Kenar D. Jhaveri, MD
eAJKD Blog Editor
Kenar D. Jhaveri (eAJKD posts) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension at the Hofstra North Shore Long Island Jewish School of Medicine in New York. He is core faculty member of the medical school and the Department of Internal Medicine. He completed his residency training at Yale University New Haven Hospital in Internal Medicine and then a fellowship in Nephrology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell campus. Dr. Jhaveri’s clinical interests are in the improvement of outcomes in the post-transplant care of the kidney transplant patients. He also shares interests in taking care of patients with renal complications following bone marrow transplantation and chemotherapy (Cancer Nephrology). He is a columnist for the ASN Kidney News for the section called “Detective Nephron”. His interest in nephrology education are vested in using creative ways of teaching nephrology to the medical students, residents and fellows. He has published on using social media, and other innovative tools (games, concept maps, role playing, creative writing) to make nephrology a fun and exciting field. He has conducted numerous faculty development seminars locally to teach these techniques. He has an active role in the newly found medical school Hofstra NSLIJ School of medicine’s renal curriculum and the reflective and assessment course. His current projects are in using narrative medicine in improving nephrology education and patient care. He continues to have interest in novel ways of sharing information that can make an impact on all fronts:- physicians, allied health staff and the patients. He is a fellow of American Society of Nephrology, American College of Physicians and National Kidney Foundation. He has a teaching oriented blog called NephronPower.
Matthew A. Sparks, MD
Blog Advisory Board Member
Matt Sparks (eAJKD posts) is a Medical Instructor in the Division of Nephrology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR where he also served as chief resident. He then completed his nephrology fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC where he also completed additional training in hypertension research. He is interested in understanding how the renin-angiotensin and prostanoid systems contribute to blood pressure homeostasis and hypertensive end-organ damage. His research focuses on how vascular smooth muscle and endothelium contribute to blood pressure control. He is also interested in enhancing medical education in nephrology. He has served on the editorial board of ASN Kidney News and as past deputy editor of Renal Fellow Network. His publications include using social media in nephrology education and he is interested in finding novel ways to share and understand medical research and information. He is a fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and a member of the ASN education committee.
Sidharth Kumar Sethi, MD
Blog Advisory Board Member
Dr Sidharth Kumar Sethi (eAJKD posts) is an Associate Consultant in Pediatric Nephrology at the Kidney and Urology Institute, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
He was trained as a Fellow (International Pediatric Nephrology Association Fellowship) and Senior Resident in Pediatric Nephrology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Immunology, Cedars Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, California (International Society of Nephrology Fellow). He has been actively involved in the care of children with all kinds of complex renal disorders, including nephrotic syndrome, tubular disorders, urinary tract infections, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and renal transplantation.
He has been a part of 8-member writing committee for the guidelines of Steroid Sensitive Nephrotic Syndrome and Expert committee involved in the formulation of guidelines of Pediatric Renal Disorders including Steroid Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome and urinary tract infections. He has more than 30 indexed publications in Pediatric Nephrology and chapters in reputed textbooks including Essential Pediatrics (Editors O.P. Ghai) and “Pediatric Nephrology” (Editors RN Srivastava, A Bagga). He is a reviewer for Pediatric Nephrology related content for various Pediatric and Nephrology journals
His website Pediatric-Nephrology.com and the concept of Pediatric Renal Grand Rounds have been widely appreciated all over the world by the Fellows and clinicians interested in the field of childhood renal disorders. The website has been appreciated in reputed Nephrology journals like Kidney International and American Journal of Kidney Diseases. His research interests include Hemolytic uremic syndrome, tubular disorders, molecular nephrology and E-Nephrology.
Tejas Desai, MD
Blog Advisory Board Member
Tejas Desai (eAJKD posts) is Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training at New York University and completed a Chief Resident year at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Jersey City, NJ. Subsequently, Dr. Desai completed specialty training in Nephrology and Hypertension at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Desai serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Kidney Patients, and is a committee member of the American Society of Nephrology’s Communications Committee and Group for Enduring Materials Subcommittee. Dr. Desai’s scholarly inquiries focus on assessing the educational effectiveness of social media and Internet-based instruments using standard scientific methods and established statistical models. He is the creator and lead developer of Nephrology On-Demand, an award-winning website focused on nephrology education for patients and healthcare providers. Dr. Desai attends inpatient service at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville, NC, and outpatient clinic and dialysis patients at the ECU Nephrology and Hypertension offices. As Associate Program Director for Internal Medicine, Dr. Desai leads the development of social-media based educational and recruitment services for residents and medical students, respectively. He is a fellow of the National Kidney Foundation.
Kellie Calderon, MD
Blog Advisory Board Member
Kellie Calderon (eAJKD posts) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension at the Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine in NY . She completed her residency and fellowship at Hofstra North Shore LIJ as well. Her clinical interests are in improving primary care in dialysis and transplant patients. Her research focuses on paraprotein related kidney diseases. She has special interests in enhancing interest in nephrology through creative means of education. She is a participant in the popular nephrology blog:Nephron Power. She also serves on the editorial board of the ASN Kidney News.
