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Winners of research fellowships from the AKF announced
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Olivia Alison Potok, MD, a research fellow in nephrology at of the University of California, San Diego, and Pablo Garcia, MD, a research fellow in nephrology at Stanford University, have each been awarded research fellowships by the American Kidney Fund, marking the 30th year of its Clinical Scientist in Nephrology Program.
“The research that Potok and Garcia will conduct promises to produce important insights with practical applications in the clinical setting,” LaVarne A. Burton, AKF president and CEO, said in a press release from the AKF. “Over the past 30 years, the American Kidney Fund has granted research fellowships to 43 brilliant young nephrologists with one overarching goal: improving the care and treatment of patients with kidney disease. These nephrologists have, in turn, gone on to become leaders in the field and mentors to new generations of scientists studying kidney disease.”
Potok began her fellowship with the UCSD Division of Nephrology-Hypertension in July 2016. She completed her medical school training in France at Université Paris V René Descartes and a family medicine residency at Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg. According to the release, her research will focus on how two common markers used to estimate kidney function relate to aging and body composition.
Garcia is a first-year nephrology fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine Division of Nephrology. He received his medical degree from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and spent 2 years doing clinical research on CKD of unknown origin in Guatemala. Garcia’s research seeks to better understand the causes and prognosis of primary tubulointerstitial kidney disease, according to the release. Garcia plans to survey people in high-risk areas and study kidney biopsies from affected people as part of his research.
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