Tammy L. Sirich is an instructor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s of science in chemistry. During her undergraduate time, she worked in an analytical chemistry research lab that specialized in mass spectrometry. She completed medical school at UC San Diego and internal medicine training at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Dr. Sirich completed nephrology fellowship training at Stanford University. During her training, she conducted research under the mentorship of Dr. Timothy Meyer, studying uremic solutes using mass spectrometry. She received a Career Development Award from the Veterans Affairs Research program. She continues to study the role of uremic solutes in kidney failure using novel techniques of mass spectrometry.