David Spector, M.D.
Dr. David Spector is an Associate Professor of Medicine at both Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and University of Maryland School of Medicine and is Director of the Nephrology Fellowship training program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and his Renal/Metabolism Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Spector is founder and medical director of several hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis units associated with Hopkins and was previously director of the Division of Renal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and abstracts in the fields of nephrology and renal physiology, is a member of many nephrology societies and organizations and is a Fellow of The American College of Physicians and of The American Society of Nephrology.
Research interests:
Currently include epithelial cell transport, urea metabolism, integrative and comparative physiology, and urinary tract epithelial cell function. Clinical interests include calciphylaxis, renal calculi, fibrosing uremic dermapathy, hyponatremia, and peritoneal dialysis.
Selected Publications:
Spector DA, Wade JB, Dillow R, Steplock DA, and Weinman EJ. Expression, localization, and regulation of aquaporin-1 to -3 in rat urothelia. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 282: F1034-F1042, 2002.
Spector DA, Yang Q, Liu J, and Wade JB. Expression, localization, and regulation of urea transporter B in rat urothelia. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 287: F102-F108, 2004.
Spector DA, Yang Q, and Wade JB. High Urea and Creatinine Concentrations and Urea Transporter-B in Mammalian Urinary Tract Tissues. Am J Physiol, Renal Physiol, in press January 2007.
Cicone JS, Petronis JB, Embert CD, Spector DA. Successful Treatment of Calciphylaxis with IV Sodium Thiosulfate. Am J Kid Dis 43, 6, 1104-1108, 2004.
