Vanessa Grubbs

Vanessa Grubbs is a nephrologist and a writer based in Oakland, California. She is an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She works at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Assistant Professor

Vanessa Grubbs
Vanessa Grubbs speaks at Stanford Geriatric Education Center in 2015
Born
North Carolina
NationalityAmerican
EducationDuke University
Duke University School of Medicine
OccupationNephrologist
Years active2009 - present
Medical career
InstitutionsZuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
ResearchNephrology

Early life and education

Grubbs was born in Spring Lake, North Carolina.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree at Duke University.[1] She remained at Duke University School of Medicine for medical school.[1]

Research and career

Grubbs joined the Alameda County Medical Center for her internal medicine residency.[1] She completed a nephrology fellowship at UCSF School of Medicine.[1] In 2012 she was awarded a National Institutes of Health K23 Career Development Award.[2] She is a Harold Amos Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Medical Faculty fellow.[3][4] She studied the dietary supplements of Americans that are potentially harmful in chronic kidney disease.[5][6] Her research focuses on the impact of periodontal disease on kidney function.[7][8] She is a member of the American Society of Nephrology and serves on the public policy board. She studied the outcomes of in-hospital palliative care consultations of patients with renal disease.[9]

Grubbs is a non-fiction writer and leads a workshop series for senior medical students in the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved.[7] She appeared on the cover of the American Society of Nephrology magazine Renal Life in 2018.[10]

Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers

Grubbs published her first book with Amistad in 2017.[11][12][13] The book describes how Grubbs met her husband, Robert Phillips, who had end-stage kidney disease.[11][14] Whilst searching for a kidney, Grubbs learned about the disparities in kidney allocation, where African American patients received only 1 in 5 of donated kidneys despite being 1 in 3 of transplant candidates.[15][16] The book documents other biases she has experienced as a woman of colour.[17] She donated her own kidney before getting an engagement ring.[18] It is also a collection of medical histories that covers the 400 years in the build-up of medical dialysis.[11] The book was well received by The New York Times and Kirkus Reviews.[17][19]

References
  1. "Vanessa Grubbs | UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  2. generator, metatags. "Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results". projectreporter.nih.gov. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  3. "History :: Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program". www.amfdp.org. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  4. "The Lucky One". RWJF. 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  5. Grubbs, Vanessa; Plantinga, Laura C.; Tuot, Delphine S.; Hedgeman, Elizabeth; Saran, Rajiv; Saydah, Sharon; Rolka, Deborah; Powe, Neil R. (May 2013). "Americans' Use of Dietary Supplements That Are Potentially Harmful in CKD". American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 61 (5): 739–747. doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2012.12.018. ISSN 0272-6386. PMC 3628413. PMID 23415417.
  6. "Diet and supplements: What's good and bad for kidney disease patients". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  7. "Vanessa Grubbs, MD | Center for Vulnerable Populations". cvp.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  8. Grubbs, Vanessa; Vittinghoff, Eric; Taylor, George; Kritz-Silverstein, Donna; Powe, Neil; Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten; Ishani, Areef; Cummings, Steven R. (2015-08-27). "The association of periodontal disease with kidney function decline: a longitudinal retrospective analysis of the MrOS dental study". Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 31 (3): 466–472. doi:10.1093/ndt/gfv312. ISSN 0931-0509. PMC 6071386. PMID 26320037.
  9. Grubbs, Vanessa; O’Riordan, David; Pantilat, Steve (2017-07-07). "Characteristics and Outcomes of In-Hospital Palliative Care Consultation among Patients with Renal Disease Versus Other Serious Illnesses". Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 12 (7): 1085–1089. doi:10.2215/CJN.12231116. ISSN 1555-9041. PMC 5498361. PMID 28655708.
  10. "President's Message from aakpRENALIFE Jan/Feb 2018 (Posted Jan. 25, 2018) - AAKP". AAKP. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  11. "A compatible couple, in more ways than one". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  12. "Vanessa Grubbs talks Interlaced Fingers on the Radio". NephJC. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  13. "Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers - Vanessa Grubbs M.D. - E-book". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  14. Schoenberg, Nara. "She gave her new love a kidney after dating for 9 months". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  15. "UCSF Doctor Chronicles Her Journey from Kidney Donor to Kidney Doctor". KQED. 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  16. Mr H Fox Channel 2 (2017-08-02), The C.O.W.S. Dr. Vanessa Grubbs: The Harvest of Black Organs, retrieved 2018-09-04
  17. "Four Timely Memoirs from the Halls of Medicine". Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  18. "I married my kidney donor". New York Post. 2017-06-14. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  19. HUNDREDS OF INTERLACED FINGERS by Vanessa Grubbs | Kirkus Reviews.
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