Vinay Nair, DO
Blog Advisory Board Member
Dr. Nair (eAJKD posts) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and a transplant nephrologist in the Recanati Miller Transplantation Institute of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He completed his nephrology fellowship in Winthrop Hospital after which he completed a transplant nephrology fellowship in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. Nair’s clinical and research interests include transplanting highly sensitized patients utilizing desensitization protocols and kidney paired exchange. He is part of a national steering committee created to improve the transition process of pediatric transplant recipients to adult care. In addition to participating in peer review for transplant and nephrology journals, he is an associate member of Faculty of 1000, an online Journal review service. He is also an active contributor to The Online Transplant Center blog which has now been incorporated into the Nephron Power blog.
Dr. Nair’s educational activities include training renal fellows on sonography and biopsies of the renal allograft. He has lectured in CME courses including “Controversies in Chronic Kidney Disease”, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also a co-author of a chapter on transplant immunology and use of immunosuppression in a new electronic clinical guide to decision making in medicine.
Joel Topf, MD
Blog Advisory Board Member
Joel Topf (eAJKD posts) is a Detroit native. Following undergrad at the University of Michigan he went to Wayne State University School of Medicine. During medical school he wrote a Microbiology Study guide which sparked his interest in education and information design. During a Med-Peds residency at Indiana University he co-authored a fluid and electrolyte text book which led to a nephrology fellowship at the University of Chicago. He currently is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University and teaches medical students, residents and fellows at St. John Hospital and Medical Center back in Detroit. Since 2008 he has written a nephrology blog focused on teaching clinical nephrology at www.pbfluids.com.
AJKD Editorial Board
Andrew S. Levey, MD, Editor-in-Chief:
Dr Levey is the Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Tufts Medical Center and the Gerald J. and Dorothy R Friedman Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
His research interests include measurement and estimation of kidney function, epidemiology of CKD, treatments to slow the progression of CKD, cardiovascular disease in CKD, nutrition in CKD, and assessment of outcomes in patients treated by dialysis and kidney transplantation. Dr Levey was the principal nephrologist co-investigator for the NIDDK-sponsored Modification of Diet and Renal Disease (MDRD) Study. He and his colleagues have developed new equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from serum creatinine using this large database, and he is now leading the NIDDK-sponsored CKD Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) to pool databases from other studies to develop improved estimating equations.
Dr. Levey is a widely recognized authority on clinical practice guidelines in CKD. He led the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Task Force on Cardiovascular Disease in 1998. He was the Chair for two NKF Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative (KDOQI) Work Groups. “Chronic Kidney Disease: Evaluation, Classification and Stratification of Risk” was published in 2002. “Hypertension and Antihypertensive Agents in Chronic Kidney Disease” was published in 2004. He has led three Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) conferences. The 2004 conference addressed definition and classification of CKD, the 2006 conference addressed public health approaches and initiatives, and the 2009 conference addressed prognosis. He is Director of the Tufts Center on Guideline Development and Implementation.
Daniel E. Weiner, MD, MS, Deputy Editor
Dr Weiner is the Associate Medical Director of the Dialysis Clinic, Inc Boston and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr. Weiner’s clinical specialties include general nephrology and both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Dr. Weiner was the recipient of a K23 Career Development Award from the NIDDK to investigate cerebrovascular disease and cognitive impairment in individuals with CKD. His research work includes evaluating the effect of traditional and non-traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors on stroke and other cardiovascular disease outcomes, examining the applicability of current cardiovascular disease prediction equations to the CKD population, developing new prediction equations for use in CKD, and evaluating the burden of and risk factors for cognitive impairment and cerebrovascular disease in elderly individuals with CKD as well as in hemodialysis patients. He has also received a Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant from the American Society of Nephrology to investigate dialyzer reprocessing in the United States and has published on anemia management in dialysis patients. Other research interests include an ongoing investigation of chronic kidney disease in rural Nicaragua in collaborations with researchers at Boston University.
Scott J. Gilbert, MD, Education Editor
Dr Gilbert is Fellowship Director of the Division of Nephrology at Tufts Medical Center and Medical Director of the Kidney and Blood Pressure Center. He is also Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr. Gilbert’s clinical interests are the treatment of CKD, hemodialysis, and kidney transplantation. His research interests include the management of lupus nephritis and the treatment of renal artery stenosis.
Dr. Gilbert coordinates the educational activities within the Division of Nephrology. He is the Director of the Fellowship Training Program and coordinates housestaff nephrology education. Dr. Gilbert is also active in reforming the educational curriculum at Tufts University School of Medicine, and plays a major role in medical student education. He is course director of the From Health to Disease Course and leads the Renal Section. He also directs the Consultative Nephrology elective. Dr. Gilbert’s other educational activities include teaching Renal Pharmacology at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University and Quantitative Physiology in the Department of Engineering at Boston University.
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