Pollocks make list of top nephrology, dialysis professors

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david jennifer pollockDavid and Jennifer PollockJennifer Pollock, Ph.D., and David Pollock, Ph.D., are among 15 professors identified as today’s leaders in advancing and teaching nephrology and dialysis technology by medicaltechnologyschools.com, which helps students identify the best professors in technology fields.

Together the Pollocks have have developed a brand new area of translational cardio-renal research through their work with endothelial cells in the kidney blood vessels.

Jennifer Pollock teaches nephrology and kidney studies and is nationally recognized for both her student mentorship and research, as evidenced by her recent Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award from the American Physiological Society (APS).

David Pollock also is a past president of the APS and the recipient of the Louis K. Dahl Award for Hypertension Research from the American Heart Association in 2013. He recently visited Cuba with an APS delegation to sign a historic agreement for research collaboration with leaders of the Cuban Society of Physiological Sciences.

The Pollocks joined UAB in 2014 to build the new cardio-renal program.