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The Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund was created in 2006. It was established by charitable gifts to Tufts Medical Center in honor of Dr. Harrington’s 70th birthday. Through his outstanding career, Dr. Harrington, Dean Emeritus at TUSM, has played a vital role in Tufts Medical Center’s Division of Nephrology. Widely known as a gifted nephrologist who has brought long-term hope to seriously-ill patients, his contributions to the field of Nephrology are many. In the early 1970s, Dr. Harrington developed the hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplant programs. Another of his most notable contributions to medical education and nephrology was his leadership of the “Nephrology Forum” in Kidney International, the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology. The Forum served as an invaluable resource of information and perspective for nephrologists around the globe for over 25 years.
The Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund supports a mission that Dr. Harrington holds near and dear – the continuous medical education of physicians, both young and more senior, on the delivery of the highest-quality care possible to patients suffering from kidney disease. Each year, the Harrington Fund supports a Visiting Professor in the Division of Nephrology to participate in the evaluation of the Division’s research training program and to speak at Grand Rounds in the Department of Medicine. In addition, the Harrington Fund can support other educational programs and initiatives within the Division, include innovative research projects that require seed funding and special patient care projects.
We are very grateful for the following Founding Gifts for the Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund:
Individual Donors
- Mr. Thomas F. and Mrs. Mary J. Shields
- Mr. and Mrs. John P. Brogan
- Drs. Nicolaos and Ourania Madias
Corporate/Institutional Donors
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
- Tufts University School of Medicine
- Merck & Co., Inc
Previous Visiting Professors:
- 1st Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds
January 2007
Nicolaos E. Madias, MD, Visiting Professor
Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Shared Primacy of Sodium and Potassium in the Pathogenesis of Hypertension
- 2nd Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds
March 2008
Sharon Moe, MD, Visiting Professor
University of Indiana
Chronic Kidney Disease: Looking for Bone in All the Wrong Places
- 3rd Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds
March 2009
Eberhard Ritz, MD, Visiting Professor
Department of Internal Medicine Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany
The World Kidney Day: The Kidney and Hypertension
- 4th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds
March 2010
Bertram Kasiske, MD, Visiting Professor
University of Michigan
Guidelines for the Management of Kidney Transplant Patients
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