Nephropathology Fellowship

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Nephropathology Fellowship

Next Opening 2026-2027

This one-year fellowship provides comprehensive training in medical renal pathology and renal transplant pathology. The fellow is appointed to the faculty as a clinical instructor, encouraging professional development through graded responsibility and independence, leading to independent sign-out of cases for qualified fellows.

The service receives native and transplant kidney biopsies from Michigan Medicine Nephrology, Transplant Surgery, and Pediatric colleagues, as well as from community physicians throughout the state. The fellow will train with 5 pathologists having extensive training and experience and broad clinical and research experience, as well as have the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of clinicians in several disciplines to enhance learning and clinicopathologic correlation.

The fellow will be expected to attend and participate in daily sign-out of cases, weekly QA biopsy conferences, and monthly interdisciplinary conferences. Teaching opportunities are available with medical students and resident rotators.

Ample research opportunities are available and tailored to meet the trainee’s interests.

This program is not ACGME-accredited.

Requirements

Applicants must be Board-certified or Board-eligible in anatomic pathology or AP/CP.  Applicants must be US citizens, permanent residents, or pending permanent residents/EAD approved. J-1 visas are not eligible.

All non-US or Canadian medical school graduate applicants must hold a current, valid ECFMG certificate and be eligible for a State of Michigan professional license. State of Michigan license eligibility information is available at www.michigan.gov/. 

Stipends
Salary will be commensurate with the candidate's level of training.

Applications

Fellowship applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.  Applications will be reviewed once ALL required documents listed below are received:  

  • completed fellowship application
  • current CV
  • three letters of recommendation

Applications should be submitted online: Click Here

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Inquiries can be directed to:

Lois Arend, MD, PhD

Director, Renal Pathology Fellowship

Department of Pathology
2800 Plymouth Road, NCRC Bldg. 35
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-280
Phone:  (734) 232-5361
E-mail: larend@med.umich.edu

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