Miroslaw J. Smogorzewski, MD, PhD

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Specialties:

  • Nephrology

Title:

  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Associate Director, Fellowship Program at Division of Nephrology
  • Director of clinical nephrology teaching program for students, interns and residents, Keck School of Medicine

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Background:

Born and educated in his native Poland, Dr. Smogorzewski first had a fellowship in Renal Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital in London, UK before coming to southern California as a research fellow in Nephrology at the LAC+USC Medical Center. While in Poland, Dr. Smogorzewski was the Chief of the Dialysis Unit at the Medical Adademy in Warsaw and is currently the Associate Director at Keck’s Fellowship Program at the Division of Nephrology and the Director of clinical nephrology teaching for students, residents and interns. In addition to his teaching and academic responsibilities, Dr. Smogorzewski serves as an attending physician in the Medicine/Nephrology Department at the LAC+USC Medical Center and Nephrology/Transplant department at Keck Hospital of USC. An accomplished author of numerous peer reviewed medical articles, Dr. Smogorzewski is also an Associate Editor for the Mineral and Electrolyte Metabolism section of the American Journal of Nephrology. In 2007, Dr. Smogorzewski was invited back to Poland to lecture on Derangements in Brain Acetylcholine Metabolism for the Fifth International Congress on Uremia Research.

Education:

  • Medical Academy of Warsaw, Poland, Physician's Diploma, summa cum laude, 1973

Internships:

  • Warsaw Medical Academy Hospitals, Poland, 1973 - 1974

Residencies:

  • Warsaw Medical Academy Hospitals (Internal Medicine), Warsaw, Poland, 1974 - 1976
  • Warsaw Medical Academy Hospitals (Internal Medicine), Warsaw, Poland, 1977 - 1981

Fellowships:

  • Postgraduate Fellow in Renal Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, England, 1981
  • Research Fellowship, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA,1985 - 1988

Professional Society Memberships:

  • European Dialysis and Transplantation Association
  • European Renal Association, 1983 - Present
  • Polish Society of Nephrology, 1985 - Present
  • National Kidney Foundation of Southern California, 1989 - Present
  • National Kidney Foundation, 1989 - Present
  • American Society of Nephrology, 1990 - Present
  • International Society of Nephrology, 1990 - Present

Languages:

  • English
  • Polish
  • Russian