Sushrut S. Waikar MD

Section Chief, Nephrology

Norman G. Levinsky Professor, Nephrology

650 Albany St | (617) 638-7330
swaikar@bu.edu

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).

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Education

MD, Yale University

MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

English/Neuroscience/Neurology, BA, Amherst College

Publications

Published on 6/10/2024

Darshi M, Kugathasan L, Maity S, Sridhar VS, Fernandez R, Limonte CP, Grajeda BI, Saliba A, Zhang G, Drel VR, Kim JJ, Montellano R, Tumova J, Montemayor D, Wang Z, Liu JJ, Wang J, Perkins BA, Lytvyn Y, Natarajan L, Lim SC, Feldman H, Toto R, Sedor JR, Patel J, Waikar SS, Brown J, Osman Y, He J, Chen J, Reeves WB, de Boer IH, Roy S, Vallon V, Hallan S, Gelfond JA, Cherney DZ, Sharma K. Glycolytic lactate in diabetic kidney disease. JCI Insight. 2024 Jun 10; 9(11). PMID: 38855868.

PubMed

Published on 6/6/2024

Yeo WJ, Surapaneni AL, Hasson DC, Schmidt IM, Sekula P, Köttgen A, Eckardt KU, Rebholz CM, Yu B, Waikar SS, Rhee EP, Schrauben SJ, Feldman HI, Vasan RS, Kimmel PL, Coresh J, Grams ME, