Hennepin Healthcare
Division of Nephrology & Chronic Disease Research Group
Hennepin Healthcare & the Chronic Disease Research
Group: A Patient-focused Approach to Clinical Care &
Research
The Hennepin Healthcare nephrology division has conducted cutting edge patient care and has spearheaded state-of-the-art fellow education programming for over three decades. Patients with acute and chronic renal diseases are cared for in specialty clinics such as a post-kidney transplant clinic, the kidney transplant evaluation clinic, the general nephrology clinic, the mineral metabolism clinic, and the home hemodialysis and outpatient peritoneal dialysis clinics. The Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG), formed by Hennepin Healthcare nephrologists to investigate public health issues related to chronic illnesses and treatment, enriches the training experience by giving fellows access to skilled research mentors. Under a multimillion-dollar contract with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the research group serves as the Coordinating Center and the Cardiovascular Disease Special Studies Center for the United States Renal Data System (USRDS). Currently, the research group also operates the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.
(SRTR), which maintains the database for all solid organ transplant statistics and information in the U.S. CDRG's team is comprised of biostatisticians, epidemiologists, physician investigators, medical writers, and many others. Employing vast expertise in health care research, they conduct observational, clinical, and epidemiological studies into chronic diseases and examine long- and short-term patient outcomes.