Renal Pathology: Contact Information

Consultation and Interpretation

Charles Alpers, M.D.
Phone: 206.598.6409
E-mail: calp@uw.edu

Forms Required

Pathology Consult/Review Service Request Form

And one of the following:

• Renal Transplant Biopsy Requisition Form
• Native Kidney Biopsy Requisition Form

Tissue Handling/Shipping

All specimens should be sent to the address below and should be accompanied by the forms listed above.

Attention: Renal Biopsy Services
UW Medical Center - Montlake, Anatomic Pathology, Box 356100
1959 NE Pacific Street, BB-220
Seattle, WA 98195
206.598.6400

Service Delivery

To deliver the best service possible, we need to have you provide relevant history forms with the submitted renal biopsies. Most importantly, we need up to date contact information for reaching you or contact information for those physicians who provide your coverage after business hours. We make every effort not to disturb you unnecessarily, but we need to be able to reach you with emergent diagnoses such as crescentic glomerulonephritis and/or transplant rejection and/or infection whenever such diagnoses are established. Please let us know if your office or personal telephone numbers and/or pagers have changed, so we many update our internal directories.

Technical Laboratory Assistance

Questions and requests regarding renal biopsy fixatives and histology related technical service requests should be directed to the Histology Lab.

Histology Lab
Renal Technician
Phone: 206.598.4028
Fax: 206.598.8049

Questions and requests regarding electron microscopy should be directed to Jennifer Swicord, Interim Supervisor.

Jennifer Swicord
Electron Microscopy Lab
Phone: 206.598.6411
Fax: 206.598.8049
email: jenwatt@uw.edu

Electron Microscopy Laboratory

The Electron Microscopy Laboratory is located in University of Washington Medical Center Room NW-279. View information about the lab and members of the lab.