Sushrut S. Waikar MD

Section Chief, Nephrology

Norman G. Levinsky Professor, Nephrology

650 Albany St | (617) 638-7330
Sushrut Waikar
Sections

Nephrology

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).

Education

MD, Yale University

MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

English/Neuroscience/Neurology, BA, Amherst College

Publications

Published on 3/6/2024

Claudel SE, Chan M, Scammell MK, Waikar SS. Challenges and Opportunities: Studying CKDu in the United States. Kidney360. 2024 Mar 06. PMID: 38446084.

Published on 2/13/2024

Jotwani V, Yang SY, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Parikh CR, Katz R, Tranah GJ, Ix JH, Cummings S, Waikar SS, Shlipak MG, Sarnak MJ, Parikh SM, Arking DE. Mitochondrial genetic variation and risk of chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury in UK Biobank participants. Hum Genet. 2024 Feb; 143(2):151-157. PMID: 38349571.

Published on 2/12/2024

Ledru N, Wilson PC, Muto Y, Yoshimura Y, Wu H, Li D, Asthana A, Tullius SG, Waikar SS, Orlando G, Humphreys BD. Predicting proximal tubule failed repair drivers through regularized regression analysis of single cell multiomic sequencing. Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 12; 15(1):1291. PMID: 38347009.

Published on 12/24/2023

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Vasan RS, Verma A. The relationship between low levels of albuminuria and cardiovascular mortality among apparently healthy adults. medRxiv. 2023 Dec 24. PMID: 38196576.

Published on 12/14/2023

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Gopal DM, Verma A. Association of cardiac biomarkers, kidney function, and mortality among adults with chronic kidney disease. medRxiv. 2023 Dec 14. PMID: 38168327.

Published on 12/12/2023

Kmochová T, Kidd KO, Orr A, Hnízda A, Hartmannová H, Hodanová K, Vyletal P, Naušová K, Brinsa V, Trešlová H, Sovová J, Barešová V, Svojšová K, Vrbacká A, Stránecký V, Robins VC, Taylor A, Martin L, Rivas-Chavez A, Payne R, Bleyer HA, Williams A, Rennke HG, Weins A, Short PJ, Agrawal V, Storsley LJ, Waikar SS, McPhail ED, Dasari S, Leung N, Hewlett T, Yorke J, Gaston D, Geldenhuys L, Samuels M, Levine AP, West M, Hulková H, Pompach P, Novák P, Weinberg RB, Bedard K, Živná M, Sikora J, Bleyer AJ, Kmoch S. Autosomal dominant ApoA4 mutations present as tubulointerstitial kidney disease with medullary amyloidosis. Kidney Int. 2023 Dec 12. PMID: 38096951.

Published on 11/10/2023

Hong X, Rosenberg AZ, Heymann J, Yoshida T, Waikar SS, Ilori TO, Wang G, Rebuck H, Pearson C, Wang MC, Winkler CA, Kopp JB, Wang X. Joint Associations of Pregnancy Complications and Postpartum Maternal Renal Biomarkers With Severe Cardiovascular Morbidities: A US Racially and Ethnically Diverse Prospective Birth Cohort Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Nov 10; 12(22):e029311. PMID: 37947096.

Published on 10/24/2023

Curtis KA, Waikar SS, Mc Causland FR. Higher NT-proBNP levels and the risk of intradialytic hypotension at hemodialysis initiation. Hemodial Int. 2024 Jan; 28(1):77-84. PMID: 37875429.

Published on 10/23/2023

Limonte CP, Prince DK, Hoofnagle AN, Galecki A, Hirsch IB, Tian F, Waikar SS, Looker HC, Nelson RG, Doria A, Mauer M, Kestenbaum BR, de Boer IH. Associations of Biomarkers of Tubular Injury and Inflammation with Biopsy Features in Type 1 Diabetes. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 Oct 23; 19(1):44-55. PMID: 37871959.

Published on 10/16/2023

Sharma K, Zhang G, Hansen J, Bjornstad P, Lee HJ, Menon R, Hejazi L, Liu JJ, Franzone A, Looker HC, Choi BY, Fernandez R, Venkatachalam MA, Kugathasan L, Sridhar VS, Natarajan L, Zhang J, Sharma VS, Kwan B, Waikar SS, Himmelfarb J, Tuttle KR, Kestenbaum B, Fuhrer T, Feldman HI, de Boer IH, Tucci FC, Sedor J, Heerspink HL, Schaub J, Otto EA, Hodgin JB, Kretzler M, Anderton CR, Alexandrov T, Cherney D, Lim SC, Nelson RG, Gelfond J, Iyengar R. Endogenous adenine mediates kidney injury in diabetic models and predicts diabetic kidney disease in patients. J Clin Invest. 2023 Oct 16; 133(20). PMID: 37616058.

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