Keri Drake, MD

Dr. Keri Drake is a Pediatric Nephrologist at UT Southwestern and Children’s Medical Center Dallas. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School, completed her pediatric training at the University of Minnesota, and was a fellow in pediatric nephrology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. During her fellowship, Dr. Drake participated in the Pediatric Scientist Development Program, which provided mentorship and grant support for her research in renal development. Her work was recognized with the Fellows Basic Science Research Award from the Society of Pediatric Research and the American Society for Pediatric Nephrology Fellow Research Award. Additionally, she received the Mallinkcrodt Fellowship Research Award, which provided grant support for an independent project examining proximal tubule regeneration. Dr. Drake is continuing her research at UT Southwestern, with the goal of improving the understanding and treatment of kidney diseases caused by disruptions in normal development.

Curriculum vitae

Date Prepared:	September 9, 2022
Name:	Keri Drake, MD
Office Address:	5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, G3.228, Dallas, Texas 75390
Work Phone:	214-648-2644
Work E-Mail:	Keri.Drake@UTSouthwestern.edu
Work Fax:	214-648-2034
Place of Birth:	Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Education

Year

Degree

(Honors)

Field of Study

(Thesis advisor for PhDs)

Institution

2001 - 2005

Biology

Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, MN

2006 - 2010

Medical School

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

Postdoctoral Training

Year(s)

Titles

Specialty/Discipline

(Lab PI for postdoc research)

Institution

2010 - 2013

Residency

Pediatrics

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

2013 - 2017

Fellowship

Pediatric Nephrology

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Current Licensure and Certification

Licensure: Texas (2017-present); Ohio (2013-2017); Minnesota (2010-2013)

Board and Other Certification: American Board of Pediatrics (2014), Pediatric Nephrology (2018)

Honors and Awards

Year	Name of Honor/Award	Awarding Organization
2018 - 2021	NIH Loan Repayment Program	NIH
2017	Fellow Research Presentation Award	American Society for Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN); San Francisco, CA
2016	Fellows Basic Research Award	Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS); Baltimore, MD
2015 - 2017	NIH Loan Repayment Program	NIH
2015	Arnold W. Strauss Fellow Award	Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
2015, 2012	Travel Award	American Society for Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN)
2013 - 2017	PSDP Fellow	Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP)
2010	Research Honors	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
2007	Best Student Presentation Award	Midwest Society for Pediatric Research
2007	Shapiro Excellence in Student Research Award	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Faculty Academic Appointments

Year(s)	Academic Title	Department	Academic Institution
2017 – 2019	Instructor	Pediatric Nephrology	UT Southwestern
2019 – Present	Assistant Professor	Pediatric Nephrology	UT Southwestern

Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions: None

Other Professional Positions

Year(s)	Position Title	Institution
2005 - 2006	Research technician; Pediatric Infectious Disease	University of Minnesota

Major Administrative/Leadership Positions: None

Committee Service: ASPN Resident/Student Program Committee (2019 – present), ASPN Workforce Committee (2019 – present), ASPN Research Committee (2019 – present), ASPN/PAS Planning Committee (2021 – 2022), ASPN Acute Care Nephrology Interest Group (2022 – present)

Professional Societies

Dates	Society Name, member
2012 – Present	American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN)
2017 – Present	International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA)
2022 – Present	American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

Grant/Scientific Review Activities:

- Reviewed manuscript for publication in Scientific Reports (April 2021)

- Reviewed manuscript for publication in the Journal of Pediatrics (May 2021)

- Reviewed manuscript for publication in Genomics (June 2021)

- Reviewed manuscript for publication in the JCI Insights (January 2022)

- Reviewed manuscript for publication in the Journal of Clinical Medicine (March 2022)

Editorial Activities:

- Member of the Editorial Board of Pediatric Nephrology as Review Editor for Frontiers in Pediatrics (June 2021 – Present)

Grant Support

Present	Grantor: NIH NIDDK K08 Career Development Award (DK131258)
	Title of Project: Wilms tumor 1 (Wt1) mutation reveals mechanisms of cell lineage crosstalk in the developing kidney
	Role (Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator): Principal Investigator
	Annual amount and date (direct costs only): $168,879 (August 1, 2022 – May 31, 2023)
	Total amount of award (if multi-year) and dates (direct costs only): $466,500 (August 1, 2022 – July 31, 2025)

Past	Grantor: CTSA Pilot Grant Program at UT Southwestern
	Title of Project: Transcriptomic profiling of Wilms tumors with WT1 mutations
	Role (Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator): Principal Investigator
	Total amount and date (direct costs only): $50,000 (February 4, 2022 – April 30, 2022)

