Sushrut Waikar, MD, MPH, Elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation

Sushrut S. Waikar, MD, MPH, the Norman G. Levinsky Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and chief of nephrology at Boston Medical Center, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Election is considered a milestone in the physician-scientist career path and the ASCI holds its members to the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, mutual respect and collegiality.

Waikar received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and performed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he served as chief medical resident. He trained in nephrology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital and earned his master’s degree in public health at Harvard.

Waikar is a clinical researcher whose laboratory has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health. His research uses epidemiologic, translational and interventional studies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with acute and chronic kidney diseases.

He is a principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health grants including the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (U01 DK133092), Multi-omics and Chronic Kidney Disease: Correlation with Histology (R01 DK108803), Discovery Science Collaborative for CKDu (U01 DK130060), NAD Augmentation to Treat Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial (U01AG076789) and The Boston University Kidney and Medical Engineering Program (BU-KIDMEP, R25 DK128858).

Founded in 1908, the ASCI is one of the nation’s oldest medical honor societies and is among the few organizations focused on the special role of physician-scientists in research, clinical care and medical education, as well as leadership positions in academic medicine and the life sciences industry.