Jonathan Himmelfarb

Nephrology, Maine Medical Center, United States of America

Jonathan Himmelfarb

Academic positions:
- Department of Medicine
- Director, Division of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation
- Director, Clinical and Translational Research
- Associate Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine
- Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Vermont College of Medicine

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr Himmelfarb's interests include
- Pathophysiology of the disease process that links uremia, inflammation, and malnutrition with cardiovascular complications in uremic patients
- Oxidative stress and the pro-atherogenic milieu of uremia;
- The effects of antioxidant therapy on inflammatory biomarkers;
- Cytokine production in acute renal failure; renal replacement therapy, malnutrition and adverse cardiovascular outcomes in uremic patients;
- Anti-inflammatory and antioxidative effects of tocopherols in hemodialysis patients;
- Hemodialysis graft thrombosis; complement and granulocyte activation during hemodialysis;
- Biocompatible dialysis membranes in acute renal failure

Any other information:
Dr Himmelfarb is Chairman of the New England Organ Bank Board of Trustees, on the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff at Maine Medical Center and serves on a number of other committees including the External Review Committee of the KEEP Program of the National Kidney Foundation, and the Dialysis Access Consortium at the National Institutes of Health.

He serves on editorial boards including Kidney International, Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and American Board of Internal Medicine - Nephrology.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Nephrology > Dialysis & Renal Transplantation (since 16 November 2005)

Jonathan Himmelfarb is a Section Head for Dialysis & Renal Transplantation, part of the NEPHROLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

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