Terry J. Watnick MD

Dr. Watnick is a graduate of the Yale School of medicine and trained in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She completed both clinical and research fellowships in nephrology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. During her research training, she became interested in inherited kidney diseases and specifically in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). She has been involved in both basic and clinical research related to polycystic kidney disease.

Her laboratory has been studying the vascular phenotype that is associated with PKD1/2 mutations in humans and in mice. She directs an inherited renal disease clinic and has served as the site principal investigator for several clinical trials testing therapies in patients with ADPKD. She is also the Principal Investigator for a PKD Center of excellence that is one of 4 P30 Core centers funded by the NIH/NIDDK.