	Grantor: Children’s Clinical Research Advisory Committee (CCRAC) Early Career Research Award
	Title of Project: Roles of YAP/TAZ in the Developing Kidney
	(Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator): Principal Investigator
	Annual amount and date (direct costs only): $150,000 (September 1, 2018 – September 30, 2020; NCE through December 31, 2021)
	Total amount of award (if multi-year) and dates (direct costs only): $300,000 (September 1, 2019 – December 31, 2021)

	Grantor: Kidney Cancer SPORE CEP (Career Enhancement Program)
	Title of Project: Defining the cell type(s) of origin in Wilms Tumor
	Role (Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator): Principal Investigator
	Annual amount and date (direct costs only): $25,000 (August 1, 2018 – July 30, 2019)

	Grantor: Pediatric Scientist Development Program
	Title of Project: Hox Genes in the Developing Kidney
	Role (Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator): Co-Investigator
	Annual amount and date (direct costs only): $106,250
	Total amount of award (if multi-year) and dates (direct costs only): $303,000 (July, 1 2014 – June 30, 2017)

	Grantor: Center for Pediatric Genomics (CpG), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
	Title of Project: Genetics of Hepatoblastoma and Congenital Kidney Disease
	Role (Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator): Co-Investigator
	Annual amount and date (direct costs only): $80,000
	Total amount of award (if multi-year) and dates (direct costs only): $80,000 (February 15, 2015 – February 15, 2017)

	Grantor: Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
	Title of Project: Single cell RNA seq of Proximal Tubules in Repair and Regeneration
	Role (Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator): PI
	Annual amount and date (direct costs only): $80,000
	Total amount of award (if multi-year) and dates (direct costs only): $80,000 (September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2016)

Clinical Trials Activities: None

Teaching Activities:

- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Student Mentor (6/4/18 – 8/10/18 and 6/3/19 – 8/8/19)

- Fellow Didactic Lecture Series: Renal Development (10/11/17)

- Multidisciplinary Case Conference Presentation: Joubert syndrome (2/27/17)

- Multidisciplinary Case Conference Presentation: Wilms tumor (9/17/19)

- Clinical Fellow Scholarship Oversight Committee (SOC) Member for Pediatric Nephrology Fellows –

A. Mashmoushi (1/1/20 – 6/30/21), S. Banihani (1/1/22 – present); A. Clark (1/1/22 – present)

- Resident Nephrology Service Teaching Sessions (1/1/20 – Present)

- Fellow Lecture Series: CAKUT and Renal Development (11/22/17)

- Resident Lecture Series: Fluids and Electrolytes (7/29/20)

- Fellow Lecture Series: CKD (8/17/20)

- Fellow Lecture Series: AKI (10/21/20, 7/22/22)

- Fellow Lecture Series: Neonatal Nephrology – Part 1 (3/31/21, 2/25/22)

- Fellow Lecture Series: Neonatal Nephrology – Part 2 (5/19/21)

- Resident Lecture Series: Genitourinary Anomalies (9/20/21)

- Multidisciplinary Case Conference Presentation: Lupus and Thrombotic Microangiopathy (3/1/22)

- Medical Student Lecture: Childhood Disorders of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (4/7/22)

- Fellow Seminar: Advances in Pediatric Acute Renal Replacement Therapies (7/14/22)

Invited Lectures:

- UTSW Pediatric Research Retreat: Signaling networks in the renal stroma – the role of YAP/TAZ

(6/16/18)

- UTSW SPORE Conference: Beta-catenin signaling in Wilms tumor (6/10/19)

- UTSW New Faculty Research Forum: Signaling pathways in the renal stroma (10/13/20)

- Kidney Cancer Research Summit: Defining the role of beta-catenin in Wilms tumor (10/22/20)

- ASPN/PAS Urine in the Know Session: Stromal beta-catenin in Wilms tumor (5/24/21)

- UTSW Pediatric Research Retreat: Roles of Renal Development Genes in Wilms Tumor (4/26/22)

- UTSW Hamon Center Conference: Investigating Cellular Crosstalk in Kidney Development and Wilms Tumor (6/2/22)

- 11^th International Pediatric Renal Tumors meeting in Marseille, France (9/9/22)

Technological and Other Scientific Innovations: None

Service to the Community

Year(s)

