Deepthi Gunasekaran, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Gunasekaran received her medical degree with honors from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Fairview Hospital program where she served as Chief Resident. She completed a Clinical Nephrology Fellowship at Yale University. As a clinician-educator, her clinical work spans the spectrum of outpatient and inpatient kidney disease and she has a special interest in cardiorenal syndrome and the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for volume assessment. She was instrumental in launching and running the point-of-care ultrasound curriculum for nephrology fellowship. In educational innovation, her work includes art gallery visits for medical trainees with focus on critical observation skills, clinical reasoning and trainee wellness.

Publications

  • Published 11/29/2023

    Malvar G, Gunasekaran D, Mehr NV, Ishibe S, Moeckel G. Thrombotic Microangiopathy and Acute Tubular Injury After Diethylene Glycol Ingestion: A Kidney Biopsy Teaching Case. Kidney Med. 2024 Feb; 6(2):100758. PMID: 38304581.

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  • Published 9/12/2023

    Gunasekaran D, Turner JM. Current and Developing Technologies for BP Monitoring. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2023 Oct; 25(10):1151-1156. PMID: 37698819.

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  • Published 9/1/2023

    Gunasekaran D, Shirali AC. How Sweet It Is: A Perspective on the Potential Anti-Tumor Role for SGLT2 Inhibitors. Kidney360. 2023 Sep 01; 4(9):e1322-e1324. PMID: 37487034.

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  • Published 7/28/2023

    Patidar KR, Belcher JM, Regner KR, St Hillien SA, Simonetto DA, Asrani SK, Neyra JA, Sharma P, Velez JCQ, Wadei H, Nadim MK, Chung RT, Seethapathy R, Parada XV, Ouyang T, Ufere NN, Robinson JE, McLean Diaz P, Wilechansky RM, Przybyszewski EM, Smith TN, Ali AA, Orman ES, Schulz P, Siddiqui SM, Shabbir R, Liu LJ, Cama-Olivares A, Flannery AH, Baker ML, Gunasekaran D, Aswine A, Issa R, Li J, Verma S, Chalmers D, Varghese V, Lam W, Mohamed M, Kovacic R, Gaddy A, Attieh RM, Cortes P, Semnani S, Wang L, Khemichian S, Allegretti AS. Incidence and outcomes of acute kidney injury including hepatorenal syndrome in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis in the US. J Hepatol. 2023 Dec; 79(6):1408-1417. PMID: 37517455.

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  • Published 11/17/2022

    Gunasekaran D, Pell J, Menon MC. Walking the Line Between Antidonor and Antiviral Immunity: A Potential Role for Belatacept. Kidney Int Rep. 2023 Jan; 8(1):1-3. PMID: 36644356.

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