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M. Lee Sanders, PhD, MD, MSc

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Nephrology

Current Positions

  • Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Nephrology
  • Co-Director, Internal Medicine Clerkship, Carver College of Medicine

Education

  • PhD, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Medicinal Chemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee
  • MD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee
  • MSc, Clinical Investigation, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Fellow, Nephrology & Postdoctoral Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Fellow, Transplant Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Licenses & Certifications

  • Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine
  • Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology

Selected Publications

  • Priyadarshini, M., Eyck, P., Siniff, E., Binns, G., Sanders, M. L., Swee, M., Hornickel, J., Kalil, R. & Katz, D. (2022). Psychosocial Characteristics of Patients Evaluated for Kidney Transplant and Associations with Functional and Frailty Metrics at a Veterans Affairs Hospital​​​​. Clinical Transplantation 36 (2) e14530. PMID: 34783397.
  • Swee, M. L., Sanders, M. L., Phisitkul, K., Bailey, G., Thuman, A., Neuzil, N., Kumar, B., O'Shea, A. M. & Dixon, B. S. (2020). Development and Implementation of a Telenephrology Dashboard for Active Surveillance of Kidney Disease: A Quality Improvement Project. BMC Nephrology 21 (1) 424. PMID: 33023489.
  • Priyadarshini, M., Eyck, P., Kalil, R., Swee, M., Sanders, M. L., Binns, G., Hornickel, J. & Katz, D. (2021). Frailty Measures Can be Used to Predict the Outcome of Kidney Transplant Evaluation. Surgery 169 (3) 686-693. PMID: 32861436.
  • Story, M, Sanders, ML, Bashir, A, Longo, J, Abel, S, Grodstein, E, Dollard, S, Thomas, C and Katz, D. (2020). Infiltrating Kaposi sarcoma presenting as acute kidney injury: An unexpected consequence of deliberate hepatitis C positive organ transplantation. Transplant Infectious Disease. PMID: 33012057.
  • Stapleton, C. P., Birdwell, K. A., McKnight, A. J., Maxwell, A. P., Mark, P. B., Sanders, M. L., Chapman, F., van Setten, J., Phelan, P. J., Kennedy, C., Jardine, A., Traynor, J. P., Keating, B., Conlon, P. J. & Cavalleri, G. L. (2019). Polygenic Risk Score as a Determinant of Risk of Non-melanoma Skin Cancer in a European-descent Renal Transplant Cohort. American Journal of Transplantation 19 (3) 801-810. PMID: 30085400.
  • Suneja, M. & Sanders, M. L. (2017). Hypertensive emergency. Medical Clinics of North America 101 (3) 465-478. PMID: 28372707.
  • Sanders, M. L. & Langone, A. J. (2015). Drugs in development for prophylaxis of rejection in kidney transplant recipients. Transplant Research and Risk Management 7 59-69. DOI: 10.2147/TRRM.S61446.
  • Sanders, M. L., Karnes, J. H., Denny, J. C., Roden, D. M., Ikizler, T. A. & Birdwell, K. A. (2015). Clinical and Genetic Factors Associated with Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Kidney and Heart Transplant Recipients. Transplantation Direct 1 (4) 1-9. PMID: 26146661.
  • Jonsdottir, H., Sanders, M., Goettsche, L., Honkanen, I., Schwartz, A., Holanda, D., Stone, M. & Jabbari, A. (2022). Dual Diagnosis of Histiocytoid Sweet Syndrome and Anti-neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-associated Vasculitis. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology Case Reports 23 117-119. PMID: 35495970.
  • Golper, T. A., Fissell, R., Fissell, W. H., Hartle, P. M., Sanders, M. L. & Schulman, G. (2014). Hemodialysis: Core Curriculum 2014. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 63 (1) 153-163. PMID: 24268927. PMCID: 4276338.