Dr. Douglas James Norman MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland OR, 97239About
Dr. Norman is a Professor of Medicine and Director of both the Immunogenetics Laboratory and Transplant Medicine at OHSU. He has training in Medicine, Clinical Transplantation, Transplant Immunology a ...
Education and Training
Univ of Wa Sch of Med, Seattle Wa 1972
University of Washington School of Medicine 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Validation of an algorithm for predicting cardiac events in renal transplant candidates.
- Renal transplantation at Oregon Health and Science University: recent results and protocols.
- Autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease as a risk factor for diabetes mellitus following renal transplantation.
- Factors associated with improvement in deceased donor renal allograft function in the 1990s.
- The kidney transplant wait-list: allocation of patients to a limited supply of organs.
- Kidney paired donation: a single-center study of feasibility and outcomes.
- Tularemia in a renal transplant recipient.
- Long-term kidney regraft survival from deceased donors: risk factors and outcomes in a single center.
- Late steroid withdrawal and cardiovascular events in kidney transplant recipients.
- United network for organ sharing (UNOS) organ allocation policy and kidney utilization.
- African American living-kidney donors should be screened for APOL1 risk alleles.
- An update on the impact of pre-transplant transfusions and allosensitization on time to renal transplant and on allograft survival.
- Tacrolimus exposure in the real world: an analysis from the Mycophenolic acid Observational REnal transplant study.
- Association of Kidney Graft Loss With De Novo Produced Donor-Specific and Non-Donor-Specific HLA Antibodies Detected by Single Antigen Testing.
- Donor-specific antibodies require preactivated immune system to harm renal transplant.
Professional Memberships
- Member HISTOCOMPATABILITY & IMMUNOGENETICS 1994
Fellowships
- PETER B BRIGHAM HSP, BOSTON, MA 1976
- Nephrology-Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA 1976
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