Thomas A Golper
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville
United States
Biography
Dr. Golper has been practicing nephrology since 1978, and since 1999 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His career has been committed to the care of dialysis patients and the study of dialysis sciences. He is the author of 250 publications and has trained many other academic nephrologists. He is a Dialysis Editor for Up To Date.He has held positions on the Board of Directors of the RPA and AAKP, served as the PD Adequacy Work Group Chair for the first two versions of KDOQI, and remains on the Work Group. He led the Network 9 Peritonitis and Catheter Survival Study and has served on the ISPD Ad Hoc Committee for Peritonitis for many iterations of its guidelines. His interests remain in the field of dialysis and the administrative aspects of nephrology practice.
Research Interest
Nephrology and Hypertension