Description
The Division of Nephrology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine has a newly established Renal Genetics Fellowship Program that accepted its first fellow on July 1, 2025. This one-year advanced fellowship program seeks to develop the first generation of fellowship trained genetic nephrologists.
The Renal Genetics Fellowship Program (https://internalmedicine.medicine.uiowa.edu/renal-genetics-fellowship) at Iowa has a multidisciplinary focus with faculty drawn from the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Internal Medicine, the Divisions of Pediatric Nephrology and Medical Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Pediatrics, and the Iowa Institute of Human Genetics. The University of Iowa has a well-established Renal Genetics Clinic with a dedicated genetic counselor specializing in nephrology, a PKD center of excellence, an aHUS center of excellence and is a designated NORD Rare Disease Center of Excellence.
Each Renal Genetics Fellowship is for one year. Fellowship trainees will rotate through the genetics-focused clinics within the Division of Nephrology, the Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Division of Genetics including the Renal Genetics Clinic, the Polycystic Kidney Disease clinic, the multidisciplinary Kidney Stone Clinic and the Complement and Rare Kidney Disease clinic.
The University of Iowa through its Human Genetics (IIHG) and the Molecular Otorhinolaryngology and Renal Labs (MORL) offer comprehensive and customized renal gene panels and complement function testing which will provide an educational venue for fellowship trainees to evaluated genetic variants. At the end of the training period in genetics, the graduating renal genetics fellow is expected to have an excellent foundation in the principles of clinical genetics, the breadth and scope of genetic testing options in nephrology, the interpretation of genetic variants in the context of the clinical phenotype, and a genotype-focused approach to patient management.
Candidates for the Renal Genetics Fellowship should have completed a US-based general nephrology and pediatric nephrology fellowship program. Candidates will be evaluated based on their academic accomplishments and their commitment to renal genetics.
Interested candidates should contact:
Christie P. Thomas, MD
Director, Renal Genetics Fellowship
Director, Renal Genetics Clinic
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Iowa Health Care
