Bekir Tanriover, M.D.

Education:

M.D., Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine
Ankara, Turkey

Internship/Residency:

Internal Medicine, Tulane University Medical School
New Orleans, Louisiana

Fellowship:

Nephrology: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
Renal Transplantation: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Board Certified:

Internal Medicine, Nephrology

Appointments:

Liver Transplant Select Committee

Methodist Hospital

Memberships:

American College of Physicians;  American Society of Nephrology, International Society of Nephrology, American Society of Transplantation, Turkish Nephrology Association

Publications:

Ramanathan,V., Goral, S., Tanriover, B., Feurer, I., Kazancioglu, R., Shaffer, D., Helderman, J. Screening Asymptomatic Diabetic Patients for Coronary Artery Disease Prior to Renal Transplantation. Transplantation 2005; 10:1453-1458.

Tanriover, B., Chuang, P., Fishbach, B., Helderman, J., Kizilisik, T., Nylander, W., Shaffer, D. and Langone, A. Polyclonal Antibody-Induced Serum Sickness in Renal Transplant Recipients: Treatment with Therapeutic Plasma Exchange. Transplantation 2005; 80:279-281.

Tanriover B, Gusy-Woodford L.M. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) - Based Genome Scan for a Novel Glomerulocystic Kidney Disease (GCKD) Locus. J Am Soc Nephrol 11: 399A, 2000

Tanriover B, Carlton D, Allon M. Bacteremia Associated with Tunneled Dialysis Catheters: Comparison of Two Treatment Strategies. Kidney Int 57: 2151-55, 2000

Tanriover B, Carlton D, Allon M. Treatment Options for Bacteremia Associated Abstract with Tunneled-Cuffed Venous Hemodialysis Catheters, J Am Soc Nephrol 10: 219A, 1999

Tanriover B, Tuncer S, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Its Genetic. Turkish Journal of Biology: 21: 505-514, 1997

Tanriover B, The role of the Helicobacter pylori in the Pathogenesis of Gastric Lymphoma. Turkish Journal of Hematology and Oncology 5(1): 44-47, 1995

Taniyuksel M, Erguven S, Tanriover B, Comparison of the Serologic Tests (IFA, ELISA) with Microscopy Using for the Diagnosis of Amoebosis. Turkis Journal of Parasitology 19 (4): 476-482, 1995

Currently at DNA:

South Oak Cliff Dialysis Center, Dallas, Texas