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Dr. Kevin Ho is the Director of the UPMC Dialysis Services Network for outpatient hemodialysis, as well as, Medical Co-Director of the DCI (Dialysis Clinic, Inc.) Oakland & Wilkinsburg dialysis centers with an emphasis on continuous quality initiatives and protocol standardization. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Renal Division at Washington University in St. Louis and a staff nephrologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital until 2000. In 1992 he discovered the family of two transmembrane domain potassium channels, inward rectifier (Kir) potassium channels, by expression cloning and proposing the molecular architecture of the initial member, ROMK1 (Kir1.1a), while working under the mentorship of Dr. Steven C. Hebert at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. The ROMK potassium channel in the Loop of Henle and distal nephron is the principal mechanism for urinary potassium secretion and underlies potassium homeostasis.
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