JohnFriedewaldMD

Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation

Professor in Medicine-Nephrology and Surgery-Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University // Medical Director, Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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Office
676 N Saint Clair St
suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone+1 312-695-0338

Fax+1 312-695-9194

Summary

I am a transplant nephrologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL.

Education & Training

Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Nephrology, 2001 - 2003
Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2001
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsClass of 1998

Certifications & Licensure

IL State Medical License 2005 - 2026
IN State Medical License 2008 - 2025
PA State Medical License 2003 - 2006
MD State Medical License 2001 - 2004
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com

Clinical Trials

Urine Testing to Detect Kidney Transplant Rejection Start of enrollment: 2006 Jun 01
Completed
Proteogenomic Monitoring and Assessment of Kidney Transplant Recipients Start of enrollment: 2010 Apr 01
Recruiting
Correlation of Donor-specific Anti-endothelial Cells Start of enrollment: 2011 Jun 01
Completed

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Successful Multiorgan Transplantation in Highly Sensitized Patients With Positive Crossmatch Donor.
Benjamin Louis Thomae, Taisuke Kaihou, David F Pinelli, John J Friedewald, Juan C Caicedo-Ramirez
Clinical Transplantation. 2024-12-01
Attitudes Toward Use of an APOL1 Genetic Testing Chatbot in Living Kidney Donor Evaluation: A Focus Group Study.
James L Rogers, Jessica Gacki-Smith, Rochell Yacat, Catherine Wicklund, Debra Duquette
Clinical Transplantation. 2024-12-01
Competing and Noncompeting Risk Models for Predicting Kidney Allograft Failure.
Agathe Truchot, Marc Raynaud, Ilkka Helanterä, Olivier Aubert, Nassim Kamar
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2024-10-16

Journal Articles

Report of National Kidney Foundation Consensus Conference to Decrease Kidney Discards
Stephen Pastan, John Friedewald, Sumit Mohan, Ryutaro Hirose, Richard Formica, Clinical Transplantation
Development and Clinical Validity of a Novel Blood‐Based Molecular Biomarker for Sub‐Clinical Acute Rejection Following Kidney Transplant
Jonah Odim, Michael M Abecassis, John J Friedewald, Emilio D Poggio, Raymond L Heilman, American journal of transplantation

Lectures

Needle Phobia: Kidney Transplant Biopsy Alternatives
American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2019 - Washington, D.C. - 11/7/2019

Press Mentions

Donating a Kidney Is Safer Than Ever, Reassuring Research FindsAugust 28th, 2024
A ‘Miraculous’ Connection Gave This Northbrook Woman a New Kidney and Twin Boys — But Now, Her Organ Is Failing AgainMay 15th, 2023
Chicago Doctor Donates Kidney to Stranger, Starts Chain That Saves 2 LivesApril 6th, 2023
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Committees

Member, OPTN/UNOS Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) 2016 - Present
Chair, American Society of Transplantation (AST) Kidney-Pancreas Community of Practice 2015 - Present