CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION: Dr. MAHENDRA KUMAR JOSHI MBBS, MD, MRCP, RCP-SCE (NEPHROLOGY). MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS: BOARD CERTIFIED-Aug 1998 & 2009 AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST NEPHROLOGY (RCP-SCE) Royal College of Physicians UK. Nephrology Specialty Certificate examination certified in March 2012. MRCP (UK) MARCH 1993 ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. UK. M.D. MARCH 1982 S.M.S MEDICAL COLLEGE, JAIPUR, INDIA M.B.B.S. JULY 1977 S.M.S. MEDICAL COLLEGE, JAIPUR, INDIA. CURRENT APPOINTMENT: Solo Private Practice: Joshi clinic, 16 B Murray guard, Jackson, TN 38305 RESIDENCY PROGRAM & INTERNISHIP(Internal Medicine): RESIDENCY PROGRAM PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTEROF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM,39th & market, PHILADELPHIA. Tel: 1215 662 8000. PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS (Nephrology and Transplant Fellowship UK) REGISTRAR IN NEPHROLOGY & GENERAL MEDICINE FOR NORTH REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY AT ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,QUEENS ROAD, NEWCASTLE. U.K. REGISTRAR AT DEPT. OF NEPHROLOGY & INTERNAL MEDICINE, SOUTH CLEVELAND HOSPITAL, MIDDDLESBROUGH CLEVELAND, UK.TS4 3BW MEDICAL SHO/REGISTRAR. SCUNTHORPE GENERAL HOSPITAL, SCUNTHORPE, UK. POSTGRADUATE TRAINING IN INDIA: 09.10.78 - 12.31.81 09.10.77-09.09.78 3-YEAR MEDICAL RESIDENCY ROTATION IN INTERNAL MEDICINE INTERNSHIP LICENSURE: State of Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Florida. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: To undergraduates: 1. SMS MEDICAL COLLEGE JAIPUR, INDIA 2.SOUTH CLEVELAND HOSPITAL, MIDDLESBROUGH.UK. To postgraduates: MRCP CANDIDATES AT SOUTH CLEVELAND HOSPITAL, MIDDLESBROUGH, UK CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Attending physician, Jackson Medicine County General hospital and Regional hospital of Jackson. Member, Medical executive committee, Regional hospital Jackson. Physician adviser: Regional hospital, Jackson for Quality improvement and optimization of care and resource management. Member- Utilization review committee – Regional hospital, Jackson, TN. Chief, of Pharmacy and therapeutics committee since 2005. Chief physician, Joshi clinic MD PA. Member, American college of Physicians Member, Royal society of Nephrology, UK. Member, National Kidney foundation. Physician Participant: “KEEP(Kidney Early Evaluation Program)” of National kidney Foundation for screening of early renal disease in community. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS: 1. Dissertation submitted to University of Rajasthan entitled “Comparative study of different vasodilators on peritoneal clearance in renal failure patients on rapid flow peritoneal dialysis” in 1982. 2. A clinical study of permanent vascular access in hemodialysis patients. Saudi kidney diseases and Transplant bulletin, vol. 2, no2, 1991 3. “Iron stores in hemodialysis patients assessed by ferritin, ZPP and clinical response”. This paper was presented at Scottish renal association in Edinburgh, 1994. Abstract published in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplant 1995; 10 Number 5: 752. 4. "Emergency treatment of polycythaemia in a renal transplant recipient: role of intraoperative phlebotomy." Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Vol 11, number 11, 2337. 5. Acute rhabdomyolysis and renal failure in HIV-infected patients: risk factors, presentation and pathophysiology. AIDS Patient Care STDs, 2000;14:541-548. 6. A case report of Green Urine. Tenn Med. 2000 Jun;93(6):208-9