VASCULITIS & GLOMERULAR CENTER
New York Nephrology Vasculitis and Glomerular Center’s mission is to provide outstanding and comprehensive care to patients with vasculitis, glomerular diseases, and related inflammatory conditions. In addition, we aim to improve the diagnosis and management of these diseases by conducting patient-oriented research. A multidisciplinary team of specialists has been assembled that allow us to manage all aspects of care. Given the urgent nature of these conditions, a prime focus of the center is rapid evaluation and prompt initiation of an individualized treatment plan.
Conditions
VASCULITIS: refers to a group of conditions that cause inflammation of blood vessels.
ANCA-associated Vasculitis
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)/Wegener’s Granulomatosis
- Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)
- Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA)
Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease/Goodpasture disease
IgA Vasculitis/Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP)
Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
GLOMERULAR DISEASE
Glomerular diseases refer to a group of conditions that cause damage of the kidney filter.
Minimal Change Disease
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)
Membranous Nephropathy
Lupus nephritis
IgA Nephropathy
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Fibrillary glomerulonephritis
Immunotactoid glomerulonephritis
Paraprotein-mediated glomerular disease
FRANK B. CORTZAR, MD
Frank B Cortazar, M.D is the Director of the New York Nephrology Vasculitis and Glomerular Center. He attended medical school at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated first in his class. He then completed his internship, internal medicine residency, and nephrology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Following his training, Dr. Cortazar was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, an attending physician in the Renal Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Vasculitis Center. He was awarded the Massachusetts General Hospital Excellence in Clinical Nephrology award for outstanding clinical teaching.
He moved to the Albany area in 2019 to start the New York Nephrology Vasculitis and Glomerular Center. Dr. Cortazar’s primary interest is improving the care of patients with vasculitis and glomerular diseases. As a clinical researcher, he conducts patient-oriented observational studies and has served as a principal investigator for multiple international randomized trials evaluating novel therapeutic agents for ANCA vasculitis and gomerular diseases. His research has been published in Kidney International, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, and Arthritis and Rheumatology, among others. He has frequently been invited to lecture at national and international meetings on the management of ANCA vasculitis, lupus nephritis, and other glomerular diseases.
JORGE CERDÁ, MD, MS, FACP, FASN
Professor Cerdá earned his MD at the University of the Republic School of Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay in 1976 and his Nephrology Certificate in 1982. Between 1974–1991 he was successively Instructor, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Physiology at that University. Between 1979–80 he was a Fulbright Scholar in the US and completed a Master of Science in Physiology. He later completed a Nephrology Fellowship at the Albany Medical College and rose through the ranks to his current position of Clinical Professor of Medicine in 2010. Professor Cerdá is currently Chief of Medicine, St. Peter’s Healthcare Partners in Albany, New York.
Professor Cerdá publishes extensively in top peer-reviewed journals such as The Lancet, Nature Reviews, The Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, and Kidney International and participates as a speaker in the multiple national and international meetings of his specialty.
He is on the editorial board of numerous journals, including The Lancet, the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, Journal of Critical Care Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, and is an Associate Editor of Kidney International Reports and Blood Purification.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology, and a member of the International Society of Nephrology and the National Kidney Foundation, where he holds local, national and international leadership positions. Dr. Cerda’s main research interests focus on Critical Care Nephrology, acute kidney injury, continuous renal replacement therapies, kidney recovery and worldwide AKI epidemiology, as well as immunologically mediated kidney disease.
He is currently engaged on the development of evidence in the management of outpatient AKI requiring dialysis and the promotion of kidney recovery, as well as the development of educational instruments to promote early recognition of early kidney injury. In the context of the ISN, he advocates for kidney care in developing countries and the promotion of universal health care around the world.
Professor Cerdá has extensive experience as a speaker in multiple national and international meetings, and is a member of the Organizing Committee of the International AKI & CRRT Conference, a member of the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN), the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI), the AKI Committee and the North American & Caribbean Regional Board of the International Society of Nephrology, and the AKI Advisory Committee of the American Society of Nephrology.
Professor Cerdá is past-Associate Director of the Oby25 ISN initiative, where he worked to understand, design and implement world-wide acute kidney care initiatives in developing countries. He is currently Deputy Chair of the ISN Advocacy Group, and Chair of the recently launched AKI!Now ASN Initiative.
Resources
The following websites provide patient-centered information and resources for patients with vasculitis and glomerular disease. We are also starting a local support group for patients with vasculitis and glomerular disease in the Albany area.
If you are interested in participating, please email Tatiana.cordero@cdrenal.com
Some Helpful Links
* To book an appointment with one of our specialists to begin discussing your treatment plan contact Tatiana@cordero@cdrenal.com.