Division of Nephrology

			SPOTLIGHT IN THE NEWS   Fifty-one years after the first successful kidney transplant, the operation has gone from being a medical miracle to almost routine. Perhaps no transplant program highlights that success as well as the one at the Stanford University Medical Center. For the fourth consecutive year, the Stanford adult kidney transplant program had the best one-year survival rate—about 98 percent. That's out of a nationwide field of 246 centers evaluated in the latest report from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients . John Scandling, MD, professor of medicine (nephrology) and medical director of the Stanford kidney transplant program, spoke with Medical Center Report managing editor Jonathan Rabinovitz about the improved outcome in kidney transplants and the effort to achieve better long-term success. Read the Full Story

The Division of Nephrology was founded in 1971 by Drs. Roy Maffly and Rex Jamison, who served as it’s Co-Chiefs of the Division. In 1980, Dr. Jamison became Chief and In 1987, Dr. Bryan Myers succeeded him. In 2003 Dr. Timothy W. Meyer succeeded Dr. Myers. The faculty of the Division are located in each of the 3 teaching hospitals. Stanford Hospital and Clinics(SHC) The location of the medical center on university land has facilitated interaction among the undergraduate and graduate school faculties. This has had a catalytic effect on the research and teaching enterprise, which in turn has been translated by the clinical faculty from the laboratory bench to the hospital bedside.

Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care Systems (VAPAHCS). Since 1964, the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) has been a principal teaching hospital affiliated with Stanford. It is located adjacent to the Stanford campus. Its physicians are full time Stanford faculty. Two other hospitals, the Veterans affairs Medical Center in Livermore, about 50 miles from Stanford, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Menlo Park about 5 miles away, are part of VAPAHCS. In 1999, the VAPAHCS moved into a new state-of-the art medical facility.

The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center , the county hospital of Santa Clara County , is located in San Jose , 20 miles south of Stanford. It is housed in a new facility just opened this year. A new building to house the expanding Renal Center was dedicated in 1999.