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Daniel C Brennan MD, Professor of Medicine, Director Transplant Nephrology 
Brent W. Miller, MD, associate professor of medicine 
Georges Saab, MD, assistant professor of medicine 
Christina Klein, MD, assistant professor of medicine
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KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION AND TRANSPLANT NEPHROLOGY AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Washington University - Barnes-Jewish Hospital has one of the largest and most experienced kidney transplant teams in the USA. More than one-half of all kidney transplants performed in the State of Missouri are done here. The first procedure was performed in 1963 and since that time
there have been more than 2,700 transplants. Approximately 170 were performed in 2008. Washington University Barnes-Jewish Hospital has one of lowest rejection rates in the world. Washington University was a pioneer in living-donor kidney transplants and is a pioneer in mini-nephrectomy (minimally invasive donor nephrectomy). About 40 percent of all kidney transplants performed by the Washington University physicians at Barnes-Jewish Hospital use living donors. Nearly 760 people – among the highest volume in the USA – have received the gift of life from a living donor - a traditional or extended family member or an individual related by marriage or adoption.
Dr. Daniel Brennan was recruited to be Washington University's first Director of Transplant Nephrology in 1993. Dr. Brennan is one of the preeminent transplant nephrologists in the USA. He is an Established Investigator of the AHA, and the only individual to be recognized as recipient of both the Young Investigator Award (2003) and the Clinical Investigator Award (2004) from the American Transplantation Society. Dr. Brennan has published seminal work relating to the diagnosis and treatment viral infections that complicate organ transplantation in humans; induction therapy for kidney transplantation; and outcomes and pharmacoeconomics for kidney transplantation. Full-time transplant nephrologists on Dr. Brennan's staff include Drs. Brent Miller, Georges Saab and Christina Klein. Outpatient staff include Drs. George Jarad, Andrew Siedlecki and Nadine Tanenbaum. A full complement and broad spectrum of activities relating to clinical and research training in transplant nephrology is available at Washington University.
Renal Division
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