Current Fellows

Second Year: Jolina Santos M.D. Fuad Spath M.D. Srujana Polsani M.D.

First Year: Andi Qipo M.D.

 

Graduated Fellows

 

2012:

Dr. Ajith Puram: Private Nephrology, Indiana

2011:

Dr. Zaher Hamadeh: Division of Nephrology, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY

Dr. Sophie Kwok:

2010:

Dr. Tewabe Kebede: Private Nephrologist affiliated with St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago

Dr. Praneetha Puskuri: Hospitalist at Warren Medical Center, New Jersey.

2009:

Dr. Mythili Ghanta: Transplant Nephrologist, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Dr. Sri. Bonam: Private Nephrologist at Renal Consultants PC, Rockland Couny, NY

2008:

Dr. Christopher Provenzano: Private Nephrologist, Detroit, Michigan

Dr. Muhammad Raza Mustafa: Assistant Professor of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

2007:

Dr. Nandita Singh: Transplant Nephrologist, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY

Dr. Serge Balmir: Private Nephrologist, Brooklyn, NY

 

Abstracts, Posters, Papers and Presentations by fellows: (This section is being updated) 

Dialysis is not indicated immediately after contrast in end stage renal disease patients on hemodialysis. Sophie Kwok, Mamatha Chella, Beenu Singh, Anjali Acharya, National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting, April 26-30, 2011

Cardiac arrest secondary to bilateral pulmonary embolism following arteriovenous fistula thrombectomy. Zaher Hamadeh, Mamatha Chella, Naheed Ansari, Anjali Acharya. National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting, April 26-30, 2011

Urinary Nephrin as an Early Biomarker of Diabetic Nephropathy. Qipo A, Cohen, H.W, Jim B. National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting, April 26-30, 2011

Severe obstructive nephropathy due to large uterine fibroid in young non pregnant woman. Zaher Hamadeh, Naheed Ansari. National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting, April 26-30, 2011

Acute kidney injury secondary to kidney crystallization attributable to nelfinavir.Zaher Hamadeh, Tejinder S. Ahuja2, Jeffrey Kopp3.Jacobi Medical Center, National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting, April 26-30, 2011

Urinothorax as a cause of pleural effusion. Zaher Hamadeh, Jolina Santos, Naheed Ansari, National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting, April 26-30, 2011

2007                Nandita Singh, Naheed Ansari, Anjali Acharya; Severe hypokalemia and thyroid storm secondary to iodinated contrast, NKF Meetings

2007                Belinda Jim, Nandita Singh, Kwanghee Kim, Naheed Ansari, Kisra Anis, Peter Mundel, Anjali Acharya; sFlt-Fc Upregulates Synaptopodin Expression in Podocytes ASN 40th Annual Renal Week Meeting

2008                Christopher Provenzano, Anjali Acharya; A case of metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA) in a chronic dialysis patient, NKF Meetings

2008                Muhammad Mustafa, Anjali Acharya; Interstitial nephritis as the only renal lesion with C-ANCA positive Wegener’s disease - an unusual renal presentation; NKF Meetings

2008                Christopher R. Provenzano, Anjali Acharya; Acute proliferative glomerulonephritis as the result of catastrophic anti phospholipid syndrome (CAPS), NKF Meetings

2008                Mythili Ghanta, Sriranga L Bonam, Rajan Kapoor, Anjali Acharya; Venous thromboembolism as the initial presentation of primary renal amyloidosis, NKF Meetings

2008                Coritsidis G, Mayne TJ, Acharya A, Gitlin M, Gnanasekaran A, Stanescu C, Bonam S, Ganta M, Anis K, Thompson N, Joseph N, Dungca C, Shahata H, Tannenberg A, Gupta G,  Pogue V, Gilbertson D, Collins A., and the HHC Dialysis Research Group (DRG); Dialysis Care in New York City:  The Intersection of National and Local Data: ASN 41st Annual Renal Week Meeting.

2008                Belinda Jim, Tulio Matos, David Garry, Anjali Acharya, Mian Samia, Mireia Castillo, Christopher Provenzano, Pascale Jean-Louis; Urinary Podocyte Excretion as a Marker for Preeclampsia and Other High Risk Pregnancy States: ASN 41st Annual Renal Week Meeting.

2009                Acharya A, Stanescu C , Bonam S, Puram A, Zelkowitz M, Anis K , Gupta G, Mihaltses J, Coritsidis G; Baseline Demographic and Biochemical Characteristics of Dialysis Population in  Two New York City’s Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) Hospitals Compared with the USRDS Population, NKF Meetings.

2009                Marc Zelkowitz, Sri Bonam, Nandita Singh, Salman Waheed, Ashok Talreja, Flavio Rivera, Ofer Sagiv, Jay Gross, Hillel Cohen and Anjali Acharya;    CKD and Incidence of Arrhythmias in Patients with Internal Cardiac Defibrillators, NKF Meetings

Updated by the Chiefs