Ruth A Mcdonald
Nephrologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Nephrology
4800 Sand Point Way Ne Seattle WA, 98105About
Ruth A. McDonald, MD, is an attending physician at Seattle Children
Education and Training
University of Minnesota Medical School 1987
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD- 1997
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A 14-year-old girl with recumbent proteinuria.
- Peritonitis due to Leuconostoc species in a child receiving peritoneal dialysis.
- Renal transplant outcomes in adolescents: a report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study.
- Pretransplant peritoneal dialysis and graft thrombosis following pediatric kidney transplantation: a NAPRTCS report.
- Changing trends in pediatric transplantation: 2001 Annual Report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study.
- Current immunosuppressive agents: efficacy, side effects, and utilization.
- Risk factors for catheter-related complications in pediatric peritoneal dialysis.
- Current immunosuppressive agents in pediatric renal transplantation: efficacy, side-effects and utilization.
- Renal transplantation in adolescents.
- Risk of lymphoma after renal transplantation varies with time: an analysis of the United States Renal Data System.
- Sonic tooth brushing reduces gingival overgrowth in renal transplant recipients.
- Emerging viral infections in transplantation.
- Sirolimus pharmacokinetics in pediatric renal transplant recipients receiving calcineurin inhibitor co-therapy.
- Contributions of the Transplant Registry: The 2006 Annual Report of the North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies (NAPRTCS).
- Adolescents are more likely to develop posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder after primary Epstein-Barr virus infection than younger renal transplant recipients.
Awards
- 2011 Seattle Super Doctors
- 2014 SEATTLE'S TOP DOCTOR - 2014 Seattle Metropolitan Magazine 2014
- 2009 Guide to America's Top Pediatricians Consumer's Research Council of
- 2013 Seattle's Top Doc Seattle Met Magazine
- 2012 U.S. News Top Doctor U.S. News and World Report
Treatments
- Research
- High Blood Pressure (hypertension)
- Birth Defects
Fellowships
- University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Pediatric Nephrology
- UW - Dept. of Pediatrics Fellowships
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