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Establishment of MWPNC:
The Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium (MWPNC) was established in 2004 due to an identified need:
The Pediatric Nephrology literature was full of interesting hypotheses and novel treatments but very few reports had sufficient numbers of patients to truly drive improvements in clinical practice.
MWPNC Mission:
To Improve and promote high quality care of pediatric nephrology patients through:
- Facilitating collaborative clinical and translational research
- Defining best clinical practices
- Promoting the career development of our members
MWPNC Aims:
- Develop and perform multi-center retrospective clinical and translational studies addressing important clinical problems faced by nephrologists
- To develop and perform multi-center prospective clinical and translational studies addressing important clinical problems unable to be adequately addressed at a single center.
- Provide opportunities for pediatric nephrology fellows and junior faculty to become involved in multi-center clinical and translational studies and publications to enhance their career development.
Current Statistics:
We have made outstanding progress towards achieving these aims and are continuing to take even greater strides as others join our efforts.
- Members meet semi-annually (spring/fall)
- Steering Committee - 5 members (administrative oversight)
- Protocol Review Committee - 6 members (peer review process to enhance and approve all MWPNC studies)
- 30 Member Centers - All participating in at least one approved study (see attached)
- Member centers now represent over 70 physicians, nurses and coordinators
- The MWPNC has now published 11 manuscripts (see attached)
- 4 NIH grants awarded to MWPNC studies (U01, R21, R21)
- 11 Total grants awarded to MWPNC studies
- 2 NIH grants currently submitted for MWPNC studies (R01, U34)
- 16 Multi-center studies currently being conducted!