Professional Background

Lawrence Sullivan, Ph.D., introduced to KUMC the first modern studies of renal tubular function in 1964 and was joined one year later by Darrell Fanestil, M.D., the first director of Nephrology, who introduced Kansas to chronic dialysis and transplantation. In 1967 the Sullivan Conference Formal Seminar Series was started by Dr. Sullivan as an informal renal journal club to provide graduate students and postdoctoral fellows a venue to present research papers. This weekly meeting has evolved into an interdisciplinary research conference attended by faculty, students and fellows from Physiology, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Pathology, Nephrology and Pediatric departments.