Dr. Dean C. Preddie

Dr. Dean C. Preddie is a board certified general and interventional nephrologist with Azura Vascular Care in New York, NY and a Dialysis Management and Quality Improvement Consultant. Dr. Preddie earned both his masters and medical degrees at Washington University in St. Louis in 1999 and completed Internal Medicine residency training at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in 2002. After completing subspecialty training in Nephrology at Columbia University in New York City in 2004, he joined their faculty as an assistant professor of clinical medicine, specializing in glomerular diseases, hypertension, critical care, as well as acute and chronic dialysis management. Committed to improving vascular access options for his dialysis patients, Dr. Preddie underwent interventional training with Dr. Gregg A. Miller, an expert in dialysis vascular access care in 2008 at American Access Care, LLC. He continued to hone his skills with Dr. Miller while maintaining his clinical responsibilities at Columbia University before accepting the invitation to join FVC full-time in 2012 to direct the Interventional Nephrology Training Program at their Brooklyn office, and then their Manhattan Office in 2020. Dr. Preddie specializes in all areas of dialysis access management including access surveillance, fistulogram, angioplasty, fistula maturation, thrombolysis / thrombectomy, vessel mapping, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis catheter placement / repair, as well as minimally-invasive techniques to treat conventional steal syndrome, palmar arch steal syndrome, central venous stenosis / occlusion. Dr. Preddie also offers expert consultation in dialysis management and quality improvement as well as home hemodialysis therapies for organizations seeking to expand or improve their dialysis service lines. Dr. Preddie continues to teach and maintain an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Columbia University Division of Nephrology.

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