print]
12. Gaston RS, Kumar V, Matas AJ. Reassessing Risk in Living Kidney Donors. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014 September 25. Pii: ASN.2014030227. [Epub ahead of print]
13. V. Kumar and J.A. Tallaj. To Transplant a Kidney With the Heart or Not – That Is the Real Question. Am J Transplant . 2014 Feb;14(2):253-4
14. Huprikar S, Danziger Isakov, Kumar V, Bloom RD, Kumar D. Solid Organ Transplantation From Hepatitis B Virus-Positive Donors: Consensus Guidelines for Recipient Management. Am J Transplant. 2015 Feb 23. Doi: 10.1111/ajt.13187. [Epub ahead of print]
15. Lee RA , Ray M, Kasuga DT, Kumar V, Witherspoon CD, Baddley JW. Ocular bartonellosis in transplant recipients: two case reports and review of the literature. PMID: 26146758. Transpl Infect Dis. 2015 Jul 4. Doi: 10.1111/tid.12418
16. Kumar, V., Current status on the evaluation and management of the highly sensitized kidney transplant recipient. Current Opinions Nephrol Hypertens 2015 Nov;24(6):570-5
17. Ong SC, White J, Hauptfeld-Dolejsek V, Kumar V. Outcomes in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplants in the Setting of a Positive
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Crossmatch: A Single Center Experience. Clin Transpl. 2016; 32:119-125. PMID: 28564529
18. Agarwal G, Diskin CD, Williams TA, Kumar V. Late Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Outcomes after Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy. Clin Transpl. 2016; 32:111-118. PMID: 28564528
19. Locke JE, Carr JJ, Nair S, Terry JG, Reed RD, Smith GD, Segev DL, Kumar V, Lewis CE. Abdominal lean muscle is associated with lower mortality among kidney waitlist candidates. Clin Transplant. 2017 Mar; 31(3) PMID: 28075034
20. Locke JE, Reed RD, Massie A, MacLennan PA, Sawinski D, Kumar V, Mehta S, Mannon RB, Gaston R, Lewis CE, Segev DL. Obesity increases the risk of end-stage renal disease among living kidney donors. Kidney Int. 2017 Mar; 91(3):699-703. PMID:28041626
21. Smith B, Kumar V, Mompoint-Williams D, Reed RD, MacLennan PA, Stegner K, Locke JE. Dosing Eculizumab for Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report. Transplant Proc. 2016 Nov; 48(9):3099-3105. PMID: 27932156
22. Locke JE, Sawinski D, Reed RD, Shelton B, MacLennan PA, Kumar V, Mehta S, Mannon RB, Gaston R, Julian BA, Carr JJ, Terry JG, Kilgore M, Massie AB, Segev DL, Lewis CE. Apolipoprotein L1 and Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in Young Potential Living Kidney Donors. Ann Surg., 2017 PMID:28187045
23. Farag A, Aljaroudi W, Neill J, Doppalapudi H, Kumar V, Rizk D, Iskandrian A, Hage F. Prognostic Value of Silent Myocardial Infarction in End Stage Renal Disease., International Journal of Cardiology – Accepted, epub, September 2017
24. Ives CW, AlJaroudi WA, Kumar V, Farag A, Rizk DV, Oparil S, Iskandrian AE, Hage FG.: Prognostic value of myocardial perfusion imaging performed pre-renal transplantation: post-transplantation follow-up and outcomes. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2018 PMID: 29882159
25. Redefining the Influence of Ethnicity on Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Outcomes: A 15-Year Single-Center Experience. Young CJ, MacLennan PA, Mannon EC, Reed RD, Shelton BA, Hanaway MJ, Agarwal G, Gaston RS, Julian BA, Kew CE 2nd, Kumar V, Mannon RB, Mehta S, Ong SC, Towns GC, Deierhoi MH, Locke JE. Ann Surg. 2018 May 17. Doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002816. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 29781845
26. Locke JE, Sawinski D, Reed RD, Shelton B, MacLennan PA, Kumar V, Mehta S, Mannon RB, Gaston R, Julian BA, Carr JJ, Terry JG, Kilgore M, Massie AB, Segev DL, Lewis CE.: Apolipoprotein L1 and Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in Young Potential Living Kidney Donors. Ann Surg. 2018 Jun; 267(6):1161-1168. PMID: 28187045
27. Population Health, Ethnicity, and Rate of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Reed RD, Sawinski D, Shelton BA, MacLennan PA, Hanaway M, Kumar V, Long D, Gaston RS, Kilgore ML, Julian BA, Lewis CE, Locke JE. Transplantation. 2018 Dec; 102(12):2080-2087. Doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002286.
28. Curtis LM, Kumar V: Sex difference in acute presentations of kidney disease. Accepted, in press, Nov, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Pulse, 2018
29. Enhanced Advocacy and Health Systems Training through Patient Navigation Increases Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Locke JE, Reed RD, Kumar V, Berry B, Hendricks D, Carter A, Shelton BA,
pg. 29 Vineeta Kumar, M.D.
Mustian MN, MacLennan PA, Qu H, Hannon L, Yates C, Hanaway MJ. Transplantation. 2019 Apr 1. Doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002732. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30946213
30. Obesity and long-term mortality risk among living kidney donors. Locke JE, Reed RD, Massie AB, MacLennan PA, Sawinski D, Kumar V, Snyder JJ, Carter AJ, Shelton BA, Mustian MN, Lewis CE, Segev DL. Surgery. 2019 May 6. Pii: S0039-6060(19)30167-9. Doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2019.03.016. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31072668
31. Patient Perspectives on Weight Management for Living Kidney Donation. Mustian MN, Hanaway M, Kumar V, Reed RD, Shelton BA, Grant R, Carter A, Locke JE. J Surg Res. 2019 Jul 3; 244:50-56. Doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2019.06.026. [Epub ahead of print]PMID:31279263
32. Mitigating Racial and Gender Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Impact of the Nation’s Longest Single-Center Kidney Chain. Annals of Surgery, Accepted April 2019, in press, Kumar V, Locke JE
33. Pregnancy in a Kidney Transplant Patient. Ong SC, Kumar V. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Aug 26. pii: CJN.03910319. doi: 10.2215/CJN.03910319. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 31451514
34. Donation approval among obese living kidney donor candidates: The impact of metabolic syndrome. Mustian MN, Kumar V, Hanaway M, MacLennan PA, Shelton BA, Reed RD, Correya T, Grant R, Carter A, Baker G, Patterson J, Peoples M, Holden S, Orandi BJ, Locke JE. Surgery. 2019 Aug 20. pii: S0039-6060(19)30456-8. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2019.07.008. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31444005
35. Clinical Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation: How Close Are We? Cooper DKC, Hara H, Iwase H, Yamamoto T, Jagdale A, Kumar V, Mannon RB, Hanaway MJ, Anderson DJ, Eckhoff DE. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Jan;31(1):12-21. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2019070651. Epub 2019 Dec 2.
