Insa M. Schmidt, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Insa M. Schmidt, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine in the Section of Nephrology. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of kidney disease and the development of non-invasive biomarkers to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Her work has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, the American Society of Nephrology’s Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant, and the Boston University Department of Medicine Research Accelerator Program. Committed to patient-oriented research, she is currently funded by an NIDDK K01 award to study advanced disease phenotyping and outcome prediction in CKD using multi-source data, including proteomics, digital pathology, and clinical information.

Publications

  • Published 5/29/2026

    Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Verma A. Predictors of variability in urine albumin to creatinine ratio in the general U.S. adult population. Am J Nephrol. 2026 May 29; 1-10. PMID: 42213595.

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  • Published 4/1/2026

    Rosan SH, Verma A, Claudel SE, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Henderson J, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM. Associations of serum uric acid levels with podocyte injury and kidney histopathologic lesions. J Nephrol. 2026 Apr 01. PMID: 41921046.

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  • Published 11/24/2025

    Lake BB, Melo Ferreira R, Hansen J, Menon R, Basta J, Thiessen Philbrook H, Reinert S, Fallegger R, Lagwankar AK, Chen X, Maity S, Djambazova KV, Gorman BL, Lucarelli N, Gisch DL, Schmidt IM, Nair V, Alakwaa F, Kefaloyianni E, Zhang B, Knoten AL, Kaushal M, Otto EA, Farrow MA, Diep D, Velickovic D, Sabo AR, Cole E, Tamayo I, Tanevski J, Conklin KY, Sealfon RSG, He Y, Brennan M, Robbins L, Cheng YH, Bitzer M, Surapaneni A, Menez S, Kharchenko PV, Alpers CE, Balis UGJ, Barisoni L, de Boer IH, Demeke D, Fogo AB, Henderson JM, Herlitz L, Moeckel GW, Randhawa PS, Rosenberg AZ, Schaub JA, Setty S, Brosius FC, Caramori ML, Coca SG, Figenshau RS, Kim EH, Kiryluk K, Lash JP, Miller RT, O'Toole JF, Palevsky PM, Rhee EP, Ricardo AC, Rosas SE, Roy-Chaudhury P, Sarwal MM, Sedor JR, Toto RD, Turkmen A, Waikar SS, Williams JC, Wilson FP, Woodle ES, Macosko EZ, Saez-Rodriguez J, Dagher PC, Grams ME, Bjornstad P, El-Achkar TM, Troyanskaya OG, Bonevich N, Sarder P, Kumar S, Anderton CR, Spraggins JM, Sharma K, Rauchman M, Himmelfarb J, Gaut JP, Precision Medicine Project K, Zhang K, Iyengar R, Kretzler M, Hodgin JB, Parikh CR, Eadon MT, Jain S. Cellular and Spatial Drivers of Unresolved Injury and Functional Decline in the Human Kidney. bioRxiv. 2025 Nov 24. PMID: 41040183.

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  • Published 11/20/2025

    Kim T, Ju W, Surapaneni A, Li Y, Wen D, Trivin-Avillach C, Rosales IA, Beck LH, Nair V, Fermin D, Zee J, Schmidt IM, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Kretzler M, Coresh J, Waikar SS, Grams ME, Rhee EP. Circulating Testican-2 and MGT5A are Markers of Membranous Nephropathy. Kidney Int Rep. 2026 Feb; 11(2):103695. PMID: 41502806.

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  • Published 11/3/2025

    Schmidt IM, Rhee EP. Interpreting Metabolomics and Proteomics in Kidney Disease: A Practical Guide. Am J Kidney Dis. 2026 Jan; 87(1):129-133. PMID: 41192615.

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Education

  • Universitaet Hannover, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MPH