About
Our Mission
Coping with medical illness can be a burdensome, sometimes frightening experience for patients. We aim to minimize the intrusion of kidney disease in our patients’ lives, allowing them to continue to grow and thrive personally and professionally.
Our Philosophy
Coping with medical illness can be a burdensome, sometimes frightening experience for patients. We aim to minimize the intrusion of kidney disease in our patients’ lives, allowing them to continue to grow and thrive personally and professionally.
Many diseases of the kidney can be cured and for those that can’t, there are treatments that can help slow the process down and delay the onset of end stage kidney disease.
If, however, total loss of kidney function seems inevitable, we are prepared to make the necessary referrals for kidney transplant. Fortunately, there are many options for kidney transplants today, making this modality available for more of our chronic kidney disease patients. For those patients not able to transition immediately to transplant, we do everything possible to ease the transition into dialysis. Often times, information is all that is needed to make this possible.
We pride ourselves on making our patients well informed of their disease and their treatments so that they can be an integral part of their medical care. We strive to be available for our patients as they need us because we believe they should not have to live with uncertainty when it involves their health.
Dr. Stephen Vaccarezza was born and raised in San Francisco and graduated with his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1981. He did his internal medicine training at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York and his nephrology fellowship at New York University. He is currently board certified in internal medicine and nephrology and has been practicing for more than 30 years.
His practice interests include management of chronic kidney disease and preservation of kidney function. He is committed to listening carefully to all of his patients and answering their questions. His goal is to make every patient an active participant in his or her care.
While he spends most of his time in clinical practice, he is currently the medical director of the US Renal Care dialysis unit in Rockville (formerly Dialysis Corporation of America) and has served on various committees in the local hospitals.
He is married with two children and one grandchild and has lived here in Montgomery County for the past 30+ years. He is active in the local North Bethesda Rotary Club as a past president and has participated in various community projects in the area.
Dr. Jeffrey Perlmutter was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. He received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1983. Dr. Perlmutter did his internal medicine training at George Washington University and his nephrology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. After fellowship, he served on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He joined Nephrology Associates in 1995. Dr. Perlmutter is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology.
In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Perlmutter is the Medical Director of Dialysis Services at Holy Cross Hospital and the Medical Director for DaVita Silver Spring dialysis center. He holds a voluntary appointment at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland where he teaches first and second year medical students. Dr. Perlmutter serves on the Medical Review Board and as Chairman of the Vascular Access Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition. Also, he is vice-chairman of the Clinical Practice Committee of the Renal Physicians Association.
In the community, Dr. Perlmutter has been an active member of The National Kidney Foundation serving the National Capital Area since 1995. He has chaired many committees and in 2007-08 served as Chairman of the Board. He remains an active member of the Board of Directors. This year, Dr. Perlmutter became a member of the Board of Directors of Congregation B’nai Tzedek and serves as the chairman of its Ritual Committee.
Dr. Perlmutter has been practicing for 22 years. He is married with two children.
