Introducing the 2025-26 AJKD Editorial Interns
As we enter year eight of the AJKD Editorial Internship Program, the editors were once again delighted by the many qualified applicants who responded to our recent call for applications.
Please join us in welcoming the AJKD Editorial Internship Class of 2025: Elias J. Elenjickal, Natasha Freeman, Kashvi Gupta, Ifeoluwa T. Stowe, and Nicole E. Wyatt.
Elias John Elenjickal is a Nephrology Research Fellow and PhD. student at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada. He completed his medical degree and internal medicine residency at Goa Medical College, and his nephrology training at Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana—both in India. He is currently on sabbatical from Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, the largest not-for-profit tertiary care institution in South India, where he has served as both a clinician and clinical researcher. Dr. Elenjickal’s research focuses on improving access to evidence-based cardiovascular therapies for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, a high-risk group frequently underrepresented in clinical trials. At McGill, he is actively involved in multiple clinical trials that aim to address this critical evidence gap. His long-term vision is to return to India to build a sustainable research ecosystem by mentoring early-career investigators, strengthening local research capacity, and leading collaborative clinical trials relevant to resource-constrained settings. Outside of medicine, Dr. Elenjickal draws strength and joy from his family, who remain his greatest source of support and inspiration.
Natasha Freeman is a Glomerular Diseases Fellow practicing at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She received her MD from the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and her fellowship in general nephrology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Freeman’s clinical and research interests focus on glomerular diseases and narrative medicine, with a particular focus on how chronic kidney disease affects patient identity. She is also passionate about nephrology education—she enjoys teaching medical students and residents and serves on the American Society of Nephrology Workforce and Training Committee. In her free time, she can be found at the beach with a novel, on the tennis court, haunting NYC’s Broadway theaters, and wandering in Central Park.
Kashvi Gupta is a Clinical Research Fellow in the Division of Nephrology at the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and earned a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on reducing complications of high blood pressure and improving health outcomes in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Outside of work, she enjoys distance running and discovering new restaurants around the Bay Area. Follow her @KashviLunawat/@kashvilunawat.bsky.social.
Ifeoluwa Stowe is a nephrology fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. She was born and raised in Nigeria where she completed medical school at the University of Lagos. She thereafter completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Nephrology Fellowship at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital; serving as the Chief Resident of the Department of Medicine for 2 years while doing her nephrology fellowship. She moved to the United States in 2021 for Internal Medicine residency training at Baton Rouge General Medical Center, Louisiana. She is interested in clinician education, mentorship and leadership and is actively involved in resident education; presently pursuing the clinician educator track at BIDMC. Her academic interests include acute kidney injury, acid-base disorders and onconephrology. Follow her @ifeolaoye.
Nicole Wyatt is the current Glomerulonephritis and Vasculitis Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her medical school training from Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine prior to completing her internal medicine residency at Brookwood Baptist Health in Birmingham, AL. She then completed her nephrology fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center prior to pursing her clinical research fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research interests include both observational studies and clinical trials in glomerular disease. After fellowship, she will be joining the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill where she will continue her clinical and research interests in glomerulonephritis and vasculitis. When she is not immersed in the world of nephrology, she enjoys hiking, reading, exploring with her husband, and doing anything that involves cuddling her dog and cat.
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