The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 

 

 

presents

 

 

 

Mariana S. Markell, M.D.

 

 

 

Potential benefits of complementary medicine modalities in patients with chronic kidney disease

                                                                            

 

 

Wednesday January 24, 2007

 

 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM*

 

Hammer Health Sciences Center (HHSC) Room 304

(a classroom; Directions over)

 

                                                          701 W. 168th Street*, 3rd floor
 
*You are welcome to bring lunch

 

 

Mariana S. Markell, M.D. is Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where she specializes in transplant nephrology.   Dr. Markell has been interested in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for a wide range of indications since beginning her practice of Nichiren Buddhsm in 1983.  In addition to her work as a clinician and investigator, she is an educator.  Dr. Markell has written articles for the nephrology community to introduce them to CAM concepts, taught introductory courses in CAM for the medical school at SUNY Downstate, and coordinated several large conferences focusing on the evidence base for CAM therapies.
 
Paper (available at meeting):
 
Markell MS. Potential benefits of complementary medicine modalities in patients with chronic kidney disease.  Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2005 Jul;12(3):292-9. Review.
 
               
 
Mariana S. Markell, M.D.
 
 
Dr. Mariana Markell (above with Eli Friedman, MD of SUNY Downstate) is a graduate of Yale University and New York Medical College. She completed her internal medicine residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and her nephrology Fellowship at UCLA Medical Center. She has received training in botanical therapies as well as mind/body therapies, has performed multiple research projects investigating the use of CAM modalities in and by patients with kidney disease, and often uses CAM modalities in her practice at SUNY Downstate where she is a transplant nephrologist.
 
 
 
Selected Publications
 
Markell M.  Is glycated hemoglobin level a sensitive indicator of new-onset diabetes after renal transplantation?
Nature Clin Pract Nephrol. 2006 Sep;2(9):486-7. 
 
Salifu MO, Tedla F, Markell MS.  Management of the well renal transplant recipient: outpatient surveillance and treatment recommendations.  Semin Dial. 2005 Nov-Dec;18(6):520-8. Review. 
 
Markell MS. Potential benefits of complementary medicine modalities in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2005 Jul;12(3):292-9. Review. 
 
Markell M. New-onset diabetes mellitus in transplant patients: pathogenesis, complications, and management.
Am J Kidney Dis. 2004 Jun;43(6):953-65. Review.
 
 
 

Directions:   NW Corner of West 168th Street and Ft. Washington Avenue, 1 long block west of Broadway (W. 168th becomes Haven Avenue west of Ft. Washington Ave.). Go to this website for a map, http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/about/map.html.  HHSC #4 on the map.  There is a parking garage at W. 165th Street & Ft. Washington Ave.