• Clinical Assistant Professor, Global Health

Seattle, WA
United States

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bathomas@uw.edu
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Biography 

Dr. Thomas practices clinical nephrology part-time and devotes the rest of her time to global health needs within the field of nephrology. These needs encompass determining the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, as well as evaluating the barriers to delivering renal replacement therapy in resource-poor settings.

Education 
  • MD (Temple University)
  • MS (University of Washington)
  • BA (Immaculata University)
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Health Topics 
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Non-Communicable Diseases
  • Research
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Publications 

Carrero JJ, Hecking M, Ulasi I, Sola L, Thomas B. Chronic Kidney Disease, Gender, and Access to Care: A Global Perspective. Semin Nephrol. 2017 May;37(3):296-308. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2017.02.009.

Levin A, Tonelli M, Bonventre J, Coresh J, Donner JA, Fogo AB, Fox CS, Gansevoort RT, Heerspink HJL, Jardine M, Kasiske B, Köttgen A, Kretzler M, Levey AS, Luyckx VA, Mehta R, Moe O, Obrador G, Pannu N, Parikh CR, Perkovic V, Pollock C, Stenvinkel P, Tuttle KR, Wheeler DC, Eckardt KU; ISN Global Kidney Health Summit participants. Global kidney health 2017 and beyond: a roadmap for closing gaps in care, research, and policy. Lancet. 2017 Apr 20. pii: S0140-6736(17)30788-2. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30788-2. [Epub ahead of print]

Thomas B, Matsushita K, Abate KH, Al-Aly Z, Ärnlöv J, Asayama K, Atkins R, Badawi A, Ballew SH, Banerjee A, Barregård L, Barrett-Connor E, Basu S, Bello AK, Bensenor I, Bergstrom J, Bikbov B, Blosser C, Brenner H, Carrero JJ, Chadban S, Cirillo M, Cortinovis M, Courville K, Dandona L, Dandona R, Estep K, Fernandes J, Fischer F, Fox C, Gansevoort RT, Gona PN, Gutierrez OM, Hamidi S, Hanson SW, Himmelfarb J, Jassal SK, Jee SH, Jha V, Jimenez-Corona A, Jonas JB, Kengne AP, Khader Y, Khang YH, Kim YJ, Klein B, Klein R, Kokubo Y, Kolte D, Lee K, Levey AS, Li Y, Lotufo P, El Razek HMA, Mendoza W, Metoki H, Mok Y, Muraki I, Muntner PM, Noda H, Ohkubo T, Ortiz A, Perico N, Polkinghorne K, Al-Radaddi R, Remuzzi G, Roth G, Rothenbacher D, Satoh M, Saum KU, Sawhney M, Schöttker B, Shankar A, Shlipak M, Silva DAS, Toyoshima H, Ukwaja K, Umesawa M, Vollset SE, Warnock DG, Werdecker A, Yamagishi K, Yano Y, Yonemoto N, Zaki MES, Naghavi M, Forouzanfar MH, Murray CJL, Coresh J, Vos T; Global Burden of Disease 2013 GFR Collaborators; CKD Prognosis Consortium; Global Burden of Disease Genitourinary Expert Group. Global Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes of Reduced GFR.
J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Jul;28(7):2167-2179. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2016050562. Epub 2017 Apr 13. PMID: 28408440

GBD 2015 Risk Factors Collaborators.. Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet. 2016 Oct 8;388(10053):1659-1724. dos: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31679-8. PMID: 27733284