Scientific Advisory Board
Frederick Kaskel, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Vice Chairman, Affiliate & Network Relations
Chief, Section on Nephrology
Children's Hospital at Montefiore
111 East 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467
Business: (718) 655-1120
Business Fax: (718) 652-3136
Email: fkaskel@aecom.yu.edu
Dr. Frederick Kaskel is a Pediatric Nephrologist, Chief of the Section of Pediatric Nephrology, and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Kaskel is the President of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology and also Chairman of the Enuresis Committee of the National Kidney Foundation. He also holds the position of Medical Director of the Ruth Gottscho Children’s Kidney Program at Frost Valley YMCA, which allows children who are on dialysis or who have received a kidney transplant to attend summer camp.
Dr. Kaskel is a principal investigator in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Clinical Trial. He was awarded a prestigious NIH grant to coordinate the trial. The focus of this FSGS trial is to find the best possible treatment for the condition and identify the mechanisms responsible for its cause(s). Dr. Kaskel stresses the importance of the clinical trials to investigators in order to offer hope to patients and their families. The research emphasis of the Section of Pediatric Nephrology has focused on the mechanisms responsible for normal kidney development and function, and their translation in pathophysiologic conditions resulting in renal disease.
Dr. Kaskel attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati. After completing his residency at Montefiore Medical Center, he pursued his fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Dr. Kaskel was recently nominated for Castle Connolly’s America’s Top Doctors, 2008.
Selected Publications:
Supavekin S, Zhang W, Kucherlapati R, Kaskel FJ, Moore LC, Devarajan P. Differential gene expression following early renal ischemia-reperfusion. Kidney International, 2003 (in press).
Kaskel, FJ. Chronic Renal Disease, A Growing Problem. Nephrology Forum: Kidney International, 2003 in press)
Erkan E, Devarajan P, Kaskel FJ. Role of nitric oxide, endothelin-1, and inflammatory cytokines in blood pressure regulation in hemodialysis patients. Am. Journal Kidney Disease, 40(1):76-81, 2002.