Dr. Jeffrey Peden Harris MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
1440 Amherst Street Winchester VA, 22601About
Dr. Jeffrey Harris is a nephrologist practicing in Winchester, VA. Dr. Harris specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Harris most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Ga Sch of Med, Augusta Ga 1972
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Immunological damage to the inner ear: current and future therapeutic strategies.
- A case against spiral ligament atrophy as a cause of Meniere's disease.
- Immune-mediated hearing loss: basic mechanisms and options for therapy.
- Tumor necrosis factor-alpha, an initiator, and etanercept, an inhibitor of cochlear inflammation.
- Blockage of immune-mediated inner ear damage by etanercept.
- Proinflammatory cytokine expression in the endolymphatic sac during inner ear inflammation.
- Relationship of tinnitus questionnaires to depressive symptoms, quality of well-being, and internal focus.
- Intratympanic gentamicin therapy for Ménière's disease: a meta-analysis.
- Cochlear microperfusion: experimental evaluation of a potential new therapy for severe hearing loss caused by inflammation.
- Serial audiometry in a clinical trial of AIED treatment.
- Meta-analysis of intratympanic gentamicin.
- Transforming growth factor beta expression during an inner ear immune response.
- Mastoid obliteration.
- Comparison of hearing results of nitinol SMART stapes piston prosthesis with conventional piston prostheses: postoperative results of nitinol stapes prosthesis.
- Inner ear steroid perfusion.
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