Principal Investigator Profile
Dr. Donal Reddan
Biography
Dr. Reddan graduated from University College Dublin in 1992 (M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O.), and completed general internal medicine training in Dublin. He then went to the United States to complete his residency in internal medicine at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He subsequently completed a fellowship in the Division of Nephrology at Duke University Medical Center. After attaining American board certification in both internal medicine and nephrology, Dr. Reddan went on to earn a Masters in Health Sciences from Duke University in 2002 and joined the faculty at Duke and at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Reddan is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and belongs to a number of medical organisations in both Ireland and the United States, including the American Medical Association, and both the Americal and the International Socities of Nephrology. In 2003 Dr. Reddan took up his current posts as Consultant Nephrologist, General Physician & Clinical Lecturer in Merlin Park Hospital, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Duke University Medical Center, and Consultant Nephrologist & General Physician in Galway Clinic Private Hospital.
Research Area:
Dr. Reddan has published extensively in the area of chronic kidney disease and its accompanying cardiovascular risk and on issues relating to contrast-induced nephropathy. Dr. Reddan is frequently invited to speak on topics involving renal and cardiovascular diseases at venues in both Europe and North America and is the author of numerous book chapters, abstracts, and articles in journals such as the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Kidney International, The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Heart Journal, the American Journal of Cardiology, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the European Journal of Radiology.