Curriculum Vita (CV)
Wayne Michael Trebbin, M.D.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: May 26, 1946
Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts
Citizenship: Unites States Citizen
EDUCATION
Undergraduate: Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
B.S. - 1968
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
M.D. - 1972
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Internship: Combined Program
Faulkner Hospital-Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 1972-1973
Residency: New England Medical Center Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
First year resident in Physicial
and Rehabilitation Medicine 1973-1974
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Worcester, Massachusetts
First year resident in Internal Medicine
1974-1975
Fellowships: Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Fellowship in Nephrology 1975 - 1977
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND BOARD CERTIFICATION
1977 American Board of Internal Medicine
1984 American Board of Nephrology
1977 Rhode Island License #MD 4278
1973 Massachusetts License # 35595
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1977-1979 Instructor in Medicine
Brown University Program in Medicine
1979-1986 Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brown University Program in Medicine
1986-1991 Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
1988-1990 Physical Diagnosis, Boston University School
of Medicine
1991-present Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Boston University
1993-2006 Coordinator, Tufts University School of Medicine Second Year Physical Diagnosis Course at North Shore Medical Center/Salem Hospital, Salem, Massachusetts
1994-2007 Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
2008-present Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
1995-2009 Director, Clinical Clerkship for Tufts University
School of Medicine Third Year Students in
Internal Medicine at North Shore Medical
Center/Salem Hospital Salem, Mass.
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
1975-1976 Nephrology Consultant to the Clinical
Laboratories Massachusetts General
Hospital
1977-1986 Medical Staff and Nephrology Consultant
Roger Williams General Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island
1977-1986 Coordinator, Hemodialysis Unit
Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
Providence, Rhode Island
1986-1995 Associate Program Director
Internal Medicine Residency Program
North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts
1986-2016 Staff Physician and Nephrology Consultant
North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts
2016- Staff Physician and Nephrology Consultant
North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts: Emeritus
1995-2009 Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital, Salem, Massachusetts
1986-2016 Staff Physician Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital later renamed Spaulding Hospital North, Salem, Massachusetts
1986-1997 Medical Director, Internal Medicine
Clinic, Salem Hospital Salem, Massachusetts
2005- Visiting Consultant in Nephrology and Internal Medicine, Central Hospital University of Yaounde (CHU), Yaounde, Cameroon
2005-2009 Director of WORTH Dialysis unit in CHU, Yaounde, Cameroon
2010-2013 Director of WORTH Dialysis unit at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize.
2110-2013 Director of WORTH Dialysis unit at La Loma Luz Hospital in Belize
HOSPITAL COMMITTEES
ROGER WILLIAMS GENERAL HOSPITAL
1978-1986 Clinical Competency Committee
1978-1986 Intern Selection Committee
1982-1986 Residency Committee
1982-1986 OPD Quality Assurance Committee
NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER-SALEM HOSPITAL
1986-2009 Medical Residency Advisory Committee
1987-1990 IRB Committee
1987-1995 Resource Committee
1990-1993 Credentials Committee (Chairman 1992-1993)
1991-2004 Ethics Committee
1997-2000 Nominating Committee
1999-2009 CME Committee Salem Hospital
2001-2003 Medical Executive Committee
2002-2003 North Shore Medical Center Community
Health Improvement Fund (CHIF)
Committee
2003-2009 Chairman Graduate Medical Education
Committee
2003-2015 Chairman of the Library Committee
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES
1982-1984 Medical Admission Advisory Committee
Brown University Program in Medicine
1983-1986 Chairman, Residency Committee
Brown University
1990-1991 Medical School Admissions Committee
Boston University School of Medicine
1996-2008 Coordinator of the Tufts University School
of Medicine Physical Diagnosis Program at
the North Shore Medical Center/Salem
Hospital
1996-2009 Clerkship Director, Tufts University School
of Medicine Third Year Medical Students,
Internal Medicine North Shore Medical
Center/Salem Hospital
OTHER
1997-2008 Medical Director
Davita-Salem Dialysis Unit
Salem, Massachusetts
2009-Jan 31, 2016 Director of the Peritoneal
Dialysis Program
Davita-Salem Dialysis Unit
Salem, Massachusetts
2005-present Founder and President of WORTH (World Organization of Renal Therapies) a non-profit organization whose mission is to create and run dialysis units in the third world
2006-2010 Essex County South Delegate to the Massachusetts Medical Society
2014-2014 Topic Editor for Dynamed
COMMUNITY COMMITTEES
1978-1979 Special Treatment Services Task Force of the Health Planning Council Committee Special Care Units and Special Treatment Services, Rhode Island
1982-1986 Member of the Board of Directors,
Rhode Island Kidney Foundation
1990-present VOCES (Vigilantes Organizados Contra el
SIDA) Founder of this organization to
modify high-risk behavior for HIV
infection in the Hispanic community of
Salem, MA
2013-2015 Board of Directors of Congregation Shirat
Hyam
2015-2015 Chairman of the Adult Education
Committee for
Congregation Shirat Hyam
MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES
American Society of Nephrology
International Society of Nephrology
Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine
Massachusetts Medical Society
RESEARCH GRANTS
1982-1986 Rhode Island Foundation Grant
Cardiac Ischemia and Function During
Hemodialysis
1984-1986 Catapres-TTS for the treatment of Mild
Hypertension
Boehringer Ingelheim, Ltd.