36. Evaluation and Care of International Living Kidney Donor Candidates: Strategies for Addressing Common Considerations & Challenges, Ellen Shukhman, RN,1* Julia Hunt, MSW,2* Dianne LaPointe-Rudow, DNP,2 Didier Mandelbrot, MD,3 Vineeta Kumar, MD,4 Heidi Schaefer, MD,5 Fawaz Al Ammary, MD, PhD,6 Macey L. Henderson, JD,6 PhD, Angie Nishio-Lucar, MD,7 Matthew Cooper, MD,8 Rebecca Hays, MSW, APSW,3 Krista L. Lentine, MD, PhD9. Clinical Transplantation
37. Attitudes to Clinical Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation among Medical Providers and Patients. Luz A. Padilla, Daniel Hurst, Raymond Lopez, Vineeta Kumar, David K.C. Cooper and Wayne Paris Kidney360 July 2020, 1 (7) 657-662; https://doi.org/10.34067/KID.0002082020
38. Combined Thoracic-Kidney Transplantation Practices May Exacerbate Existing Geographic Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation Article in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 39(4):S366-S367 10.1016/j.healun.2020.01.451
39. Use of Patient Navigators to Reduce Barriers in Living Donation and Living Donor Transplantation April 2020, Current Transplantation Reports, 10.1007/s40472-020-00280-4
40. Reed RD, Kale AC, Mustian MN, Hendricks DH, Baldwin KN, Kumar V, Dionne-Odom JN, Saag K, Hites L, Ivankova NV, Locke JL. The Living Donor Navigator Program Provides Support Tools for Caregivers. Progress in Transplantation, September 15, 2020.
Accepted in Press:
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1. Clinical Transplantation: Care of International Living Kidney Donor Candidates in the United States: A Survey of Contemporary Experience, Practice and Challenges
2. Kidney International Reports: Survey of U.S. Living Kidney Donation and Transplant Practices in the COVID-19 Era"
3. Transplantation: Patient selection for initial clinical trials of pig kidney xenotransplantation.
Submitted:1. Self-Advocacy is Associated with Lower Likelihood of Living Donor Kidney
Transplantation - Aug 1 20202. Clinical Transplantation: Xenotransplantation Review
In preparation 1. Kumar V, Mompoint Williams D Impact of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) in
Highly Sensitized Patients. 2. Saha M, Fatima H, Julian BA, Bonventre M, Hanaway M, Gaston R, Kumar V.
Minor Degree of Isolated Asymptomatic Microscopic Hematuria in Potential Living Kidney donors is Associated with Pathology But May Not Preclude Donation. 2019
3. Post-Transplant Anti- A Titer >1:128 in A2-Incompatible Kidney Recipients is Associated with Subclinical Antibody Mediated Rejection
OTHER PUBLICATIONS1. Boston ATC 2012 Living Donor Passport2. Boston ATC 2012 Multi Organ Transplant Passport
PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS:1. Kumar V, Gaston RS. Chapter Contribution: Immunosuppression: Past, present, and
future. Organ Transplantation, a Clinical Guide. 2011. 0780521197533 Hardback2. Metabolic and Cardiovascular Risks for Living Kidney Donation: Best Practices in
Evaluation, Care and Follow-up, Kumar V, Locke JE, 2019, In press
REVIEWS/EDITORIALS:1. Review, editorials, Member, Article Review Group - The best evidence from ACP
Journal Club for Gen. Internal Medicine, 1999. [Editorial] ACP J Club1999; 13-16: A12. Kumar V, Tallaj JA. To Transplant a Kidney With the Heart or Not – That Is the
Real Question. Am J Transplant. 2014 Feb; 14(2):253-43. Gaston RS, Kumar V, Matas AJ. Reassessing Risk in Living Kidney Donors. J Am Soc
Nephrol 2014 [Epub ahead of print]
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM:Update ASN/ATC abstracts 2018-2020
1. Impact Of Subclinical Bk Virus- associated Nephropathy In High-risk Recipients M. E. Seifert E. P. Kasik, M. Bernard, G. Agarwal, H. Fatima, R. Gaston, B. Julian, C. Kew, V. Kumar, S. Mehta, S. Ong, F. Rosenblum, G. Towns, R. B. Mannon, ATC 2019
2. Care of International Living Kidney Donor Candidates in the U.S.: A Survey of Contemporary Experience, Practice & Challenges K. Lentine1, M. Henderson2, S. Rasmussen2, E. Shukhman3, J. Hunt4, F. Al Ammary2, V. Kumar5, D. Lapointe- Rudow4, H. Schaefer6, M. Cooper7, R. Hays8, M. Dunbar-Forrest9, A. Nishio- Lucar10, D. Mandelbrot8 ATC 2019
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3. Enhanced Advocacy and Health Systems Training through Patient Navigation Increases Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation R. D. Reed1, V. Kumar1, B. Berry1, D. Hendricks1, A. Carter1, B. A. Shelton1, M. N. Mustian1, P. A. MacLennan1, H. Qu1, L. Hannon2, C. Yates2, M. J. Hanaway1, J. E. Locke1 ATC 2019
4. Mitigating Racial and Gender Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Impact of the Nation’s Longest Single-Center Kidney Chain M. N. Mustian, V. Kumar, K. Stegner, D. Mompoint-Williams, M. Hanaway, M. H. Deierhoi, C. Young, B. Orandi, D. Anderson, P. A. MacLennan, R. D. Reed, B. A. Shelton, D. Eckhoff, J. E. Locke. ATC 2019
5. Post-Transplant Anti- A Titer >1:128 in A2-Incompatible Kidney Recipients is Associated with Subclinical Antibody Mediated Rejection V. Kumar, D. Williams, P. MacLennan, M. Mustian, B. Orandi, L. Williams, J. Locke. ATC 2019
6. Effect of Race and Antibody-Mediated Injury on Outcomes after Early Subclinical Inflammation E. P. Kasik, M. E. Seifert, M. Bernard, G. Agarwal, H. Fatima, R. Gaston, B. Julian, C. Kew, V. Kumar, S. Mehta, S. Ong, F. Rosenblum, G. Towns, R. B. Mannon
7. Preemptive Kidney Transplantation: Is There a Role for ABO Incompatible Transplantation? (Abstract #124) M. N. Mustian1, B. A. Shelton1, P. A. MacLennan1, R. D. Reed1, G. McGwin1, B. J. Orandi1, D. Sawinski2, V. Kumar1, J. E. Locke1 ATC 2019
