Lauren Stern, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Stern is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in Nephrology at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She has been active in medical student and resident education since 2011 and currently serves as the Director of the Integrated Renal Physiology and Pathophysiolgy PISCES course for first year medical students. She is also a Field Specific Advisor for fourth year medical students who are applying for residencies in Internal Medicine. She has previously served as an Associate Clerkship Director to the third year medical students in the Medicine 1 clerkship and as a core faculty member in the Internal Medicine Residency with a focus on curriculum innovation for residents.

Dr. Stern's clinical practice focuses on home dialysis therapies and she is the Medical Director of the Home Dialysis Program, which provides peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis for patients with end stage kidney disease. In addition, she is also attends on the renal consult service, dialysis and transplantation service, and sees patients in the Multidisciplinary Amyloidosis Research Center. She has been teaching faculty in a number of national home dialysis courses and served on a number of committees through the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Stern received her BS with Honors in Zoology from the University of Florida and her MD from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency, chief residency, and nephrology fellowship at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Health at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health.

Publications

  • Published 9/1/2024

    Lotfollahzadeh S, Vazirani A, Sellinger IE, Clovie J, Hoekstra I, Patel A, Malloum AB, Yin W, Paul H, Yadati P, Siracus J, Malikova M, Pernar LI, Francis J, Stern L, Chitalia VC. Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Pathway Augments Peritoneal Fibrosis in a Murine CKD Model Exposed to Peritoneal Dialysate. Kidney360. 2024 Sep 01; 5(9):1238-1250. PMID: 39235862.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 10/18/2023

    Boyle SM, Martindale J, Parsons AS, Sozio SM, Hilburg R, Bahrainwala J, Chan L, Stern LD, Warburton KM. Development and Validation of a Formative Assessment Tool for Nephrology Fellows' Clinical Reasoning. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jan 01; 19(1):26-34. PMID: 37851423.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 8/25/2023

    Shohet M, Nguyen NH, Stern LD, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM. Structural and Psychosocial Challenges Among Underserved Patients Receiving Hemodialysis During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study. Kidney Med. 2023 Nov; 5(11):100717. PMID: 37817797.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 11/1/2022

    Stern LD, Warburton K, Kim T, Cohen-Osher M. Challenges in Nephrology Education: Integration of the Preclinical Curriculum. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2022 Nov; 29(6):483-485. PMID: 36371109.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 7/20/2022

    Lotfollahzadeh S, Zhang M, Napoleon MA, Yin W, Orrick J, Elzind N, Morrissey A, Sellinger IE, Stern LD, Belghasem M, Francis JM, Chitalia VC. A Retrograde Implantation Approach for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Placement in Mice. J Vis Exp. 2022 07 20; (185). PMID: 35938794.

    Read at: PubMed

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Other Positions

  • Member, Amyloidosis Center
    Boston University

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Education

  • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, MD
  • University of Florida, BS

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