Dr. Nickolas is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. Dr. Nickolas received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and in Nephrology at Columbia University. His primary interests are in the skeletal effects of kidney diseases. His lab focuses on redefining our understanding of and approach to bone disease in adults and children with kidney failure. He uses advanced and novel methods to phenotype the characteristics of bone and mineral diseases in CKD patients.