Sandeep Ghai MD
Assistant Professor, Nephrology
650 Albany St | (617) 638-7330sandeep.ghai@bmc.org
sghai@bu.edu
Sections
Nephrology
Biography
Sandeep Ghai, MD is an Assistant Professor of Nephrology at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed a residency and Nephrology Fellowship at Boston University Medical Center. Dr. Ghai is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. His interests includes Living Donor Kidney Transplantation, Infection Disease in Kidney Transplantation, Health Equity in Kidney Transplantation, General Kidney Transplantation, HIV in Kidney diseases and Kidney Transplantation, Bone Mineral Disease in both Kidney Transplantation and Chronic Kidney Disease. He is a member of the Kidney Transplant Living Donor Task Force at BMC.
He is a member of the American Society of Transplantation. He is an active member of the Living Donor Community of Practice including a member of the Multimedia committee.
Education
Medicine-Internal, MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Biochemistry, BSc, University Windsor
Publications
Gupta M, Agarwal G, Mejia C, Madariaga H, Balaraman V, Caza T, Dbouk N, Ghai S, Malhotra D, Parashar R, Virmani S, Wang A, Yadav A, Kumar V, Liapakis AM, Nishio Lucar A, Lentine KL. Multimedia Approach to Living Donation Education for Transplant Professionals: Building a Professional Society Multimedia Work Group. Curr Transplant Rep. 2025 Dec; 12(1). PMID: 40687908.
Published on 3/16/2024Goulam-Houssein S, Ye XY, Fleming R, Au F, Kulkarni S, Ghai S, Amitai Y, Reedijk M, Freitas V. Evaluating persistent T1-weighted lesions without concurrent abnormal enhancement on breast MRI in neoadjuvant chemotherapy patients: implications for complete pathological response. Eur Radiol. 2024 Oct; 34(10):6273-6282. PMID: 38491128.
Published on 1/25/2023Claudel SE, Valente C, Serafin H, Hassan Kamel M, Ghai S. Structured handoff to improve communication from inpatient to outpatient dialysis units: A quality improvement project. Hemodial Int. 2023 Apr; 27(2):146-154. PMID: 36696233.
Published on 4/26/2022Freitas V, Li X, Amitai Y, Au F, Kulkarni S, Ghai S, Mulligan AM, Bromley M, Siepmann T. Contralateral Breast Screening with Preoperative MRI: Long-Term Outcomes for Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer. Radiology. 2022 Aug; 304(2):297-307. PMID: 35471109.
Published on 10/28/2021Rogers R, Bodziak K, Cheema F, Chobanian M, Ebcioglu Z, Gabardi S, Ghai S, Gilligan H, Gohh R, Goyal N, Kavalam G, Mehri B, Rodig N, Rossi A, Singh J, Wood E, Tan CS, Pavlakis M. Implementing a regional standardized BK polyomavirus screening protocol across eleven transplant centres. Transpl Int. 2021 Dec; 34(12):2680-2685. PMID: 34628685.
Published on 9/2/2021Amitai Y, Menes TS, Scaranelo A, Fleming R, Kulkarni S, Ghai S, Wey L, Mulligan AM, Mrkonjic M, Freitas VAR. The characteristics associated with upgrade on surgical pathology of conventional imaging occult DCIS diagnosed by MRI. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2021 Nov; 190(2):317-327. PMID: 34476644.
Published on 1/26/2021Levin SR, Farber A, Eslami MH, Tan TW, Osborne NH, Francis JM, Ghai S, Siracuse JJ. Association of Medicaid Expansion with Tunneled Dialysis Catheter Use at the Time of First Arteriovenous Access Creation. Ann Vasc Surg. 2021 Jul; 74:11-20. PMID: 33508455.
Published on 10/21/2020Zimmerman A, Rogers R, Tan CS, Pavlakis M, Bodziak K, Cardarelli F, Francis J, Gabardi S, Germain M, Ghai S, Gilligan H, Goyal N, Malinis M, Patel H, Rodig N, Theodoropoulos NM, Walshe E, Wood E, Chobanian M. Expecting the unexpected: COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients within United Network for Organ Sharing Region 1. Transpl Int. 2020 12; 33(12):1843-1844. PMID: 33000866.
Published on 9/25/2020Liu CK, Ghai S, Waikar SS, Weiner DE. COVID-19 Infection Risk Among Hemodialysis Patients in Long-term Care Facilities. Kidney Med. 2020 Nov-Dec; 2(6):810-811. PMID: 33015605.
Published on 9/4/2020Amitai Y, Menes TS, Scaranelo A, Fleming R, Kulkarni S, Ghai S, Cil T, Done S, Freitas V. Lobular neoplasia occult on conventional imaging and diagnosed on MRI-guided biopsy: can we estimate upgrade on surgical pathology? Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Dec; 184(3):881-890. PMID: 32888139.