Sushrut S. Waikar, MD

Norman G. Levinsky Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Sushrut S. Waikar, MD, MPH received a BA in English and Neuroscience at Amherst College, his MD at Yale, and an MPH at Harvard. He is the Norman G. Levinsky Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Chief of Nephrology at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Waikar's research interests and active projects include epidemiologic, translational, and interventional studies to address novel and clinically important questions in nephrology. Current areas of investigation include optimal diagnostic testing in acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease; biomarkers of kidney pathology and kidney fibrosis; the identification of relevant targets for interventional trials in kidney disease; and randomized controlled trials. He is a Principal Investigator of several NIH 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) andThe Boston University Kidney and Medical Engineering Program (BU-KIDMEP, R25 DK128858).

Publications

  • Published 5/7/2025

    Mc Causland FR, Waikar SS, Claggett B, McMahon GM, Neto OMV, Rastogi A, Praditpornsilpa K, Correa-Rotter R, Kher V, Del Vecchio L, Solomon SD, Singh AK. Association of Different Definitions of Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent Hyporesponsiveness with Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events: Insights From ASCEND-D. Kidney360. 2025 May 07. PMID: 40333020.

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  • Published 5/6/2025

    Solomon M, Heydarpour M, Tsai LC, Honzel B, Brown J, Newman AJ, Parisien-LaSalle S, Wang TJ, Wei J, Zhang J, Waikar S, Vaidya A. The Impact Of Modern Industrialized Dietary Sodium Intake On The Plasma Proteome. Am J Hypertens. 2025 May 06. PMID: 40327765.

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  • Published 5/2/2025

    Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Verma A. Albuminuria References Ranges in Healthy US Adults. J Appl Lab Med. 2025 May 02; 10(3):767-771. PMID: 39981782.

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  • Published 4/1/2025

    Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Verma A. Albuminuria: A Marker of Adverse Kidney Outcomes in Heart Failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Apr 01; 85(12):1372-1375. PMID: 40139894.

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  • Published 3/25/2025

    Menon R, Kimmel PL, Otto EA, Subramanian L, Berthier CC, O' Connor CL, Godfrey B, Naik AS, Sarwal M, Woodle ES, Pyle L, Choi YJ, Ladd P, Sedor JR, Rosas SE, Waikar SS, Bitzer M, Bjornstad P, Hodgin JB, Kretzler M. Not all controls are made equal: Definition of human kidney reference samples by single cell gene expression profiles. medRxiv. 2025 Mar 25. PMID: 40166576.

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Other Positions

  • Interim Chief and Chair, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Section Chief, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

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Education

  • Yale University, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MPH
  • Amherst College, BA

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