Role

Organization or institution

2020 - present	Community Garden Volunteer	Coppell Community Garden
Volunteer planting/harvesting vegetable plots, with produce donated to a local food bank
2015-2016, 2019-2022	Student/resident mentor	ASPN/PAS
Served as a student/resident mentor at the annual PAS meeting to foster interest in pediatric nephrology
2021, 2022	Kidney Cancer District Days Advocate	KidneyCAN
Met with Texas legislature members over 2 days to advocate for kidney cancer research funding
2010	Medical volunteer	Hillside Clinic
As a medical student, I volunteered for 4 weeks at an international health clinic in Punta Gorda, Belize
2007	Medical volunteer	University of Wisconsin
Participated in a medical service trip to the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico
2005 - 2006	Medical volunteer	University of Wisconsin
Volunteered in a free mental health clinic during medical school

Bibliography

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Original Research Articles

	Drake KA, Chaney CP, Patel M, Das A, Bittencourt J, Cohn M, Carroll TJ. (2022). Transcription Factors YAP/TAZ and SRF Cooperate To Specify Renal Myofibroblasts in the Developing Mouse Kidney. JASN; online ahead of print [PMID 35918150]
	Chaney CP, Drake KA, Carroll TJ. (2022). Integration of multiple, diverse methods to identify biologically significant marker genes. Journal of Molecular Biology; 434(19):167754 [PMID: 35868363]
	Benoit SW, Fukuda T, VandenHeuval K, Witte D, Fuller C, Willis J, Dixon B, Drake KA. (2022). Case Report: Atypical HUS Presenting with Acute Rhabdomyolysis Highlights the Need for Individualized Eculizumab Dosing. Front Pediatr. 10:841051 [PMID: 35281224]
	Drake KA, Chaney CP, Das A, Roy P, Kwartler CS, Rakheja D, Carroll TJ. (2020). Stromal activation of beta-catenin in the developing kidney impacts nephron progenitor differentiation and may contribute to Wilms tumor. Development. 147(21):dev189597 [PMID: 32541007]
	England AR, Chaney CP, Das A, Patel M, Malewsak A, Armendariz D, Hon G, Strand D, Drake KA, Carroll TJ. (2020). Identification and characterization of cellular heterogeneity within the developing renal interstitium. Development. 147(15):dev190108 [PMID: 32586976]
	Rudman-Melnick V, Adam M, Potter A, Chokshi SM, Ma Q, Drake KA, Schuh M, Kofron JM, Devarajan P, Potter SS. (2020). Single-Cell Profiling of AKI in a Murine Model Reveals Novel Transcriptional Signatures, Profibrotic Phenotype, and Epithelial-to-Stromal Crosstalk. JASN. 12;2793-2814 [PMID 33115917]
	Drake KA, Ellington N, Gattineni J, Torrealba JR, Hendricks AR. (2020). Clinicopathological features of C3 glomerulopathy in children: a single center experience. Pediatric Nephrology. Pediatr Nephrol. 35,153–162 [PMID: 31667615]
	Potter AS, Drake K, Brunskill EW, Potter SS. (2019). A bigenic mouse model of FSGS reveals perturbed pathways in podocytes, mesangial cells and endothelial cells. PLoS One. 14(8):e0216261. [PMID: 31461442]
	Drake KA, Adam M, Mahoney R, Potter SS. (2018). Disruption of Hox9,10,11 function results in cellular level lineage infidelity in the kidney. Scientific Reports. 8(1):6306 [PMID: 29679048]
	Pleasant L, Ma Q, Siroky B, Devarajan M, Parameshwaran P, Drake K, Shay-Winkler K, Robbins J, Devarajan P. (2017). Increased susceptibility to structural acute kidney injury in a mouse model of presymptomatic cardiomyopathy. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 313(3):F699-F705 [PMID: 28679593]
	Drake KA, Nehus E, Goebel J. (2015). Hyponatremia, hypoosmolality, and seizures in children early post-kidney transplant. Pediatric Transplantation. 19(7):698-703. [PMID: 26299753]
	Drake KA, Najera L, Reed RC, Verghese PS. (2013). Unusual presentations of BK virus infections in pediatric renal transplant recipients. Pediatric Transplantation. 17(1):E9-15. [PMID: 23171066]
	Drake KA, Sauerbry MJ, Blohowiak SE, Kling PJ. (2009). Iron deficiency and renal development in the newborn rat. Pediatric Research. 66(6):619-24. [PMID: 19730160]

Reviews, Chapters, Monographs and Editorials:

Drake, K. (2022). Updates in the Management of Antenatal Hydronephrosis—from Current Practices to On-going Challenges. Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40746-021-00233-8

