Dr. Virginia Upchurch Collier M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
Christiana Hospital 4755 Ogletown Stanto Newark DE, 19718About
Dr. Virginia Collier is a nephrologist practicing in Newark, DE. Dr. Collier specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Collier most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The good news about giving bad news to patients.
- Frequency and perceived competence in providing palliative care to terminally ill patients: a survey of primary care physicians.
- Physicians' willingness to report impaired colleagues.
- Primary care practitioners' understanding of physiatric practice: effects on intention to refer.
- Physicians' decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment.
- Redesigning training for internal medicine.
- BRIEF REPORT: health care provided by program directors to their resident physicians and families.
- Primary care physicians' decisions about discharging patients from their
- Use of pay for performance in a community hospital private hospitalist group: a preliminary report.
- When the patient does not pay: a survey of primary care physicians.
- Influenza.
- Access to health care in America.
- Safety science as second nature: training residents to use best practices instinctively to keep patients safe.
- The effect of nutritional therapy on the course of chronic renal failure.
- The effect of nutritional therapy on the course of chronic renal failure.
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1600 ROCKLAND RD PO BOX 269 WILMINGTON DE 19899