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Enjoy a better life and brighter future through kidney disease treatment and research in San Antonio and South Texas

Dr Flavio Alvareze Md

FLAVIO ALVAREZ, M.D.

Dr Alvarez joined Renal Associates in 1999.  He came to San Antonio in 1996 and trained at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio where he completed Fellowship in Nephrology having done residency in Internal Medicine at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri.  He is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology. His practice includes inpatient and outpatient consultative nephrology including management of patients with acute and chronic kidney disease, hypertension, diabetic renal disease, renal transplantation and dialysis. He is fluent in Spanish

Education

MD, Fundacion Escuela Colombiana de Medicina/Universidad El Bosque,  Bogota, Colombia, 1989

Postgraduate Training

Internship in Internal Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994

Residency in Internal Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, 1996

Fellowship, Nephrology, UT Health Science Center San Antonio, 1998

Board Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
American Board Internal Medicine - Nephrology

Medical Directorships

Uvalde Kidney Disease Clinic, BMA of Uvalde

Professional Organizations, Societies

American Society of Nephrology
Bexar County Medical Society
Texas Medical Association

Research Experience

Seok Park, Hideyasu Kiyomoto, Flavio Alvarez, Yu Chen Xu, Sherry L. Abboud, Hanna E. Abboud. Regulation of Insulin Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins During Diabetic Renal Hypertrophy. Submitted for Publication.

Theodore F. Saad, Flavio H. Alvarez, Pablo E. Pergola, Ileana Martinez, Lin Johnson. University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. Placement and Exchange of Tunneled Permanent Venous Catheters (PC) Without Fluoroscopic Guidance. Abstract Submitted to ASN 1998.

Multidose Evaluation of 19 nor-1 alpha, 25 dihydroxy Vitamin D2 in End Stage Renal Disease Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis. Investigator at the UTHSC San Antonio Multicenter Trial Site. 1996.

A Comparison of the Intra and Interpatient Variability of Cyclosporine Pharmacokinetics in Renal Transplant Recipients on Oral Sandimmune and following Conversion to Neoral. Investigator at the UTHSC San Antonio Multicenter Trial Site. 1997.

Flavio H. Alvarez. Dept. of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine. St. Louis, MO. A Case of Acute Portal Vein Thrombosis. Abstract Submitted to the Annual Meeting of the American College of Physicians, Missouri Chapter. 1994.

Flavio H. Alvarez, J. Dallavis, J. O'Brian. Dept. of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine. St. Louis, MO. The role of Methotrexate Therapy in the Management of Patients with Cyclosporine A- Resistant Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Abstract Submitted to the annual Meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. May 19, 1996.

Flavio H. Alvarez, J.C. Escandon, C. Lozano, C. Carvajal. Incidence, Distribution and Outcomes of Trauma Patients treated at the Hospital Simon Bolivar. Fundacion Escuela Colombiana de Medicina. Bogota, Colombia. 1989.

Clinic Locations

Northeast

11481 Toepperwein Road, Suite 1202
San Antonio, Texas 78233
210.655.8470

Uvalde Specialty Clinic

1038 Garner Field Road
Uvalde, Texas 78801
210.655.8470

Affiliated Hospitals

Northeast Baptist

8811 Village Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78217

Uvalde Memorial Hospital

1038 Garner Field Road
Uvalde, Texas 78801

Languages

English
Spanish