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.
Assistant Professor Vanessa Grubbs | |
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 Vanessa Grubbs speaks at Stanford Geriatric Education Center in 2015 | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Duke University Duke University School of Medicine |
| Occupation | Nephrologist |
| Years active | 2009 - present |
| Medical career | |
| Institutions | Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital |
| Research | Nephrology |
Early life and education
editGrubbs 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.[1]
Research and career
editGrubbs 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.[3][4] She studied the dietary supplements of Americans that are potentially harmful in chronic kidney disease.[5][6] Her research focuses on the impact of periodontal disease on kidney function.[7][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.[9]
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
editGrubbs published her first book with Amistad in 2017.[11][12][13] The book describes how Grubbs met her husband, Robert Phillips, who had end-stage kidney disease.[11][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.[15][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.[17][19]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Vanessa Grubbs | UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ generator, metatags. "Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results". projectreporter.nih.gov. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ "History :: Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program". www.amfdp.org. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Diet and supplements: What's good and bad for kidney disease patients". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "President's Message from aakpRENALIFE Jan/Feb 2018 (Posted Jan. 25, 2018) - AAKP". AAKP. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ a b c "A compatible couple, in more ways than one". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ "Vanessa Grubbs talks Interlaced Fingers on the Radio". NephJC. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Pearson, Rachel (27 June 2017). "Four Timely Memoirs from the Halls of Medicine". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
- ^ "I married my kidney donor". New York Post. 2017-06-14. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ HUNDREDS OF INTERLACED FINGERS by Vanessa Grubbs | Kirkus Reviews.