1985-1989 Nicotine Levels in Renal Failure
The Council for Tobacco Research-
U.S.A., Inc.
$61,784.75
UNIVERSITY TEACHING ROLES
1978-1980 Clinical Pharmacology
Brown University
1978-1986 I.M.S. Nephrology #373
Brown University
1980-1981 Hemodialysis: Living with Disability
Brown University
1982-1984 Renal Phsyiology Lecture
Clinical Section
Brown University
1978-1985 Preceptor-3rd Year Medical Students
Brown University
1984-1986 Coordinator-Medical House staff
Training Program
Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
Providence, Rhode Island
1988-1990 Physical Diagnosis
Boston University School of Medicine
1994-2008 Site Coordinator in Physical Diagnosis
Tufts University School of Medicine
1994-2009 Clerkship Director, Tufts University School
of Medicine, Internal Medicine
Third Year Medical Student at North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital
PUBLICATIONS
1.Trebbin, W.M., Newhouse JH, Whitmore E and Pfister RC. Polycystic Kidneys without radiologic enlargement. Urology. 1978; 11:96-98.
2.Trebbin, W.M., Hemodialysis and Pregnancy. JAMA. 1979; 241:1811-1812.
3.Diskin CJ, Salzsider KH, Solomon RJ, Carvalho JS and Trebbin, W.M. Electroncardiographic changes following dialysis. Nephon 1981; 27: 94-100.
4.Lee AB, Waffle CM, Trebbin, WM and Solomon RJ. Clostridial myonecrosis from an obturator hernia in a dialysis patient. JAMA.1981; 246: 1232-1233.
5.Kaye WA, Griffiths WC, Camara PD, Trebbin, WM, Solomon RJ and Diamond I. The significance of B2 microglobulinuria associated with gentamicin therapy. Ann Clin Lab Si. 1981; 11:530-537.
6.McCullough L, Cantara A, Solomon RJ and Trebbin, WM, Treatment Phantom urinary symptoms in hemodialysis patients. Arch Phys Med & Rehab. 1982; 63:443-444.
7.Galligan ED and Trebbin, WM, Intensified ambulatory chronic peritoneal dialysis. Comptemp Dialysis. 1983; 4:13-17
8.Ott BR, Libbey NP, Ryter RJ and Trebbin, WM, Treatment of schistosome induced glomerulonephritis. A case report and review of the literature. Arch Int med. 1983; 143:1477-1479.
9.Weinreb W, Steinfeld A, Rodil J, Esparza A and Trebbin, WM. leimyosarcoma arising in an arterial-venous fistula. Cancer.1983;52:390-392.
10.Gelber CM, Diskin CJ, Claunch BC, Spraragen SC, LaBresh KA, Royal HD, Solomon RJ, Carvalho JS and Trebbin, W.M. Thallium-201 myocardial imaging in patients on chronic hemodialysis. Nephron. 1984; 36:136-142.
11.Perry RJ, Griffiths W, Dextraze P, Solomon RJ and Trebbin, W.M. Elevated nicotine levels in hemodialysis patients: a role in cardiovascular mortality and morbidity? Am J of Med. 1984; 76:241-246.
12.Singhal PC, Perry RJ, Susset J and Trebbin, WM. Central diabetes insipidus associated with neurogenic bladder. Hosp. Prac. 1984; 19:244-246.
13.Trebbin, WM, Galligan ED and Cline N. In-hospital self-dialysis system. Dialysis and Transplantation Vol. 14, Number 9, November 1985.
14.Weinberg MS, Trebbin, WM, and Solomon RJ. Urinary Kiniogen: a possible regulator of kinin formation in normal individuals and subjects with essential hypertension, end-state renal and liver disease. Adv Exp Med Biol 1986;198 Pt A: 119-125.
15.Lally EV, Kaplan SR, Susset JG, Trebbin, WM, Klutz WS and Cohen SL. Pathologic involvement of the urinary bladder in progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS). Thae Journal of Rheumatology 12:4 1985 P778-781.
16.Weinberg M, Belknap S, Trebbin, WM and Solomon RJ. Effects of changing salt and water balance on renal kallikrein, kininogen and kinin. Kidney International. Volume 31, Number 3, March 1987, P836-841.
17.Isensee L, Solomon R, Weinberg M, Griffiths W, Camara P, Trebbin, WM, Digoxin Levels in Dialysis Patients, Hospital Physician, Volume 24, No.6, June 1988, P50-52.
18.Solomon R, Azar P, Trebbin, WM, Weinberg MS. The Kallikrein-Kininogen-Kinin System in Patients with Liver Disease and Ascites. Nephron 50:39-44 (1988).
19.Weinberg MS, Blonsky S, Kilker JD, Galligan E, Trebbin, WM, and Solomon RJ. Reduction of hyperlipidemia in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Dialysis and Transplantation, Vol. 17, Number 9, September 1988, PP 478-480.
20.Trebbin, WM, Medical Ward Teams That Cover Medical Critical Care Units Versus Separate Teams. (Letter to the Editor) Journal of Intensive Care Medicine - Vol.4, No.1 - January - February 1989 PP 46-47.
21.Bhat S, Fisher M, Neff C, Trebbin, WM. Sonographic Pseudokidney After Nephrectomy, Urologic Radiology - 12:94-95 (1990).
22.Dawood M, Trebbin, WM. Complications Associated with Central Venous Cannulation, Hospital Practice, June 15, 1991, PP 211-219.
23.Glen S. Markowitz, Jen-Tse Cheng, Robert B. Colvin, Trebbin, WM. and Vivette D.Agati. Hepatitis C Viral Infection is Associated with Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis and Immunotactoid Glomerulpathy. J Am Soc Nephrol 9: 2244-2252, 1998.
24.Raj, A, Trebbin, W, Ravula R, Brundavanam, H. Sclerosis of Large Renal Cyst with Improved Hypertension: Case Report. The Internet Journal of Nephrology, vol 3, number 2, 2006
25.Trebbin, W.M, Dialysis in Africa, Worcester Medicine, vol 71, number 3, May/June 2007
26.Trebbin, W.M, Monteleone, P. Dialysis in Africa: A Personal Perspective on a Demonstration Project in Cameroon, American Journal of Kidne Diseases vol 50, No 5, (November), 2007: 880-884.
27.Nephrotic-Range Proteinuria Without Extensive Glomerular Disease American Journal of Kidney Diseases, vol 53, Issue 5, pp: A33-A34, May 2009.
ABSTRACTS
Kaye WA, Griffiths W, Trebbin, WM, Solomon RJ and Diamond I.
The association of B2 microglobulinuria with gentamicin therapy. Presented at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry Meeting, July 1979.
Kaye WA, Griffiths W, Trebbin, WM, Solomon RJ and Diamond I.
Gentamicin induces B2 microglobulinuria. Clinical Research. Presented at Eastern Section AFCR 27:600A, 1979.
Kaye WA, Griffiths W, Trebbin, WM, Solomon RJ and Diamond I.
Gentamicin induces B2 microglobulinuria. 12th Annual Meeting American Society of Nephrology, Boston, p. 153A, 1979.
Perry RJ, Griffiths W, Dextraze P, Solomon RJ, and Trebbin, WM.
Elevated nicotine levels in hemodialysis patients: A role in cardiovascular mortality? 16th Annual Meeting American Society of Nephrology, Washington, D.C., p. 52A, 1983.
Kolker JD, Galligan E, Trebbin, WM, Solomon RJ, Herbert PN, and
Weinberg MS. Reduction of hyperlipidemia in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Third International Symposium on Peritoneal Dialysis Bulletin. 1984; 4.
Weinberg MS, St. Martin Ca, Trebbin, WM, and Solomon RJ.Urokininogen: A possible regulatory of kinin formation. Presented at the International Congress of Kinins, Savannah, Georgia, 1984.
Lally EV, Klutz WS, Kaplan SR, Trebbin, WM, Cohen SL and Susset JG.
Lower urinary tract involvement in progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS). Clin Res 32:663A, 1984.
PRESENTATIONS (GRAND ROUNDS, SYMPOSIA, SPECIAL LECTURES)
Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis. Veterans Administration Medical
Center, Providence, RI, April 1978.
Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis. Roger William General Hospital,
Providence, RI, August, 1978.
Edema. Roger Williams General Hospital, Providence, RI, November 1978.
The medical management of non-emergent hypertension.
Zambarano Hospital, Wallum Lake, RI, March, 1979.
The medical management of non-emergent hypertension.
St. Vincent’s Hospital, Bridgeport, Connecticut, November, 1979.
Pregnancy and the kidney. Women and Infants Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, March, 1980.
Hypertension. Lecture given to URI Nurse Practitioner Students
Kingstown, Rhode Island, October, 1980.
Primary aldosteronism. Roger Williams General Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, February, 1981.
