Associate Professor

John Arthur , M.D., Ph.D is Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.  He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degree from the University of Iowa. He received additional training in internal medicine and nephrology at Duke University.  He has been on the MUSC faculty since 2001.  He is the director of the Nephrology service and the director of dialysis at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center.  He is the Director of the Renal Disease Biomarkers Center of Economic Excellence (SmartState Program) and the director of the CTSA biorepository.  His research program is funded by both the NIH and the VA and is focused upon biomarker discovery and qualification in renal diseases.  He uses both targeted approaches and proteomic analysis to characterize novel biomarkers.  The two major ongoing research projects are identifying biomarkers that predict prognosis in patients with acute kidney injury and patients with diabetic nephropathy.  He is also the director fo the MUSC CTSA biorepository where is he responsible for coordination of the informatic, ethical, technical and scientific aspects of the biorepository.  His clinical areas of expertise are acaute kidney injury and acid-base and electrolyte abnormalities. 

Dr. John Arthur's Curriculum Vitae (*PDF Format)

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