
^ Grubbs, Vanessa O’Riordan, David Pantilat, Steve ()."The association of periodontal disease with kidney function decline: a longitudinal retrospective analysis of the MrOS dental study". ^ Grubbs, Vanessa Vittinghoff, Eric Taylor, George Kritz-Silverstein, Donna Powe, Neil Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten Ishani, Areef Cummings, Steven R.
^ a b "Vanessa Grubbs, MD | Center for Vulnerable Populations". ^ "Diet and supplements: What's good and bad for kidney disease patients". "Americans' Use of Dietary Supplements That Are Potentially Harmful in CKD". Hedgeman, Elizabeth Saran, Rajiv Saydah, Sharon Rolka, Deborah Powe, Neil R. ^ "History :: Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program". "Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results". ^ a b c d e "Vanessa Grubbs | UCSF Profiles". The book was well received by The New York Times and Kirkus Reviews. It is also a collection of medical histories that covers the 400 years in the build-up of medical dialysis. She donated her own kidney before getting an engagement ring. The book documents other biases she has experienced as a woman of colour. Whilst searching for a kidney, Grubbs learned about the disparities in kidney allocation, where African American patients received only 1 in 5 of donated kidneys despite being 1 in 3 of transplant candidates. The book describes how Grubbs met her husband, Robert Phillips, who had end-stage kidney disease. Grubbs published her first book with Amistad in 2017. She appeared on the cover of the American Society of Nephrology magazine Renal Life in 2018. Grubbs is a non-fiction writer and leads a workshop series for senior medical students in the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved. She studied the outcomes of in-hospital palliative care consultations of patients with renal disease. She is a member of the American Society of Nephrology and serves on the public policy board. Her research focuses on the impact of periodontal disease on kidney function.
She studied the dietary supplements of Americans that are potentially harmful in chronic kidney disease. She is a Harold Amos Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Medical Faculty fellow. In 2012 she was awarded a National Institutes of Health K23 Career Development Award. She completed a nephrology fellowship at UCSF School of Medicine. Grubbs joined the Alameda County Medical Center for her internal medicine residency. She remained at Duke University School of Medicine for medical school. She earned a bachelor's degree at Duke University. Grubbs was born in Spring Lake, North Carolina. She works at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Vanessa Grubbs is a nephrologist and a writer based in Oakland, California. Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital