Phuong-Thu Pham
University of California, USA
Biography
Phuong-Thu Pham is Professor of Medicine and Director of Outpatient Services of the Kidney Transplant Program at UCLA Medical Center. Her major areas of interest and research include recurrence of glomerular diseases following primary kidney transplantation, new onset diabetes after transplantation, BK virus screening and management after kidney transplantation, the link between hypomagnesemia and renal function decline in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 as well as in recipients of kidney transplant, and acute and chronic kidney injury following liver transplantation. Her interests in these topics have resulted in publications in well-known Nephrology textbooks and journals as well as invitations to speak at both national and international meetings. She has written over thirty book chapters for major Nephrology and solid organ transplantation textbooks including Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, Textbook of Organ Transplantation, Transplantation of the Liver, Pancreas, islet, and stem cell transplantation for diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease: Dialysis and Transplantation, and Handbook of Kidney Transplantation. She has also served as moderator for transplant-related conferences at the American Society of Nephrology and World Congress of Nephrology, editorial board member for the Case Reports in Nephrology and Transplantation Technologies and Research journals, and member of the organizing committee for the International Conference on Nephrology and Therapeutics.