Internal Medicine - Nephrology

Professor of Medicine

University of Kentucky
Albert B. Chandler Medical Center
800 Rose Street, Room MN-564
Lexington, KY  40536-0298

Phone:  (859) 323-5049
Fax :  (859) 323-0232

Curriculum Vitae (PDF Link)
Updated: December 2008

Research/Clinical Interests:

Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Disorders
Dialysis
General Clinical Nephrology
Hypertension
Renal Bone Disease
Chronic Inflammation in Dialysis
Medical Education

Selected Publications (Book Chapters): 

J. Briggs, B. Sawaya, J. Schnermann. Disorders of Salt Balance, in Fluids and Electrolytes, J.P. Kokko and R.L. Tannen eds, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1990, pp. 70-138.

B.P. Sawaya, H.H. Malluche.  Vitamin D and Metabolic Bone Disease in Dialysis Patients.  Clinical Dialysis, 3rd Edition, A.R. Nissenson, R.N. Fine, D.E. Gentile Editors.  Appleton and Lange, Norwalk, CT, 1995, pp. 744-776.

J. Briggs, I. Singh, B. Sawaya, J. Schnermann.  Disorders of Salt Balance, in Fluids and Electrolytes, J.P. Kokko and R.L. Tannen eds, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1996, pp. 3-62.

P. Fanti, B.P. Sawaya.  Renal Osteodytrophy and Aluminum Intoxication, in Current Therapy in Nephrology and Hypertension.  Ed, R.J. Glassock.  Mosby-Year Book, Inc., 1998, pp. 295-301.

M.C. Monier-Faugere, B.P. Sawaya, H.H. Malluche: Renal osteodystrophy in Clinical Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, edited by Malluche, H.H., Sawaya, B.P., Hakim, R.M., Sayegh, M.H., Munich, Dustri-Verlag, II-8, 1999.