Biography
Dr. Upadhyay is a clinical nephrologist and Director of the Nephrology Fellowship Program at Boston Medical Center (BMC). He also leads the research and evidence-based medicine curriculum for the Internal Medicine Residency Program and is a key faculty in BU’s NIH R38-funded Research in Residency Program. Previously, Dr. Upadhyay led evidence review teams for international clinical practice guidelines in nephrology (2009-2012), was Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at BMC (2012-2018) and was Director of Nephrology Clerkship at BUCASM (2018-2025). His scholarly contributions span clinical nephrology and medical education, with his publications, excluding clinical practice guidelines, achieving over 5,500 citations. In addition, he is an investigator on several kidney disease–related clinical studies at BMC. Nationally, he serves as a voting member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s Renal Disease and Detoxification Committee, the primary source of national and international consensus standards for hemodialysis technology and dialysis water sterilization processes. At BUCASM, he chairs the Committee on Appeals and is a member of the Medical Education Committee. He is the recipient of the 2021 Program Leadership Award from Boston Medical Center and the 2022 Robert Dawson Evans Special Recognition Teaching Award from the Department of Medicine.