I’m a clinical nephrologist from Detroit, Michigan. I consider seeing patients my day job but my passion is medical education. I caught the bug in 1993 while writing a 200 page microbiology study guide during my third year of medical school. The proceeds of that project funded a more ambitious project, a 4 year, 500 page, fluids and electrolyte masterpiece that was a commercial flop. In 2003 I launched a pediatric application on the Palm Pilot (remember those?) called Kidometer. I started one of the first nephrology blogs in 2008. I am active on twitter and somehow today I find myself to be the public face of nephrology on Twitter. In 20013 I was a founder of NephMadness, a totally preposterous, social media-medical education-gamification-Franken Creature that rocks the nephrology social media sphere every March. In 2014 I co-founded NephJC, a Twitter journal club for nephrology that meets twice a month.

In addition to my work in social media I teach the second year medical students at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. I also teach residents, med students and fellows at St John Providence Hospital and Medical Center, where I was awarded Teach of the Year.