Vesa Matti Vehaskari, MD, PhD

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	Vesa Matti Vehaskari, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatrics Children's Hospital 200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: (504) 896-9238 Fax: (504) 896-9240 vvehas@lsuhsc.edu
Degrees	MD - 1969 University of Helsinki Medical School, Helsinki, Finland PhD - 1981 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Bio	Internship, Children's Hospital & General Hospital, University of Helsinki,1969-1970 Residency, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki 1971-1974 Fellowship, Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, 1975-1978 Pediatric Nephrology Visiting Fellowship, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, 1978 LKT (=Ph.D.), University of Helsinki, 1981 Fellowship, Pediatric Nephrology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1979-1982
Research Interests	Renal development Hypertension
Additional Info	Publications at PubMed

Professor of Pediatrics