Gary Briefel, M.D.
Dr. Gary Briefel is the Director of the Division of Nephrology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
Dr. Briefel obtained his medical degree from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1968. His residency and renal fellowship (1972-76) were performed at the Kings County Hospital/Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Division of Renal Medicine at the then Baltimore City Hospitals in 1976. Dr. Briefel is now an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Chief of the Renal Division at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He is also the Medical Director of the JB Zachary Hemodialysis Unit on the Bayview Campus. Dr. Briefel is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology.
Dr. Briefel’s research interests have included endocrine disturbances in renal failure and phosphorus metabolism in dialysis patients. Clinical interests are in the effects of daily and nocturnal hemodialysis.
Dr. Briefel has also been active in the Hopkins’ Institutional Review Board system since 1980 and is Chair of IRB#5, located on the Bayview Campus.
Selected publications:
1. Briefel GR, Tsitouras PD, Harman SM, and Blackman MR: Decreased in vitro testosterone production by isolated Leydig cells from uremic rats. Endocrinology, 110, 976-981, 1982.
2. Blackman MR, Briefel GR, Tsitouras RD, and Harman SM: Excess in vitro secretion of the free alpha subunit of the glycoprotein hormones by pituitary cells from chronically uremic rates. Endocrinology, 110, 1982.
3. Briefel G, and Anderson J. Phosphorus removal with a variable chloride, CO2 acidified dialysate using an unmodified single pass system. ASAIO Journal, 41:1, 111-115, 1995.
