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Nephrologist
Vanessa Grubbs is a
nephrologist and a writer based in
Oakland, California . She is an associate professor at the
University of California, San Francisco . She works at
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital .
Early life and education
Grubbs was born in
Spring Lake, North Carolina .
[1] She earned a bachelor's degree at
Duke University .
[1] She remained at
Duke University School of Medicine for medical school.
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Research and career
Grubbs joined the
Alameda County Medical Center for her internal medicine residency.
[1] She completed a nephrology fellowship at
UCSF School of Medicine .
[1] In 2012 she was awarded a
National Institutes of Health K23 Career Development Award.
[2] She is a
Harold Amos
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Medical Faculty fellow.
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[4] She studied the dietary supplements of Americans that are potentially harmful in chronic kidney disease.
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[6] Her research focuses on the impact of
periodontal disease on kidney function.
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[8] She is a member of the
American Society of Nephrology and serves on the public policy board. She studied the outcomes of in-hospital palliative care consultations of patients with renal disease.
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Grubbs is a non-fiction writer and leads a workshop series for senior medical students in the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved.
[7] She appeared on the cover of the
American Society of Nephrology magazine Renal Life in 2018.
[10]
Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers
Grubbs published her first book with
Amistad in 2017.
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[13] The book describes how Grubbs met her husband, Robert Phillips, who had end-stage kidney disease.
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[14] Whilst searching for a kidney, Grubbs learned about the disparities in kidney allocation, where African American patients received only 1 in 5 of donated kidneys despite being 1 in 3 of transplant candidates.
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[16] The book documents other biases she has experienced as a woman of colour.
[17] She donated her own kidney before getting an engagement ring.
[18] It is also a collection of medical histories that covers the 400 years in the build-up of medical dialysis.
[11] The book was well received by
The New York Times and
Kirkus Reviews .
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References
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"Vanessa Grubbs | UCSF Profiles" . profiles.ucsf.edu . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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"Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results" . projectreporter.nih.gov . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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"History :: Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program" . www.amfdp.org . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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"The Lucky One" . RWJF . 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
^ Grubbs, Vanessa; Plantinga, Laura C.; Tuot, Delphine S.; Hedgeman, Elizabeth; Saran, Rajiv; Saydah, Sharon; Rolka, Deborah; Powe, Neil R. (May 2013).
"Americans' Use of Dietary Supplements That Are Potentially Harmful in CKD" . American Journal of Kidney Diseases . 61 (5): 739–747.
doi :
10.1053/j.ajkd.2012.12.018 .
ISSN
0272-6386 .
PMC
3628413 .
PMID
23415417 .
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"Diet and supplements: What's good and bad for kidney disease patients" . EurekAlert! . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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"Vanessa Grubbs, MD | Center for Vulnerable Populations" . cvp.ucsf.edu . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
^ Grubbs, Vanessa; Vittinghoff, Eric; Taylor, George; Kritz-Silverstein, Donna; Powe, Neil; Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten; Ishani, Areef; Cummings, Steven R. (2015-08-27).
"The association of periodontal disease with kidney function decline: a longitudinal retrospective analysis of the MrOS dental study" . Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation . 31 (3): 466–472.
doi :
10.1093/ndt/gfv312 .
ISSN
0931-0509 .
PMC
6071386 .
PMID
26320037 .
^ Grubbs, Vanessa; O’Riordan, David; Pantilat, Steve (2017-07-07).
"Characteristics and Outcomes of In-Hospital Palliative Care Consultation among Patients with Renal Disease Versus Other Serious Illnesses" . Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology . 12 (7): 1085–1089.
doi :
10.2215/CJN.12231116 .
ISSN
1555-9041 .
PMC
5498361 .
PMID
28655708 .
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"President's Message from aakpRENALIFE Jan/Feb 2018 (Posted Jan. 25, 2018) - AAKP" . AAKP . 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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"A compatible couple, in more ways than one" . Washington Post . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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"Vanessa Grubbs talks Interlaced Fingers on the Radio" . NephJC . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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"Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers - Vanessa Grubbs M.D. - E-book" . HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
^ Schoenberg, Nara.
"She gave her new love a kidney after dating for 9 months" . chicagotribune.com . Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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"UCSF Doctor Chronicles Her Journey from Kidney Donor to Kidney Doctor" . KQED . 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
^ Mr H Fox Channel 2 (2017-08-02),
The C.O.W.S. Dr. Vanessa Grubbs: The Harvest of Black Organs , retrieved 2018-09-04 {{
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b Pearson, Rachel (27 June 2017).
"Four Timely Memoirs from the Halls of Medicine" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2018-09-04 .
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"I married my kidney donor" . New York Post . 2017-06-14. Retrieved 2018-09-03 .
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HUNDREDS OF INTERLACED FINGERS by Vanessa Grubbs | Kirkus Reviews .
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