Participating Clinical Centers
Your participation in the NEPTUNE study makes it possible for researchers to find new treatments, create new studies, and work for the improvement of all our lives.
California

A part of the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Nephrology
4650 Sunset Blvd MS# 40
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Principal Investigator: Kevin C. Lemley, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator: Cecile Fajardo, DO

Division of Nephrology
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Principal Investigator: Richard Lafayette, MD, PhD

Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology
1124 W. Carson St.
Torrence, CA 90509
Principal Investigator: Sharon Adler, MD
Florida
Division of Nephrology & Hypertension
Clinical Research Building (C-221)
1120 NW 14th St, Suite 806
Principal Investigator: Alessia Fornoni, MD, PhD, FASN
Georgia

Emory Children’s Center
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Division of Pediatric Nephrology
2015 Upper Gate Dr. NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
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Outpatient Pediatric Research Center
1405 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
Principal Investigator: Larry Greenbaum, MD, PhD
Illinois

Division of Nephrology & Hypertension
1969 W Ogen Ave
Chicago, IL 60612
Principal Investigator: Ambarish Athavale, MD
Kansas

Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160
Principal Investigator: Ellen McCarthy
Maryland

Division of Nephrology
1800 Orleans Street
Baltimore, MD 21287
Principal Investigator: Meredith Atkinson, MD
Michigan

University of Michigan Hospital
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
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Department of Nephrology/Internal Medicine
1150 W. Medical Center Dr
Ann Arbor, MI 48019-5676
NEPTUNE Principal Investigator: Matthis Kretzler, MD, University of Michigan Professor, Internal Medicine
Co-Investigator: Debbie Gipson, MD, University of Michigan Associate Professor
NEPTUNE Project Manager: Tina Mainieri, MA
Clinical Research Project Manager: Chrysta Lienczewski
Minnesota

500 Harvard Street
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Principal Investigator: Patrick Nachman, MD
Co-Investigator: Michelle Rheault, MD

Mayo Nephrology Collaborative Group (MNCG) Clinical Trials
Division of Nephrology & Hypertension
Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW
Rochester, MN 5590
Principal Investigator: Fernando Fervenza, MD, PhD
Missouri

Children’s Mercy Hospital
2401 Gillham Road
Kansas City, MO 64108
Principal Investigator: Tarak Srivastava, MD
Divison of Nephrology
John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
600 S. Euclid Ave. CB 8126
St. Louis, MO 63110
New York

Pediatric Nephrology
269-01 76th Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Principal Investigator: Christine Sethna, MD, EdM

Nephrology
Irving Pavilion
161 Fort Washington Ave., Room 202
New York, NY 10032
Principal Investigator: Gerald Appel, MD

The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
3415 Bainbridge Avenue
Bronx, NY 10467
Principal Investigator: Frederick Kaskel, MD

Division of Nephrology
530 First Avenue, SK-9U
New York City, NY 10016
Principal Investigator: Howard Trachtman, MD
Co-Investigator: Olga Zhdanova, MD
North Carolina

Levine Children's Speciality Center - Nephrology
1001 Blythe Blvd., Suite C
Charlotte, NC 28203

Nephrology Division
UNC Kidney Center
CB 7155, Burnett-Womack Bldg.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Principal Investigator: Vimal Derebail, MD, MPH, Nephrologist
Co-Investigator: Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH, Pediatric Nephrologist

Department of Nephrology
Medical Center Boulevard
Richard H Dean Biomedical Building
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
Pricipal Investigator: Jen-Jar Lin, MD
Ohio
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Principal Investigator: Katherine Dell, MD Cleveland Clinic
Co-Investigator: John Sedor, MD Cleveland Clinic
Co-Investigator: Jagmeet Dhingra, MD MetroHealth Medical Center
Participating Clinical Centers:
MetroHealth System Campus-CWRU
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital

Nephrology
410 W 10th Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Principal Investigator: Salem Almaani, MBBS
Pennsylvania

The Hub for Clinical Collaboration
3500 Civic Center Blvd
Suite 9560-07
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Co-Investigator: Kevin Meyers, MBBCh

Nephrology
3440 N. Broad St. Kresge Bldg. West, Suite 100
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Principal Investigator: Crystal Gadugbeku, MD

Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension Division
410 E. Hill Pavilion
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Principal Investigator: Lawrence Holzman, MD
South Carolina

Principal Investigator: David Selewski, MD, MS
Texas


UT Southwestern Medical Center Division of Nephrology
Parkland Hospital
UT Southwestern Medical Center William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital
Children’s Health
Division of Nephrology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-8516
Principal Investigator: Kamalanathan K. Sambandam, MD
Co-Investigator: Elizabeth Brown, MD
Washington

Nephrology and Kidney Care
105 W 8th Ave, Suite 7010
Spokane, WA 99204
Principal Investigator: Katherine Tuttle, MD

Nephrology
4800 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Principal Investigator: Sangeeta Hingorani, MD, MPH

Division of Nephrology
1959 NE Pacific St.
Seattle, WA 98195
Prinicpal Investigator: J. Ashley Jefferson, MD
Ontario, Canada

Toronto General Hospital
NCSB 11C-1256
585 University Ave
Toronto, ON M5G 2N2 CANADA
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC)
2075 Bayview Ave – A139
Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 CANADA
Principal Investigator: Heather Reich, MD PhD
Co-Investigator: Michelle A. Hladunewich, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)