Kidney Biomarkers: Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination

Dr. Ahuja spent five years doing research at the NIH in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, MD. Currently, she is Staff Physician at the Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital and a tenured Professor of Nephrology at the University of Texas Medical Center at San Antonio. She has served as the Principal Investigator for the NIH and VA funded research for over 20 years on projects involved in elucidating the role of chemokine receptors in dendritic cell biology and various animal models of human diseases including diabetic nephropathy, metabolic syndrome, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. She has served as a reviewer for several journals and is a member of American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Castillo completed his residency training in Pathology and received his M.D from the University of Texas McGovern Medical School. After completion of his blood bank fellowship from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX he joined the University of Texas McGovern Medical School department of pathology and laboratory medicine as assistant professor in 2015. Currently he is the associate director of pathology residency training and medical director of clinical laboratory at the Shriner’s Hospital for Children at Houston. He is well published and is a co-author of “Transfusion Medicine for Pathologists: A Comprehensive Review for Board Preparation, Certification, and Clinical Practice to be published by Elsevier.