About Our Transplant Fellowship
We offer a Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program certified by the American Society of Transplantation with a comprehensive, stimulating curriculum. The clinical component of our program will be tailored to the specific needs of the transplant fellow and will consist of:
Clinical Component
- Six months of inpatient service, following our kidney and pancreas transplant patients as a senior fellow.
- Weekly Transplant meeting and conference.
- 4-6 out-patient clinics per week in Transplant Nephrology. You will evaluate pre-and post-transplant patients (Kidney, Pancreas candidates), communicate with their referring nephrologists and present these patients at Kidney Intake meeting.
- Performing outpatient transplant biopsies.
- Observation of as many transplants as possible, joining surgeons on local retrievals of organs for both kidney and pancreas.
- One month spent in transplant pathology/radiology training.
- One month spent in the histocompatibility lab.
- Three months will be spent on a guided independent research project.
Didactic Component
- Guided independent study
- Weekly research conferences in transplant-related subjects by local and invited speakers.
- Attendance at American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting and the American Society of Transplantation Fellow's conference.
Faculty Leadership
Martha Pavlakis, MD, FASN, FAST
Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
Martha Pavlakis graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo before completing her residency at Tufts Medical Center. She did her renal and clinical investigation fellowships at Beth Israel Hospital before joining the faculty at Stanford Medical Center. She has been the medical director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at BIDMC since 1999. She takes the transplant education at BIDMC for renal fellows very seriously and provides both inpatient and clinic exposure throughout the year on both the inpatient Transplant (“Epstein-Trey”) service and outpatient clinics. She also has helped to lead the one-year AST transplant fellowship since 2001. She is active in the American Society of Transplantation where she serves as the co-chair of the Education Committee and active in a number of the Communities of Practice (COP) including the Women's Health COP, the Kidney Pancreas COP, the Live donor COP and the ID COP. She is also active in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and is currently the Region 1 (New England) representative to the UNOS kidney committee. She also chairs the Region 1 Renal Transplant Oversight Committee and is co-chair of the BIDMC Transplant Institute Quality Assurance and Process Improvement Committee.
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