Associate Professor of Medicine Medical Director, Kidney Transplant Program MD: Mayo Medical School Residency: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine Fellowship: Mayo; Oregon Health and Sciences University Certification: Internal Medicine, Nephrology 434-924-5125 | Fax 434-924-5848 | dsk9s@virginia.edu

My research interests have been in the areas of access to transplantation, allocation issues in kidney transplantation, outcomes after transplantation with a particular interest in delayed graft function and chronic allograft nephropathy, and, more recently, issues surrounding minority access and outcomes after transplantation. I am also interested in the approaches to transplantation in the highly sensitized patient.

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Keith DS, Ashby VB, Port FK, Leichtman AB. Insurance type and minorities associated with large disparities in prelisting dialysis exposure among candidates for kidney transplantation. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008;3:463-470.

Keith DS, Cantarovich M, Paraskevas S, Tchervenkov J. Duration of dialysis pre-transplantation is an important risk factor for delayed recovery of renal function following deceased donor kidney transplantation. Transplant Int. 2008;21:126-132.

de Mattos AM, Prather J, Olyaei AJ, Shibagaki Y, Keith DS, Mori M, Norman DJ, Becker T. Cardiovascular events following renal transplantation: role of traditional and transplant-specific risk factors. Kidney Int. 2006;70:757-764.

Keith DS, Cantarovich M, Paraskevas S, Tchervenkov J. Recipient age and risk of chronic allograft nephropathy in primary deceased donor kidney transplant. Transplant Int. 2006;19:649-656.

Schiff J, Paraskevas S, Keith D, Tchervenkov J, Metrakos P, Cantarovich M. Prediction of the glomerular filtration rate using equations in kidney-pancreas transplant patients receiving cimetidine. Transplantation. 2006;81:469-472.

Keith DS, deMattos A, Golconda M, Prather J, Cantarovich M, Paraskevas S, Tchervenkov J, Norman D. Factors associated with improvement in deceased donor renal allograft function during the 1990's. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2005;16:1512-1521.

Keith DS, deMattos A, Golconda M, Prather J, Norman D. The impact of donor recipient age match on survival after first deceased donor renal transplant. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2004;15:1086-1091.