Dartmouth Events

Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, August 26, 2016

Anton C. Schoolwerth, MD, MSHA

Co-Sponsored by the Section of Nephrology and the Department of Medicine

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1.Understand risk factors for and identification of patients with CKD

2.Review management of co-morbidities of CKD

3.Understand the role of multidisciplinary CKD clinics in co-management of CKD

Anton C. Schoolwerth, MD, MSHA, is Professor of Medicine and physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and Nephrology training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He has served as the founding Chief, Renal and Electrolyte Division, Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine in Hershey, PA, and as Chairman, Division of Nephrology and Vice-Chairman, Department of Medicine, at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, VA.  At VCU, he received a Master of Science in Health Administration degree.

Dr. Schoolwerth has served in various positions with the National Kidney Foundation, including as a member of the Advisory Board on Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI), a member of the National Medical Advisory Board, as Chairman of the K/DOQI Kidney Learning System, as Editor-in-Chief, Best Practices Newsletter, and as President, National Kidney Foundation of the Virginias. He has served as a member and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease for the American Heart Association, and on the ASN Training Program Directors’ Executive Committee for the American Society of Nephrology (ASN). He has been a member of General Medicine B Study Section, as well as the Professional Workgroup, National Kidney Disease Education Program for the National Institutes of Health. He has served as a renal member of the National Merit Review Board for the Veteran’s Administration. In addition, he has served at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as member of the Kidney Disease Workgroup on Public Health Strategies on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and as a member of the Committee on the Economic Impact of CKD in the U.S., both in the Division of Diabetes Translation.  Dr. Schoolwerth has served on numerous editorial boards and has published over 140 articles and book chapters in medical literature.

Dr. Schoolwerth reported no conflicts of interest.

Please join the Department of Medicine in welcoming Dr. Anton Schoolwerth to Medicine Grand Rounds.

If you are unable to attend and would like to either view Grand Rounds live on your computer or if you would like to view it another time, please use this link.

http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education programs for physicians. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.