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John Agar

Clinician with expertise in dialysis education
GEELONG, Australia

Member since: Feb 24, 2008

Last active on: Oct 02, 2009 at 10:04 AM (EST)

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Teaching Preferences

Online Teaching

Face to Face Teaching

Teaches following Subjects/Exams
Dialysis Patients (Others)
Language of Instruction: English
Dialysis Nurses (Others)
Language of Instruction: English
Teaching Experience

Professor/Director

Renal Services, Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia

Jun 1978 - Present

Topics dialysis


Graduated: Monash University, 1970

Clinical Fellow, U. Mass Medical Centre, USA 1977-1978

Chief of Medicine: Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Victoria, Australia 1992 - 2006

Senior Renal Transplant Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne

Special interests: Extended hour and frequency haemodialysis; Nocturnal home haemodialysis; AV fistula management; ‘Optimal’ versus ‘adequate’ haemodialysis

Especially active in: promoting global expansion of home nocturnal haemodialysis

Member: Clinical Advisory Boards of: Renal Solutions Inc., Pittsburgh, (USA); Fresenius Medical Care (Aust), Sydney, Australia; Baxter Healthcare, Sydney (Aust)

Author: 133 original manuscripts + abstracts, particularly on dialysis including 50 papers on Nocturnal Home Haemodialysis

Author: The #1 on Google, patient-oriented information website for nocturnal home haemodialysis: http://www.nocturnaldialysis.org

Invited speaker on dialysis to many Australian, US, UK, Canadian and Asian meetings

Professional Experience
Examiner
Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australia
Jul 1998 - Present
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Melbourne, Australia
Jan 1996 - Present

Clinical undergraduate and postgraduate lecturer in Renal Medicine

Education

MB, BS

Monash University, Australia

Jan 1965 - Dec 1970

Professional Exams & Certifications

FRACP

Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australia

Year Of Passing: 1978

ECFMG

ECFMG - USA, United States

Year Of Passing: 1976

MB.BS

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Year Of Passing: 1970

Associations & Membership
Royal College of Physicians (Lond) – Elected Fellow
United Kingdom
Sep 2004 - Present
New York Academy of Sciences
New York, United States
Jan 1992 - Present
Kidney Health Australia
Australia
Jan 1980 - Present
Australian Association of Consulting Physicians
Australia
Jan 2000 - Present
Australian Medical Association
Australia
Jan 1975 - Present
European Dialysis and Transplant Association
Australia
Jan 1998 - Present
International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
Australia
Jan 1981 - Present
International Society for Hemodialysis
Australia
Jan 2004 - Present
Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology
Australia
Jan 1976 - Present
International Society of Nephrology
Australia
Jan 1978 - Present
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Australia
Jan 1978 - Present

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Dialysis Education
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