Culpepper to address chronic kidney disease at medicine grand rounds

Michael Culpepper, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine and a nephrologist with USA Health, will present at the next medicine grand rounds. His lecture, "Management of CKD: Opportunities for the Internist," is set for 8 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, at USA Health University Hospital in the second-floor conference center.

Culpepper will identify targets for treatment by internists in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), including drugs for diabetes and hypertension in early CKD that ameliorate progression of CKD, introducing nutritional concepts in early CKD that provide adequate and appropriate protein and energy input, and monitoring for inflammation and other impediments to adequate iron utilization and red blood cell production.

Medicine grand rounds take place Thursdays at 8 a.m. For more information, contact Linda Ching at (251) 471-7900 or lching@health.southalabama.edu.