Specialty:
Nephrology
Location(s):
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital, Oak Forest Health Center
Department/Division:
Hypertension (Nephrology)
Faculty Rank:
Attending Physician
Board Certification:
Internal Medicine and Nephrology
Medical Education:
Pramukhswami Medical College, India
Residency:
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Fellowship:
University of Illinois at Chicago
Clinical Expertise:
Kidney disease, dialysis, hypertension
Publications:
• Poster: Efficacy of Cyclophosphamide and Mycophenolate mofetil as induction immunosuppression in proliferative lupus nephritis in ethnic minorities. American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2019)
• Urine exosomal ceruloplasmin: a potential early biomarker of underlying kidney disease: Clinical and Experimental Nephrology (2019)
• Abstract: Retinopathy predicts rapid decline in renal function in Ethnic Minorities with Diabetic nephropathy. American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2018)
• Abstract: Efficacy of induction immunosuppression in ethnic minorities with Membranous Lupus nephritis. American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2017)
• Poster: Kidney biopsy has significant clinical utility even in advanced CKD: American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2016)
• Poster: Don’t hang your hat on retinopathy in diabetic kidney disease: American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2016)
• Poster: Urine exosomal Ceruloplasmin- a potential early marker of kidney damage that precedes proteinuria: American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2015)
• Abstract: Clinical Outcomes of IgA Nephropathy with Necrotizing and Crescentic Lesions in Inner City Hospital.
• American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2015) Lupus-like membranous nephropathy: is it lupus or not? Clin Exp Nephrol. July 4, 2014.
• Abstract: Albuminuria is Associated with Diabetic Retinopathy in Ethnic Minorities. American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2013)
• Antibiotic Catheter Locks in the Treatment of Tunneled Hemodialysis Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection. Semin Dial. Aug 1, 2012.
• Acute Epstein–Barr virus infection-associated collapsing Glomerulopathy. Clin Kidney Journal 5: 320–322 (2012)
• Poster: Urine exosomal ceruloplasmin – a potential biomarker of early kidney disease. American Society of Nephrology Meeting (2012)
Research Interests:
Chronic kidney disease