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Manjula Kurella Tamura, MD, MPH Acting Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine Dr. Manjula Kurella-Tamura is an assistant professor in the Nephrology Division at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a co-investigator in the Frequent Hemodialysis Network, an NIH-funded, randomized trial of short-daily or long-nocturnal dialysis versus conventional thrice weekly dialysis. Dr. Kurella-Tamura’s research focuses on chronic kidney disease in the elderly and, in particular, on the determinants of cognitive impairment in elderly persons with end-stage renal disease. Dr. Kurella-Tamura plans to study risk factors for cognitive impairment and to evaluate how changes in the dialysis prescription affect cognitive function in elderly patients with end-stage renal disease.   Dr. Kurella-Tamura is a graduate of Albany Medical College. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center and a fellowship in nephrology at the University of California, San Francisco. She also earned a Master’s in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Mechanisms of Cognitive Impairment in Chronic Kidney Disease