Primary aldosteronism. Veterans Administration Medical Center
Providence, Rhode Island, September, 1981.
Hypertension in the Elderly. Norwood Hospital
Norwood, Massachusetts, October, 1983.
Hypertension in the Elderly. Veterans Administration Center
North Hampton, Massachusetts, November, 1983.
Hypertension in the Elderly. Beyer Hospital
Ypsilanti, Michigan, February, 1984.
Hypertension in the Elderly. Foote Hospital
Jackson, Michigan, February, 1984.
Hypokalemia. Salem Hospital, Salem, Massachusetts, October, 1986.
Hypertension in the Elderly. Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts, October, 1986.
Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts, July, 1987.
Continuous Arteriovenous Hemofiltration. Salem Hosptial
Salem, Massachusetts, February, 1989.
Participant in CPC as Grand Rounds at Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts, Discussed ATN, November 4, 1994.
AIDS and the Hispanic Community. Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts, April 21, 1995.
Nephrology for the Primary Care Doctor. Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts, March 13, 1998.
Partners Renal Symposium. Salem Hospital
Salem, Massachusetts, October 2, 2000.
WORTH World Organization of Renal Therapies A Potential International Bridge for Delivery of Renal and Cardiac Management in Cameroon, Poster Session, Trebbin, WM, Kirdar, J 7th International Congress of Coronary Artery Disease, Venice, Italy. October 8, 2007
DIALYSIS IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA ‘WORTH’ THE EFFORT Uma R.K Pakkivenkata, Carolyn Mcteague, Maurice Nkam, James E Stahl, Wayne M Trebbin American Society of Nephrology. Poster Session. 2008
Dialysis in Cameroon: High Tech in the Developing World, Harvard School of Public Health, April 30, 2008.
Grand Rounds: Dialysis in the Developing World. Transplant Unit. Lahey Clinic. June 18. 2009.
Grand Rounds: Dialysis in the Third World…Not Mission Impossible. Salem Hospital. April 23, 2010.
Grand Rounds: Dialysis in the Third World…Not Mission Impossible. Union Hospital May 12, 2010.
Special Grand Rounds: Complications of Non-Compliance of Dialysis Patients. Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize. August 7, 2011
Grand Rounds: Dialysis. Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize. August 8, 2011
Grand Rounds: Update on WORTH. North Shore Medical Center Salem Hospital. November 4, 2011.
Presentation of WORTH at the Second Mesoamerican Congress / 30th Annual International Congress in Belize November 11, 2011
Grand Rounds: WORTH and the Delivery of Dialytic Care in Developing Countries. Union Hosptial March 21, 2012
Presentation of WORTH to Mgmt E-3040 Writing for PR and Marketing. Graduate level Harvard May 3, 2012.
Success of Inter-continental Telemedicine Hemodialysis Centers in Developing Countries, Smita Jha MD, Carolyn McTeague RN, Thomas Krahn MD and Wayne Trebbin MD. Presentation at the North American Society for Dialysis and Transplantation (NASDAT), Mauii, Hawaii, July 23, 2012.
Dialysis in the Developing World and Telemedicine, Pediatric Grand Rounds, North Shore Medical Center October 23, 2012
WORTH: Dialysis in the Developing World. Lecture given to the Transplant Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital, February 15, 2013
Grand Rounds: Update on WORTH. North Shore Medical Center-Union Hospital, May 13, 2015
AWARDS AND HONORS
Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Teaching
Tufts University School of Medicine
Third Year Clerkship 1997-1998, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003,
2006-2007
Named 2010 Community Clinician of the Year by the Essex South District Medical Society. (The Community Clinician of the Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts Medical Society to recognize a physician from each of the Society's 20 district medical societies who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the community and who stands out as a leading advocate and caregiver.)
Member of the Royal Court of the Bali tribe in Bamenda, Cameroon by appointment of the Fon at rank of Sama.
MISCELLANEOUS
1.) Visiting Faculty, MKSAP Course in Nephrology
Newport, Rhode Island, August, 1983.
2.) Administrator of the “Read Family Trust Fellowship in Public
Health at Harvard University Mentored by Wayne Trebbin, M.D.”
which is a grant to obtain a master’s degree in public health
awarded to meritorious physicians at the North Shore Medical
Center/Salem Hospital and in the North Shore
community 2003-2009.
3.) The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver Award:
Honorable Mention, 2007.
INTERESTS AND SPECIAL SKILLS
Second-degree black belt and instructor in karate.
Sailing.
Downhill skiing.
In line skating.
Pencil sketching.
Sculpting.
Fluent in Spanish
Author of the novel Bruja
Author of the novel From Ancient Shadows
Author of Moonlight and Quicksand A Book of Poetry
Author of The Sound of Silent Songs A Book of Poetry
Member of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire