Christopher Lu, M.D.
Professor

Patient care:  University Hospital St Paul - inpatient nephrology consultant.  Parkland Memorial Hospital - inpatient and outpatient transplant nephrology.  Special interests: acute renal failure, ICU nephrology, renal transplantation, renal disease in liver, lung, and heart transplants and patients with heart/ lung assist devices.

Teaching:  renal fellows, medical residents and students, and PhD candidates in Immunology. 

Research: see link to Christopher Lu Lab on upper-right of this page under "Contacts."

Medical School

Harvard Medical School (1974)

Internship

Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (1975), Internal Medicine

Residency

Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (1977), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

Harvard Medical School (1980), Pathology

Fellowship

Harvard Medical School (1981), Nephrology

• acute kidney injury (acute renal failure)
• transplant rejection

Featured Publications

The inflammatory response to ischemic acute kidney injury: a result of the ?right stuff? in the ?wrong place.?

Lu, C.Y., J Hartono, M. Senitko, J. Chen. Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension 2007 16 (2) 72-89

Perspectives in basic science: Hypothesis: is renal allograft rejection initiated by the response to injury sustained during the transplant process?

Lu, C.Y., Penfield, J.G., Kielar, M.L., Vazquez, M.A., Jeyarajah, D.R Kidney International 1999 55 2157-2168

Acute kidney injury: the beginning of the end of the dark ages.

Winterberg PD, Lu CY Am. J. Med. Sci. 2012 Oct 344 4 318-25

Acute kidney injury: a conspiracy of Toll-like receptor 4 on endothelia, leukocytes, and tubules.

Lu CY, Winterberg PD, Chen J, Hartono JR Pediatr. Nephrol. 2012 Oct 27 10 1847-54

 Featured Books

Ch 88: The inflammatory response to ischemic acute renal injury. In Seldin and Giebisch's The Kidney: Physiology and Pathophysiology

Lu, Christopher Y. (2013). London, Elsevier

• Invited lecturer
  Symposium on Endothelium in Acute Kidney Injury, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (2011)
• invited lecturer
  US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) symposium on therapy of acute kidney injury (2011)
• Fellow
  American Society of Nephrology (2010)
• Permanent Member
  NIH Pathobiol Kidney Dis Initial Rev Grp 2006-2010 (2010)
• President
  Texas Transplantation Society (2008)
• Chairman
  Kidney/ Pancreas Committee, Am Soc Transplant Phys (1996)
• NIH Research Career Devel Award
  (1989)
• Phi Beta Kappa
  (1969)
• Fellow, American Society of Nephrology
  

• American Association of Immunologists
• American Society of Nephrology
• American Society of Transplantation