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Behzad Najafian, M.D.
Professor of Laboratory Medicine & pathology
Director Of UWMC Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Director of Renal Pathology Fellowship Program
University of Washington Medical Center
Box 356100
1959 NE Pacific St
Seattle, WA 9195
Education and Training
Renal Pathology Fellowship
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Anatomic Pathology Residency
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Pediatric Nephrology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Medical School
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Tehran, Iran
Research Interests
Diabetic kidney disease
Fabry nephropathy and other complications of Fabry disease
Unbiased quantitative electron microscopy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Najafian B, Svarstad E, Bostad L, Gubler M, Tøndel C, Whitley C, Mauer M. Progressive podocyte injury and globotriaosylceramide (GL-3) accumulation in young patients with Fabry disease. Kidney Int, 79:663-670, 2011
Najafian B, Mauer M. Quantitating endothelial fenestration: An unbiased stereological approach. Am J Nephrol 33 (Suppl 1): 34-39,2011.
Najafian B, Masood A, Malloy P, Alfonso C, Hansen B, Mauer M, Caramori ML. Glomerulopathy in spontaneously obese Rhesus monkeys with type 2 diabetes: A stereological study. Diab Metabol Res Rev 27:341-347, 2011
Toyoda M, Najafian B, Kim Y, Caramori ML, Mauer M. Podocyte detachment and reduced glomerular capillary endothelial fenestration in human type 1 diabetic nephropathy. Diabetes 56:1-7, 2007
Najafian B, Crosson JT, Kim Y, Mauer M. Glomerulotubular junction abnormalities are associated with proteinuria in type 1 diabetes. J Am Soc Nephrol 17 Suppl 2:S53-60, 2006.
Najafian B, Kim Y, Crosson JT, Mauer M: Atubular glomeruli and glomerulotubular junction abnormalities in diabetic nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol 14: 908-917, 2003