David Berrey Kershaw, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Transplantation (Medical Director of Pediatric Kidney Transplant), Hypertension and Glomerular disorders
Research Interests: Quality improvement in pediatric kidney transplant with our Improving Renal Outcomes Collaborative (IROC) initiative. Longstanding interest in pediatric Renovascular Hypertension
Education Interests: AAP PREP Nephrology editor
Kera Luckritz, D.O., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology, Clinical Informatics, Learning Health Sciences
Clinical Interests: Pediatric Dialysis, Acute Care Nephrology
Research Interests: Pediatric Dialysis Outcomes, Acute Kidney Injury, Big Data in Healthcare
Howard Trachtman, MD
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Nephrotic Syndrome, Glomerular Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease
Research Interests: Clinical trials; translational and observational research to improve the health outcomes in children and adults with nephrotic syndrome conditions;
impact of environmental chemical exposures on kidney development and disease progression in children with CKD
Zubin Modi, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Chronic Kidney Disease, Acute Care Nephrology
Research Interests: Identification and recognition of children with chronic kidney disease, Patterns of health care delivery to children with chronic kidney disease, Health insurance policy in pediatric kidney disease,
Patterns and changes in health care delivery among children with multiple chronic diseases
Eloise Salmon, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Transplantation, Chronic Kidney Disease, Glomerular Disease
Research Interests: Resource utilization in the three long-term renal replacement therapies - kidney transplant, hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis; phenotyping of recurrent disease post-transplant
Jennifer Yi-Chun-Lai Yee M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: I have clinical interests in general inpatient and outpatient nephrology. In particular, I am interested in glomerular disease and proteinuric kidney disease. My other interests also include both acute and chronic pediatric dialysis
Research Interests: I am interested in determining the impact of genetic variants on clinical outcomes in patients with nephrotic syndrome.
One of my research goals is to develop high throughput functional assays to define genetic variants in patient with proteinuric kidney disease.
Rebecca Lombel, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Chronic kidney disease, renal dysplasia and obstructive uropathy, hypertension, critical care nephrology
Scholarly Interests: Quality improvement and patient safety initiatives for pediatric nephrology patients; patient/family and trainee education; configuration and optimization of EPIC EMR
Clare Lindner, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Dialysis and kidney transplantation
Research Interests: Ethical issues surrounding neonatal dialysis; Transition of adolescent population; Participate in the KRN research group for Glomerular disease
Brooke Blazius, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Critical Care Nephrology, Neonatal Nephrology
Scholarly Interests: Medical Education and Quality Improvement including GFR reporting to improve recognition of abnormal kidney function
Michele Mills, RN, MSN, CPNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Obstructive uropathy, lupus nephritis, chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis
Research Interests: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKiD Study), Drug trials for pediatric indications
Laura Mariani, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Glomerular disease, chronic kidney disease
Andrea Oliverio, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine Nephrology
Clinical Interests: Sex and gender differences in kidney disease, with specific attention to women’s health outcomes and their preferences in healthcare decision making. Developing interventions to improve informed decision making, patient-physician
communication, and preconception counseling for women with chronic kidney disease.
Zeenat Bhat, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine Nephrology
Clinical Interests: chronic kidney disease, glomerular diseases, end stage renal disease
Wei Hao, PhD
Specialty: Biostatistics
Clinical Interests: developing new statistical methods in the mediation analysis.
