Amit J. Joshi, MD  

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
 
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