Nephrology

Welcome to the William B. Schwartz

Division of Nephrology

The William B. Schwartz Division of Nephrology, located at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA, has a long-standing tradition of excellence and commitment to patient care, education, research and public policy. Specializing in the study, diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease and high blood pressure, the Nephrology Division can meet your needs whether you are a patient, referring physician, a trainee, or a research partner.

Patient Care

Caring for patients with kidney disease and kidney-related diagnosis is the core of what we do. All patients can expect the highest in personal, compassionate, and comprehensive care. 

• Multidisciplinary team members are expert in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic kidney diseases and high blood pressure.
• We work with patients to help them choose and carry out appropriate treatment options.
• Patients have access to a complete array of treatments, including medical and surgical management of specific causes of kidney diseases, as well as dialysis and kidney transplantation.
• We provide specialty clinics for polycystic kidney disease and kidney transplantation.

Education and Training

The Division of Nephrology offers an award-winning, dynamic and unparalled education and training experience. 

• Our clinical training program is ACGME-accredited.
• We offer an outpatient care experience unlike any other.
• Our research budget includes more than $1.5 million for research training-related activities to help our fellows become independently funded, academic researchers. 
• We provide structured, mentored research training as well as MS or PhD degrees in clinical research through an institutional training grant funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Research

We are dedicated to improving the lives of patients through clinical research by conducting relevant, state of the art clinical research on kidney disease and its manifestations. Our aims are to eradicate individual kidney diseases where possible, identify effective treatments and reduce the burden of kidney disease on society.

• Our annual research budget is over $4 million.
• The Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
• Division members’ research interests span translational research, clinical science and patient-reported outcomes.
• We conduct ongoing clinical trials for a variety of kidney diseases.

• The results of our research efforts are applicable to patient care and to policy making.

Public Policy

Members of the Division interact with many partners in government, industry, and not-for-profit non-governmental organizations. We collaborate extensively with external partners and the work we do influences public policy about kidney disease on a large scale.

• Our public policy making efforts are based on research results.
• We thoughtfully avoid assumptions and do not make conclusions without evidence to support them.

Thank you for visiting our website. 

Sincerely,

Andrew S. Levey, MD

Chief, William B. Schwartz Division of Nephrology
Tufts Medical Center
Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine