Professional Bio
Edward D. Siew, MD, MSCI, is a Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension within the Department of Medicine.
He received his medical degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also completed fellowships in critical care medicine and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and nephrology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and is a graduate of its Master of Science in Clinical Investigation program.
Dr. Siew's research program is focused on improving the care and outcomes of patients who experience acute kidney injury (AKI) and has received funding through the National Institutes of Health, Veterans Affairs, and Department of Defense. Notable areas of investigation have included novel approaches to validating biological markers for the diagnosis and prognosis of AKI, new methods for phenotyping of AKI using electronic health records, understanding the genetic basis for susceptibility to AKI, clinical trials, and long-term outcomes and care gaps experienced by patients who survive an episode of AKI.
Publications
Education
MD - University of Chicago, 1999
Residency - Hospitalist Track - University of California, San Francisco, 2002
Fellowship - Critical Care - University of Pittsburgh, 2004
MSCI - Vanderbilt University, 2007
Fellowship - Nephrology - Vanderbilt University, 2008
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307