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Dr. Mary Hammes DO is a clinical Nephrologist certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine for over 30 years.She has an interest in chronic out-patient hemodialysis and is the Medical Director for a large outpatient hemodialysis unit. Her clinical effort is focused on improving the lives and outcomes of patients with End Stage Kidney Disease.
Dr Hammes conducts research focused on the vascular access used by patients to receive their hemodialysis. This is considered their lifeline and is an important aspect of their care. Her primary research goal is to investigate the science behind vascular access failure specifically stenosis and thrombosis which will lead to improved care for patients on hemodialysis. In collaboration with other scientists at the University of Chicago, she has developed a novel patient specific milli-fluidic model to study the flow through veins used for dialysis. She has numerous publications on this topic, has been awarded research grants and directs a monthly dialysis access conference. Her work had brought together multi-discipline collaboration in medicine, surgery, radiology, epidemiology, bioengineering, and genetics with the aim to understand the choice of access placement, mechanism of access failure, direct treatment and improve overall morbidity and mortality of patients with end stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis.
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