8. Reed R, Shelton B, MacLennan P, Hanaway M, Kumar V, Gaston R, Locke J. Lower Rates of Living Donation Among Transplant Centers Located in the Stroke Belt. American Transplant Congress, 2017
9. Reed R, Shelton B, MacLennan P, Hanaway M, Kumar V, Gaston R, Locke J. State Population Health and Center-Level Variation in Rate of Living Kidney Donation. American Transplant Congress, 2017
10. Locke J, Sawinski D, Reed R, Shelton S, MacLennan P, Kumar V, Mehta S, Mannon R, Gaston R, Julian B, Carr J, Terry J, Kilgore M, Massie A, Segev D, Lewis C. Apolipoprotein L1 & Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in Young Potential Living Kidney Donors. American Transplant Congress, 2017
11. Kumar V, Saha M, Locke J, Gaston R, Hanaway M. Minor Degree of Persistent Microscopic Hematuria in Potential Living Kidney Donors Is Associated with Pathology. American Transplant Congress, 2017
12. Locke J, Lewis C, Reed R, Kumar V, Sawinski D, Massie A, MacLennan P, Mannon R, Gaston R, Segev D. Obesity Is Associated with Increased Risk of ESRD Among Living Kidney Donors. American Transplant Congress, 2016
13. MacLennan P, Kumar V, Reed R, Mompoint-Williams D, Stegner K, Locke J. Risk of Acute Rejection among ABO Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Recipients. American Transplant Congress, 2016
14. Early Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System (KAS) in Highly Sensitized Patients. Mompoint-Williams D, Gaston R, Jeremy G, Locke J, Kumar V. American Transplant Congress, 2016
15. Locke J, Reed R, Sawinski D, Maclennan P, Kumar V, Mehta S, Carr J, Terry J, Massie A, Kilgore M, Gaston R, Mannon R, Segev D, Lewis C. Kidney Failure Risk Projection for the Young Living Kidney Donor Candidate. American Society of Nephrology, 2016
16. Diskin D, Williams T, Reed R, Locke J, Mannon RB, Gaston R, Kumar V. To treat or not to treat: late antibody mediated rejection in kidney transplant recipients. 2nd World Transplant Congress, July, 2013, San Francisco, CA
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17. Kumar V, Hauptfeld-Dolejsek V, Abdelkader A, Goodman J, Locke J, Gaston R. Preexisting Donor Specific Antibody (DSA) with a Negative Flow Crossmatch (FCXM) Should Not Preclude Kidney Transplantation. Oral presentation ATC 2013 May, Seattle
18. Baddley J, Klausing B, Brizendine K, Kumar V, Julian B, Eckhoff D, Tallaj J, Willie K, Moser S, Pappas P. Treatment of Cryptococcosis in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Relapse is Rare after Discontinuation of Therapy. Poster presentation ATC 2013 May, Seattle
19. Kumar V, Kew C, Julian B, Gaston R. When Is It Too Late To Treat Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection? Poster Session: Kidney: Antibody Mediated Rejection ATC 2012 June Boston
20. Lee B, Kumar V, Williams T, Gaston R, Miliford E, Pollak M, Chandraker A. APOL1 Gene Variants in African Americans Impact Long-Term Kidney Allograft Survival. Poster Session: Kidney Complications: Late Graft Failure. ATC 2012 June Boston
21. Naqvi F, Cook W, Kumar V. De Novo and Recurrent Membranous Nephropathy Post Transplantation: Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes. Medicine/Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Poster Session: Kidney Complications: Late Graft Failure. ATC 2012 June Boston
22. Al-Solaiman Y, DeMattos A, Marques M, Kumar V. Degree of Proteinuria at Completion of Plasma Exchange is a Predictor of Allograft Loss in Recurrent FSGS. Poster Session: Bone and Mineral / Specific Diseases. ATC 2012 June Boston
23. Kumar V, Hauptfeld-Dolejsek V, Senkbeil R, Mannon R, Gaston RS, Bynon S, Dubay D. Outcomes in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplants in the Setting of a Positive Crossmatch. University of Alabama at Birmingham. Poster Session: Liver: Immunosuppression Acute / Chronic Rejection. World Transplant Congress 2011 April
24. Goodman J, Kumar V, Gaston RS, Hanaway M. Racial Disparities in the Evaluation and Selection of Living Kidney Donors. Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL ATC 2010 May San Diego
25. Khamash H, Hanaway M, Mannon R, Kumar V, Julian B, Cook W, Gaston R. Outcomes of Low Immunologic Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs) Receiving Depletional Induction. Medicine\Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham ATC 2010 May San Diego
26. Khamash H, Gaston R, Kumar V, Prendergast M, Julian B, Kew C, Mannon R. The Protective Effect of Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) Blockade in the Development of New Onset Diabetes after Transplantation (NODAT). Medicine\Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham Concurrent Session. Kidney: Complications. May 2010 ATC, San Diego
27. Goodman J, Kumar V, Gaston R, Hanaway M. How Many Donors Does It Take? An Analysis of Living Kidney Donor Evaluation, from Initial Contact to Donor Surgery. Surgery, UAB, Birmingham, AL; Medicine, ATC 2010 May San Diego
28. Kumar V, Khamash H, Julian B, Prendergast M, Kew C, Hauptfeld V, Gaston R. Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Outcomes at a Single Center. American Transplant Congress, Boston, 2009 May
29. Jain G, Julian B, Kumar V. Diabetic Nephropathy in Renal Allografts: A Single-Center Experience. American Transplant Congress, Boston, 2009 May
30. A Ten Year Review of Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Allografts in African Americans (AA) at a Single Center. Kelpke S, Hanaway M, Deierhoi M, Gaston R, Kew C, Julian B, Kumar V, Khamash H, Prendergast M, Young C. American Transplant Congress, Boston, 2009 May
31. A. Chandraker, B. Mfarrej, S. De Serres, I. Guleria, C. Dyer, N. Najafian, Y. Morrison, N. Bridges, D. Ikle, W. Bennett, A. B. Cosimi, J. Friedewald, A. O. Gaber, N. Goes, B.
