Ursula C. Brewster

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Firm Chief for Peters/Fitkin Medical Firm
Associate Program Director, Nephrology Fellowship
Section of Nephrology

Clinical Interests

• Pregnancy and Kidney Disease
• Women’s Health and Kidney Disease
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• End-Stage Renal Disease
• Hemodialysis
• Peritoneal dialysis

Research Interests

• Hemodynamics of dialysis patients
• Preservation of vascular access and prevention of infection

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As a clinician-educator, my focus is primarily on the care of patients with renal disease and on the education of the fellows and housestaff. I function as the associate program director for the nephrology fellowship program and as the Associate Firm Chief of the Peters/Fitkin medical firm. In these roles I participate a great deal in the educational mission of the department of medicine.

In my clinical practice, I focus on the overlap of pregnancy and high blood pressure and/or concurrent kidney disease. I have a general nephrology clinic where these patients are seen along with patients with kidney disease for any other reason. I enjoy the preventive and longitudinal care of patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.

I work closely with the nephrology fellows and other physicians from all services on the care of those patients in the hospital and intensive care units with end stage renal disease, CKD or acute kidney injury.

My research interests have been largely focused in the hemodialysis patient population and have included the preservation of vascular access, prevention of infection and hemodynamic changes in patients during dialysis.

Selected Recent Publications

• Brewster UC, Perazella MA: The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System in the kidney. Renin Ang Sys Cardiovasc Med 2005; 1 (2): 6-10.
• Brewster UC, Perazella MA. Proton pump inhibitors and the kidney: critical review. Clinical Nephrology 2007;68(2):65-72.
• Rho M, Parikh CR, Peixoto AJ, Perazella MA, Brewster UC. Serum vasopressin response during intradialytic hypotension. CJASN 2008;3(3):729-35.
• Wu I, Marin EP, Kashgarian M, Brewster UC. A case of an acute kidney injury secondary to an implanted aminoglycoside. Kidney Int 2008.
• Yusuf B, McPhedron P, Brewster UC. Hypocalcemia in a dialysis patient treated with Deferasirox for iron overload. Am J Kidney Dis 2008; 52 (3): 587-590.
• Park M, Brewster UC. Management of Preeclampsia. Hosp Physician 2007 Nov;43 (11):25-32.
• Brewster UC. Core Curriculum: Dermatologic Manifestations in Chronic Kidney Disease. Am J Kid Disease 2008; 51(2):331-44.
• Brewster UC. Proteinuria in Pregnancy: What does it mean? Contemporary OB/Gyn. 2008; 53 (4): 56-75.

Education:	B.A., 1994: Yale College M.D., 1998: Dartmouth Medical School
Training:	Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital Fellowship: Yale University

Contact

Campus Address
Section of Nephrology
Department of
Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
P.O. Box 208029
New Haven, CT
06520–8029

E-mail
ursula.brewster@yale.edu