Drake KA, Fessler AR, Carroll TJ. (2019). Methods for renal lineage tracing: In vivo and beyond. Methods Cell Biol. 154:121-143. [PMID: 31493814]

Books/Textbooks: None

Letters to the Editor: None

Proceedings of Meetings: None

Clinical Practice Guidelines: None

Non-peer reviewed scientific or medical publications/materials in print or other media:

	Drake KA, Chaney CP, Das A, Roy P, Kwartler CS, Rakheja D, Carroll TJ. (2020). Stromal activation of beta-catenin in the developing kidney impacts nephron progenitor differentiation and may contribute to Wilms tumor. Oral presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) and American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN) Annual Meeting. Virtual, May 2021.
	Drake KA, Chaney CP, Das A, Roy P, Kwartler CS, Rakheja D, Carroll TJ. Defining the role of beta-catenin in Wilms tumor. Oral presentation at the Kidney Cancer Research Summit (KidneyCAN). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Virtual), October 2020.
	Drake KA, Chaney C, Das A, Carroll T. Signaling Networks in the Renal Stroma – The Role of YAP/TAZ. Poster presentation at Rebuilding a Kidney (RBK) Meeting, Bethesda, MD, December 2019.
	Lee L, Patel M, Chaney C, Carroll T, Drake KA. Intra-renal renin-angiotensin signaling effects in early kidney development. Poster presentation at Vanderbilt Summer Research Conference, Nashville, TN, August 2019.
	Drake KA, Chaney C, Das A, Carroll T. Stromal YAP/TAZ signaling non-autonomously regulates NPCs and the renal microvasculature. Poster presentation at Rebuilding a Kidney (RBK) Meeting, Bethesda, MD, June 2019.
	Drake KA, Chaney C, Das A, Carroll T. Signaling Networks in the Renal Stroma – The Role of YAP/TAZ. Poster presentation at Rebuilding a Kidney (RBK) Meeting, Bethesda, MD, December 2018.
	Benoit SW, Drake KA, Fukuda T, Dixon BP. Ideal Clinical Outcome and Potential Cost Savings with Individualized Eculizumab Dosing using Bayesian Modeling in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. Poster Presentation at ASN, San Diego, CA, October 2018.
	El-Guindy S, Drake KA, Fessler A, Carroll T. Beta-catenin in the renal stroma regulates nephron differentiation. Poster presentation at Harvard Summer Research Conference, Boston, MA, August 2018.
	Drake KA, Adam M, Mahoney R, Potter SS. Disruption of Hox9,10,11 function results in cellular level lineage infidelity in the kidney. Poster presentation at International Workshop in Developmental Nephrology, Ein Gedi, Israel, April 2018.
	Ellington N, Drake K, Torreabla J, Hendricks AR. C3 glomerulopathy in children: a clinicopathological study. Poster presentation at USCAP; March 2018, Vancover BC.
	Drake KA, Adam M, Mahoney R, Potter SS. Hox mutant kidneys show cell identity ambiguity and reveal novel insights into multicystic renal dysplasia. Platform presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2017.
	Drake KA. Deciphering the Hox Code in the Developing Kidney. Pediatric Grand Rounds, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 2016.
	Drake KA, Kaufman K, Potter SS. Genetic sequencing of congenital kidney disease and hepatoblastoma. Presentation at Center for Pediatric Genomics research day, Cincinnati, OH, August 2016.
	Drake KA, Adam M, Potter SS. Hox genes play critical roles in patterning the developing kidney. Presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Baltimore, MD, May 2016.
	Drake KA, Ma Q, Devarajan P, Potter SS. Single cell RNA-seq gene expression analysis of proximal tubules. Poster at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2015.
	Lynfield R, Drake, KA, Schleiss MR. The re-emergence of rubeola: how falsehoods and fame can harm Minnesota’s children. Presented case presentation at the University of Minnesota Pediatric Grand Rounds, Minneapolis, MN, May 2011.
	Drake KA, Sauerbry MJ, Blohowiak SE, Kling PJ. Iron deficiency and renal development in the newborn rat. Presented at the Midwest Society for Pediatric Research, Indianapolis, IN, October 2011.
	Drake KA, McGregor A, Heineman T, Schleiss MR. Generation of a viable HSV-2 gD chimeric CMV as a novel potential live-attenuated vectored vaccine against HSV-2. Poster and satellite workshop presentation at the 31^st International Herpesvirus Workshop, Seattle, WA, July 2006.

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Date added:
09/12/2022

Date updated:
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