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Kaplan, V. Kumar, D. Norman, A. Olyaei, M. Pavlakis, F. Weng, P. West, F. Vincenti, M. H. Sayegh. Evidence for Immune Activation in Kidney Transplant Recipients Who Develop Anti-HLA Antibodies: Interim Report of CTOT-02. American Transplant Congress, Boston, 2009 May
32. Khamash H, Gaston R, Julian B, Kew C, Kumar V, Prendergast M, Deierhoi M, Young C, Goodman J, Cook W, Curtis J, Mannon R, Hanaway M. Alemtuzumab Induction with Early Steroid Withdrawal: Assessment of Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation at a Single Center. American Transplant Congress, Boston, 2009 May.
33. Kumar V, Khamash H, Mannon R, Gaston RS, Hauptfeld. Preformed Anti-HLA Antibodies (non donor specific) Influence the Time Course of Acute AMR in Renal Transplant Patients. AST Winter Symposium, Banff 2009 March
34. Kumar V, Pippin JB, Stein A, Jablonski P, Davis C, Shankland S. The Contribution of the Podocyte to Chronic Allograft Nephropathy. Medicine/Nephrology, University of Washington Seattle, WA. Transplantation and Renal Research Group, Central & Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Praharan, Victoria, Australia. J Am Soc Nephrol. 542 A Vol 17 Nov. 2006
35. Kumar V, Pippin JB, Logar CM, Shankland SJ. Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) is Protective Against Podocyte Injury. Medicine/Division of Nephrology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA. J Am Soc Nephrol. 612 A Vol 17 Nov. 2006
36. Kumar V, Diehl AK, Gateley A, Appleby JL, O'Keefe ME. Training international medical graduates will not increase the supply of practicing general internists: The Resident Careers Cohort Study. J Gen Intern Med 2004 May; 19 (suppl 1):228-229.
37. Kumar V, Keefe MO. Intern Learning Groups: What are they? Journal of General Internal Medicine, Volume 18, Supplement 1, April 2003: 114-15.
38. Pipek R, Vogt C, Matsuda M, Iozzo P, Cruz J, Kumar V. Plasma Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha correlates with Insulin Resistance in Mexican Americans. Diabetes. 47(1S) Supplement: 346A, May 1998.
39. Iozzo P, Pijl H, Kumar V, Vogt C, Pipek R, Mandarino L, Defronzo RA. Sustained Physiologic Hyperinsulinemia decreased Glycogen Synthase activity (GS) in Human Muscle Tissue in Vivo without affecting Hexokinase II (HKII). Diabetes. 47(1S) Supplement: 65A, May 1998
POSTER PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM:
1. ASN 2018 Poster Presentation: A Case of MGRS: The Importance of History and the Sin of Omission. Narsimha Keetha, Vineeta Kumar, Huma Fatima, Song Ong.
2. RIME Week Poster Presentation: A Case of MGRS: The Importance of History and the Sin of Omission Narsimha Keetha, Vineeta Kumar, Huma Fatima, Song Ong. Sept 2018
3. RIME Week Poster Presentation: Post-lecture content questions are associated with higher exam scores for first-year medical students in the renal module Eric Judd MD, Vineeta Kumar MD, Mark Bevensee, PhD. Sept 2018
4. Reed R, Shelton B, MacLennan P, Hanaway M, Kumar V, Gaston R, Locke J. Lower Rates of Living Donation Among Transplant Centers Located in the Stroke Belt. American Transplant Congress, 2017
5. Reed R, Shelton B, MacLennan P, Hanaway M, Kumar V, Gaston R, Locke J. State Population Health and Center-Level Variation in Rate of Living Kidney Donation. American Transplant Congress, 2017
6. Locke J, Sawinski D, Reed R, Shelton S, MacLennan P, Kumar V, Mehta S, Mannon R, Gaston R, Julian B, Carr J, Terry J, Kilgore M, Massie A, Segev D, Lewis C. Apolipoprotein L1 & Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in Young Potential Living Kidney Donors. American Transplant Congress, 2017
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7. Kumar V, Saha M, Locke J, Gaston R, Hanaway M. Minor Degree of Persistent Microscopic Hematuria in Potential Living Kidney Donors Is Associated with Pathology. American Transplant Congress, 2017
8. Locke J, Lewis C, Reed R, Kumar V, Sawinski D, Massie A, MacLennan P, Mannon R, Gaston R, Segev D. Obesity Is Associated with Increased Risk of ESRD Among Living Kidney Donors. American Transplant Congress, 2016
9. MacLennan P, Kumar V, Reed R, Mompoint-Williams D, Stegner K, Locke J. Risk of Acute Rejection among ABO Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Recipients. American Transplant Congress, 2016
10. Early Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System (KAS) in Highly Sensitized Patients. Mompoint-Williams D, Gaston R, Jeremy G, Locke J, Kumar V. American Transplant Congress, 2016
11. Locke J, Reed R, Sawinski D, Maclennan P, Kumar V, Mehta S, Carr J, Terry J, Massie A, Kilgore M, Gaston R, Mannon R, Segev D, Lewis C. Kidney Failure Risk Projection for the Young Living Kidney Donor Candidate. American Society of Nephrology, 2016
12. Baddley J, Klausing B, Brizendine K, Kumar V, Julian BA, Eckhoff D, Tallaj J, Willie K, Moser S, Pappas P. Treatment of Cryptococcosis in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Relapse is Rare After Discontinuation of Therapy. Poster presentation American Transplant Congress, 2013, Seattle
13. Kumar V, Kew C, Julian B, Gaston R. When Is It Too Late To Treat Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection? Poster Session: Kidney: Antibody Mediated Rejection. American Transplant Congress, 2012, Boston
14. Lee B, Kumar V, Williams T, Gaston R, Miliford E, Pollak M, Chandraker A. APOL1 Gene Variants in African Americans Impact Long-Term Kidney Allograft Survival. Poster Session: Kidney Complications: Late Graft Failure. American Transplant Congress, 2012, Boston
15. Naqvi F, Cook W, Kumar V. De Novo and Recurrent Membranous Nephropathy Post Transplantation: Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes. Medicine/Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Poster Session: Kidney Complications: Late Graft Failure. American Transplant Congress, 2012, Boston
16. Al-Solaiman Y, DeMattos A, Marques M, Kumar V. Degree of Proteinuria at Completion of Plasma Exchange is a Predictor of Allograft Loss in Recurrent FSGS. Poster Session: Bone and Mineral / Specific Diseases. American Transplant Congress, 2012, Boston
