Thomas Alan Golper

Biography

Golper was recruited to VUMC as a Professor in 1999. His prior international experience included organizational memberships, being an Honorary Consultant to the UK National Health Service during his role at The European Dialysis and Transplant Registry in London, serving as the secretary of the International Society of Blood Purification and organizing its 1992 meeting. He co-founded the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) Ad Hoc Committee on Peritonitis.
Nationally, he chaired the Peritoneal Dialysis Adequacy Work Group of the Dialysis Outcome Quality Initiative, served on the initial Data Management Committee at the inception of the United States Renal Data System, helped establish what is now Home Dialysis University (HDU), served on the Boards of the Renal Physicians Association and the American Association of Kidney Patients, served as president of the Louisville, Kentucky, chapter of the National Kidney Foundation, served on several committees of the American Society of Nephrology, NIH and FDA, and was chief medical officer of Disease Management Inc.
He was recruited to VUMC to specifically address facility and physician revenue operational issues. He formed and led the Department of Medicine’s Divisional Coding Expert Committee, working closely with the VUMC Office of Compliance. He performed the analyses and then was a leader in the creation of the Vanderbilt East Dialysis Facility. He was assigned to improve upon and grow the Home Dialysis Program.
He hosted the ISPD North American Chapter 2013 meeting. He later received its Zellerman award and became president. In 2017 he became the course director for HDU. He received the Nephrology Division outstanding faculty award 3 times while maintaining a busy nephrology practice.
He was an associate editor of Clinical Nephrology and Blood Purification, section editor in Up To Date and on the review board of many journals.