17. Mehta S, Gaston R, Julian B, Mannon R, Kumar V. Depletional (DI) vs. Non-Depletional (NDI) Induction Therapy at Time of Kidney Transplantation (txp) in Patients on Immunosuppression for a Functional Non-Renal Solid-Organ Allograft. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL. Poster Session: Kidney Immunosuppression: Induction Therapy. World Transplant Congress 2011
18. Kumar V, Hauptfeld-Dolejsek V, Senkbeil R, Mannon R, Gaston R, Bynon S, Dubay D. Outcomes in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplants in the Setting of a Positive Crossmatch. University of Alabama at Birmingham. Poster Session: Liver: Immunosuppression Acute / Chronic Rejection. World Transplant Congress 2011
19. Kumar V. Early Decline Post Renal Transplant of Low Titer Donor Specific Anti HAL Antibodies with Negative T and B cell Flow Crossmatch Pre-Transplant. Poster. American Transplant Congress, 2010, San Diego
20. Kumar V. Early Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection Has Lower Graft Loss Compared to Late Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection in a Non Desensitized T and B Flow Cross Match Negative Renal Transplant Population. Poster. American Transplant Congress, 2010, San Diego
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21. Anil Chandraker, S. A. De Serres, B. Mfarrej, I. Gueleria, C. Dyer, N. Najafian, Y. Morrison, N. Bridges, J. Liu, E. Norris, W. Bennett, A. B. Cosimi, J. Friedwald, A. O. Gaber, N. Goes, B. Kaplan, V. Kumar, A. Olayei, D. Norman, M. Pavlakis, F. Weng, P. West, F. Vincenti, W. E. Harmon, M. H. Sayegh. Development of De Novo Anti-HLA Antibodies after Transplantation Is Associated with Evidence of Systemic Activation of the Immune System: Interim Report of the NIH CTOT-2 CTOT02 Study Group. American Society of Nephrology, 2009, San Diego
22. Kumar V, Khamash H, Julian B, Prendergast M, Kew C, Hauptfeld V, Gaston R. Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Outcomes at a Single Center. American Transplant Congress, 2009, Boston
23. Jain G, Julian B, Kumar V. Diabetic Nephropathy in Renal Allografts: A Single-Center Experience. American Transplant Congress, 2009, Boston
24. Kelpke S, Hanaway M, Deierhoi M, Gaston R, Kew C, Julian B, Kumar V, Khamash H, Prendergast M, Young C. A Ten Year Review of Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Allografts in African Americans (AA) at a Single Center. American Transplant Congress, 2009, Boston
25. A. Chandraker, B. Mfarrej, S. De Serres, I. Guleria, C. Dyer, N. Najafian, Y. Morrison, N. Bridges, D. Ikle, W. Bennett, A. B. Cosimi, J. Friedewald, A. O. Gaber, N. Goes, B. Kaplan, V. Kumar, D. Norman, A. Olyaei, M. Pavlakis, F. Weng, P. West, F. Vincenti, M. H. Sayegh. Evidence for Immune Activation in Kidney Transplant Recipients Who Develop Anti-HLA Antibodies: Interim Report of CTOT-02. American Transplant Congress, 2009, Boston
26. Khamash H, Gaston R, Julian B, Kew C, Kumar V, Prendergast M, Deierhoi M, Young C, Goodman J, Cook W, Curtis J, Mannon R, Hanaway M. Alemtuzumab Induction with Early Steroid Withdrawal: Assessment of Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation at a Single Center. American Transplant Congress, 2009, Boston.
27. Jain G, Julian BJ, Kumar V. Recurrence of Diabetic Nephropathy in Renal Allografts: A single-center experience. American Transplant Congress, 2009, Boston
28. Kumar V. Preformed Anti-HLA Antibodies (non donor specific) Influence the Time Course of Acute AMR in Renal Transplant Patients. Poster Presentation AST Winter Symposium, 2009 Banff
29. Kumar V, Brockenbrough AT, Gaston RS, Curtis JJ, Kew, CE. Long Term Follow Up of African American Living Kidney Donors. Presented at American Transplant Congress 2008, Toronto, Canada
30. Khamash H, Hanaway M, Julian B, Kew C, Kumar V, Prendergast M, Deierhoi M, Young C, Goodman J, Mannon R, Curtis J, Gaston R. Similar rejection patterns and outcomes with Alemtuzumab (CAM) and rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin (rATG) indication in adult kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). Poster Presentation American Transplant Congress, 2008
31. Kumar V, Brockenbrough AT, Gaston RS, Curtis JJ, Kew CE. Long Term Follow up of African American Kidney Donors. Transplant Summit Conference 2007, Chicago
32. Kumar V, Pippin JB, Stein A, Jablonski P, Davis C, Shankland SJ. The Contribution of the Podocyte to Chronic Allograft Nephropathy. Medicine-Nephrology, University of Washington Seattle, WA. Transplantation and Renal Research Group, Central & Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Praharan, Victoria, Australia. American Society of Nephrology National/International Meeting, 2006, San Diego, CA
33. Kumar V, Pippin JB, Logar CM, Shankland SJ. Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) is Protective against Podocyte Injury. Medicine/Division of Nephrology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA. American Society of Nephrology National-International Meeting, 2006, San Diego, CA
34. Kumar V, Diehl AK, Gateley A., Appleby JL, O’Keefe ME. Can the resident selection process affect the balance of general internists and sub specialists? The Resident
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Careers Cohort Study. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Poster Presentation, Department of Medicine Research Day, UTHSCSA, 2004
35. Kumar V, Diehl AK, Gateley A, Appleby JL, O'Keefe ME. Training international medical graduates will not increase the supply of practicing general internists: The Resident Careers Cohort Study. Poster presentation, 27th National meeting, SGIM, 2004, Chicago, IL
ORAL SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS:1. ASN 2017 Patient survival post-transplant malignancy and cardiovascular disease2. ASN 2015, 2016, 2017 Precourse, Women and Children in Kidney transplantation3. WTC 2014 Clinico pathologic correlation4. V. Kumar, V. Hauptfeld-Dolejsek, A. Abdelkader, J. Goodman, J. Locke, R. Gaston.
Preexisting Donor Specific Antibody (DSA) with a Negative Flow Crossmatch (FCXM) Should Not Preclude Kidney Transplantation. Oral presentation ATC 2013 May, Seattle
5. Vineeta Kumar, M.D. Advanced HLA Technical Workshop and Clinical Histocompatibility Workshop. One Lambda Meeting March 2012
6. Vineeta Kumar, M.D., Robert S. Gaston, M.D Impact of Time from Transplant and Renal Function at Diagnosis of Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection (AMR) on Long term Outcomes in Patients Treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama. Univ of MN Transplant Immunosuppression 2011
7. Hauptfeld-Dolejsek V, Tao Z, Kumar V, Senkbeil R. Antigen as a Virtual Crossmatch. DSA Positive FCXM Negative. Case Studies. One Lambda Meeting, 2010
8. Kumar V, Diehl AK, Gateley A, Appleby JL, O'Keefe ME. Training international medical graduates will not increase the supply of practicing general internists: The Resident Careers Cohort Study. Oral Plenary Session, Southern Regional meeting, SGIM, New Orleans, LA, February 14, 2004
9. Kumar V, Dieh AK, Gateley A, Appleby JL, O’Keefe ME. Predictors of Final Career Choice by Internal Medicine Residents: The Role of Demographic Factors and Personality Attributes. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Republic of Texas meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine October 18, 2003
10. Kumar V, Diehl AK , Gateley A, Appleby JL, O’Keefe ME Demographic factors, Personality attributes and Resident final career choice.. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Division of General Medicine Research Conference, September 3, 2003
WORKSHOPS PRESENTER OR INVITED SESSION MODERATOR:
2019 Chair and session Moderator, Kidney Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection, Mid-Day Symposium Chair, ATC 2019
2019 Moderator, Debate APoL1 Genotyping in Living Kidney Donors, ATC 2019
2012 – Pres Session Moderator, American Society of Transplant, Chronic Allograft Injury
05/2012 A Difficult Case of Antibody Mediated Rejection, Sunrise SymposiumPresentation at the first ATC Clinico-pathologic Correlation Conference, Boston 2012
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09/2011 Alabama Kidney Foundation talks at Huntsville and Mobile September11th
2011, Alabama2011 Anesthesia Grand Rounds – Care of the renal transplant patient08/2011 UAB Nursing CME August 25, 2011 “Care of the renal transplant2009- Present Invited Schwartz Rounds Moderator Bi monthly, UAB multidisciplinary
Seminar06/01/2008 Session Moderator, American Transplant Congress Scientific Session:
Kidney – Acute Rejection: Markers and Outcomes. 11/2010 ASN Renal Week Faculty, Denver 2010: Session Moderator. Well
Transplant Clinic: More than a vital signs and a Creatinine check.06/03/2009 ATC Sunrise Symposium Moderator: Options for Sensitized Recipients
of Kidney Transplants 05/03/2002 Badgett R, Basteh S, O’Keefe ME, Kumar V, Mortensen E. Teaching
Informatics to Enhance Evidence-Based Medicine, Co-presenter National meeting Society of General Internal Medicine, Atlanta, GA
02/14/2004 Session Moderator, Clinical Vignettes, Southern Regional Meeting 02/21/2003 Kumar V, Garcia S.E. Intern Learning Groups: Working Productively
With Interns. Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
02/07/2003 Kumar V, Hendricson. W. H, Ph.D. Dealing with Problem Residents, Master Teaching Course – Scott & White Hospital and Texas A & M Medical School Temple, Texas, Faculty Development Course
10/05/2002 Kumar V, Ross C. Working Productively With Problem Residents, Regional Academic Health Center Medical and Dental Staff and Valley Baptist Medical Center, Harlingen, Texas, Faculty Development Retreat.
02/23/2002 O’Keefe ME, Kumar V. Busy Teacher, Struggling Resident: How to Find and Teach the Missing Skill? Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
02/22/2002 O'Rorke JE, Kumar V, Rekus B. Co-presenters. Clinical Approach to the Painful Shoulder. Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
10/06/2001 Badgett R, Kumar V. Co-presenter. Teaching Informatics to Enhance Evidence-Based Medicine. Society of General Internal Medicine, Texas Chapter, Austin.
03/02/2001 Conde M, O’ Keefe ME, O’Rorke JE, Griffin J, Kumar V. Update in Peri-operative Medicine for the Medical Consultant – Peri-operative B Blocker use. Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
04/21/2004 Hendricson Bill Ph.D., Kumar V. Working productively with problem residents. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Education, Texas Professional Development series. Overall rating of 4.85/5 – the highest evaluation for the past 5 years
03/21/2004 Kumar, V. Intern Learning Groups: General Internal Medicine Faculty Development Conference
07/09/2003 Kumar V. How to Mentor Resident with Problems? Workshop for UTHSCSA Internal Medicine Chief Residents
10/2002 O’Rorke J.E. Kumar V. Clinical Approach to the Painful Shoulder, Faculty Development, Division of General Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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06/2000, 06/2002 Kumar V. Organized Bush Fire Survival Situation –Teaching interns graduating to second year residency, Team leadership and Managements skills at the Intern to Resident retreat, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Guadeloupe River Ranch
ORAL or POSTER PRESENTATIONS (as Faculty Mentor to Residents) UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN SAN ANTONIO
05/25/2004 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty at Department of Medicine Research Day, UTHSCSA with 1st year Medicine intern, Dr. Tristan Dow. TB or not? Adrenal insufficiency as the first manifestation of occult malignancy
05/25/2004 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty at Department of Medicine Research Day, UTHSCSA with 3rd year Medicine resident, Dr. David Marks. Glycophosphatase Herbicide Intoxication
05/19/2004 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty at South Texas ACP Conference, San Antonio, and poster finalist with 1st year Medicine intern, Dr. Tristan Dow. TB or not? Adrenal insufficiency as the first manifestation of occult malignancy
05/19/2004 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty for a Poster Presentation at South Texas ACP Conference, San Antonio with 3rd year Medicine resident, Dr. David Marks. Glycophosphatase Herbicide Intoxication
02/14/2004 Tristan Dow, M.D., Kumar V. Oral Presentation, Clinical Vignette: The pieces of this puzzle do not fit”, Southern Regional Meeting, SGIM.
02/13/2004 David Marks, M.D., Kumar V. Poster presentation, Clinical Vignette: Glycophosphatase Herbicide Intoxication, Southern Regional Meeting, SGIM:
12/08/2003 Matt Eidem M.D., Abdul Abdulatiff, M.D., Tess Jones, Ph.D., Kumar V. Morbidity and Mortality Conference: Informed Consent.
11/08/2003 Kumar V. Medical Abbreviations – Cracking the code. Oral Presentation, Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Regional Meeting – “Medicine Uncut” 2003 3:30-4:30pm, San Antonio, TX.
05/21/2002 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty for Department of Medicine Research Day, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Clinical Vignette Poster Presentation with 3rd year resident, Dr. Alena Velasco. Myxoma, an Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease.
05/21/2002 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty for Department of Medicine Research Day, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Clinical Vignette Poster Presentation with 3rd year resident, Dr. Amy Mason. Quinine Induced Hepatitis.
05/24/2002 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty for a Poster Presentation at South Texas ACP Conference, San Antonio with 3rd year Medicine resident, Dr. Alena Velasco. Myxoma, an Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease.
05/24/2002 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty for a Poster Presentation at South Texas ACP Conference, San Antonio with 3rd year Medicine resident, Dr. Amy Mason. Quinine Induced Hepatitis.
05/2001 Kumar V Case Presentation at Nephrology Case Conference: Hyperosmolar Non Ketotic State, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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05/2001 Kumar V. Co-Authored as Faculty for a Poster Presentation at South Texas ACP Conference, San Antonio with 2nd year Medicine resident,Dr. Aaron Owens. LCCD: A Cruel Yet Kind Twist of Fate.
03/03/2001 Kumar V, Conde M. Oral Presentation, Clinical Vignette: A Deceiving Consult for Hypertension Control. Southern SGIM, New Orleans.
05/1998 Kumar V, Guise T. Poster Presentation at South Texas ACP Conference: Bones, Stones, and Abdominal Groans: Uncommon Presentation of a common disorder, San Antonio.
INVITED LECTURES (LOCAL/REGIONAL):The University of Alabama at Birmingham
2015- Pres Intro to HLA, Anesthesia, Pediatrics, HLA lab2014- Pres Intro to HLA, Board review, Transplant renal pathology2013- Pres Intro to HLA, Anesthesia, Grand Rounds04/2012-16 UAB Internal Medicine Noon Conference, Immunosuppression and
renal transplant01/2012 UAB Internal Medicine Noon Conference, Kidney in Pregnancy12/01/2011-16 UAB Nephrology Fellow Noon Conference, Transplant Board Review10/15/2011 UAB Internal Medicine Noon Conference, the Nephritic and Nephrotic
Syndromes2007- Pres UAB Nephrology Fellow Noon Conference, HLA Typing and Renal
Transplantation I and II08/30/2011 UAB Kidney and Heart Transplant Coordinators, Role of
Histocompatibility in Kidney Transplantation04/20/2011 Anesthesiology Multi-Disciplinary Critical Care Conference: Acute Care
of the Hospitalized Kidney Transplant Patient2007 -- Pres Transplant Journal Club, Division of Nephrology11/22/2010 Transplant Journal Club, Division of Nephrology11/05/2010 UAB: Problem Session: Transplant Nephrology10/15/2010 Internal Medicine Residency Program, UAB: Glomerular Disease09/23/2010 HLA Typing and Renal Transplantation I, Fellow Noon Conference,
Division of Nephrology 08/05/2010 Heart Transplant Pathology Meeting, UAB: Baseline Donor-Specific
Antibody Levels and Outcomes in Positive Crossmatch Kidney Transplantation
06/04/2010 Renal Transplantation, Internal Medicine Residency Noon Conference, UAB: Kidney and Pregnancy
11/16/2009 The Nephritic and Nephrotic Syndromes. Internal Medicine Resident Noon Conference
06/15/2009 Immunosuppressive Basics and Renal Transplantation, Internal Medicine Residency Noon Conference5/21/09 Kidney in Pregnancy, MS1 Renal Module
05/15/2009 Transplant Board Review, Fellows Noon Conference, Division of Nephrology
11/19/2008 Transplant Journal Club, Quantitation of Alloantibody Concentration can predict Patient Sensitivity to Intravenous Immunoglobulins Desensitization Transplantation 2007 Kimball
07/02/2008 Nephrology Fellows Noon Conference, ATC 2008 Highlights06/23/2008 Histocompatibility and Basic Immunology 101 - Part III, Fellow Noon
Conference, Division of Nephrology05/07/2008 University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine; Curriculum
Pre-clerkship Phase – Renal Module, Kidney in Pregnancy
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04/02/2008 Transplant Journal Club, CMV prevention postrenal pancreas transplant
01/18/2008 Transplant Immunopathobiology 101 - Part II, Fellow Noon Conference, Division of Nephrology
01/18/2008 Cellular and Antibody Mediated Rejection, Fellows Noon Conference01/18/2008 Nephrology Fellows Noon Conference, Transplant Curriculum Lecture
Series, Transplant Immunopathobiology 101 – Part II12/14/2007 Nephrology Fellows Noon Conference, Tissue Typing and HLA 10112/12/2007 Tissue Typing and HLA 101 Part I, Fellow Noon Conference, Division
of Nephrology11/07/2007 Transplant Journal Club, the Medical Evaluation of Living Kidney
Donors: A Survey of US Transplant Centers. Mandelbrot, Pavlakis, Danovitch, etal AJT 2007 7:2333-2343
02/14/2007 Combined Renal/Liver Transplant Pediatric and Adult Morbidity and Mortality Conference
02/07/2007 HLA typing and Transplant Immunobiology: The Basics - Part I, Nephrology Division Conference
12/12/2006 Combined Renal/Liver Transplant Pediatric and Adult Morbidity and Mortality Conference, University of Alabama at Birmingham
11/02/2006 Scleroderma and Renal Disease, Nephrology Divisional Conference11/01/2006 Prophylactic Versus Preemptive Oral Valganciclovir for the
Management of Cytomegalovirus Infection in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients Brenan et al AJT 2006 University of Alabama, Birmingham, Transplant Surgery and Transplant Nephrology combined conference
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER (Seattle):06/10/2006 Mycophenolic Acid and the Podocyte05/04/2006 Basic science research in renal transplantation 02/10/2006 Role of the Podocyte in Renal Transplant12/02/2005 Transplant Glomerulopathy: Renal Pathology conference, University of
Washington, Seattle, Nephrology Divisional Grand Rounds09/28/2005 Journal Club, Cyclosporine in patient with Steroid resistant
membranous nephropathy – A randomized trial – Daniel Cattran – Kidney International, Vol 59, (2001) PP 1484-1490
09/19/2005 Post Infectious Glomerulonephritis: Renal Pathology Conference, University of Washington, Seattle Nephrology Divisional Grand Rounds
09/09/2005 Chronic Allograft Nephropathy. Grand Rounds – Nephrology Division, University of Washington, Seattle
08/03/2005 Tour of the nephron: Glomerulus Renal Physiology. Fellows Lecture Series, University of Washington, Seattle
08/24/2005 Journal Club, Late Renal Allograft Failure between 1990 and 1998 in pain: A changing scenario, Transplantation Vol 76, 1588-1594, No. 11 December 15, 2003, Daniel Seron et al.
04/21/2005 Division of Nephrology, University of Washington Journal Club:Therapy of Lupus Nephritis, Controlled trial of prednisone and Cytotoxic drugs, March 1986, vol 314, No.10
04/18/2005 Scleroderma Renal Crisis, Grand Rounds – Nephrology Division, University of Washington, Seattle
04/15/2005 Division of Nephrology, University of Washington Grand Rounds: Scleroderma Renal Disease
08/11/2005 Introduction to CAN and research proposal
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08/25/2005 Lab Journal Club: Beyond Operational Tolerance: Effect of Ischemic Injury on Development of Chronic Damage in Renal Grafts – Mark T. Coulson, Alicia N. Stein. Transplantation Vol. 80, No. 3 August 15 2005
11/12/2005 Lab Journal Club: Three- Dimensional Reconstruction of Glomeruli by Electron Microscopy Reveals a Distinct Restrictive Urinary Subpodocyte Space. Christopher R. Neal, J Am Soc Nephrol 16: 1223-1235, 2005. doi:10.1681/ASN.2004100822
12/2004 Division of Nephrology, University of Washington Journal Club: Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in the Losartan Intervention for End Point reduction in the Hypertension Study: a randomized trial against Atenolol
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER IN SAN ANTONIO03/19/2004 Hematuria, Morning Conference Internal Medicine House staff,
UTHSCSA2004-2002 Management of Congestive Heart Failure: Lecture to 3rd year medical
students on Ambulatory block rotation2004 - 2001 Osteoporosis, Lecture to 3rd year medical students on Ambulatory
block rotation, Women’s Health Clinic 2004 - 2001 Pap Smear Screening, Lecture to 3rd year medical students on
Ambulatory block rotation, Women’s Health Clinic12/05/2003 Syncope, Morning Conference Internal Medicine House staff,
UTHSCSA10/16/2003 Night Float Cross Cover issues, Morning Conference Internal Medicine
House staff, UTHSCSA07/31/2003 Acute Mental Status Changes – Internal Medicine House staff, Acute
Emergency Medicine Series, UTHSCSA07/24/2003 Osteoporosis screening and management in the outpatient, primary
care block lecture2003-2001 Urinary Incontinence, Lecture to 3rd year medical students on
Ambulatory block rotation, Women’s Health Clinic02/2002 & 01/2002 Urinary Tract Infections: Lecture to 3rd year medical students on
Ambulatory block rotation 05/27/2001 Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests: Lecture to 3rd year medical
students on Inpatient Medicine service03/15/2001 An Approach to Acid-Base Disorders: Lecture to 3rd year medical
students on Inpatient Medicine service
MISCELANEOUS:REVIEWER:
2017 – Present KSAP Reviewer, American Society of Nephrology2008 - Present Abstract Reviewer, American Transplant Congress 2007 - Present Relevance Reviewer – Nephrology Questions, American Board of
Internal Medicine (ABIM), Beta Tester07/2000 – 06/2004 Member, Clinical Competency Committee (RRC), University of Texas
health Science Center at San Antonio
CONTINUING EDUCATION:2013- Pres Annual Cutting Edge in Transplantation, AST Winter Meeting2008- Present Annual American Transplant Congress meeting2006- Present Annual Kidney Week, American Society of Nephrology
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12/2007 Transplantation Innovations and Management Strategies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ross Bridge Resort, Hoover, AL
11/2006 Annual American Society of Nephrology meeting, San Diego10/2006 Peritoneal Dialysis University, University of Alabama at Birmingham02/2006 Peritoneal Dialysis academy, San Francisco11/2005 Annual American Society of Nephrology meeting, Philadelphia 02/2005, 03/2006 Regional American Society of Nephrology meeting, Seattle, WA2004 - 2006 Quarterly Nephrology Day Presentations2003 - 2001 Southern SGIM10/2002 Attended Competency Based Evaluation workshop at UTHSCSA,
Department of Education06/2002 Certified in the Reader Friendly Writer Course organized by the Office
of Educational Resources, Department of Education, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
10/2001 - 12/2001 Certified in the University of Texas Teaching Excellence Course organized by the Office of Educational Resources, Department of Education, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
05/2001, 05/2002 National SGIM10/2001 SGIM, Texas Chapter04/2000 APDIM, Chief Residents Workshop04/2000 National ACP
OTHER:10/29/2005 Qwest: Organized and ran an educational booth on Doctor Patient
Communication at the North West Kidney Center Annual Expo 06/2006 Table Captain, Breakfast of Hope North West Kidney Center
Fundraiser, Non for Profit Organization for Kidney Dialysis in the Pacific Northwest
05/2006 Volunteer - Health Screening Counselor, African American Kidney Health Fair Conference
05/19/2003 Career Day John Glenn Elementary School, spoke to fourth and fifth graders regarding what it is to be a physician
07/2002 - 06/2003 Mentor, John Glenn Elementary School, Middle School child, San Antonio, Texas
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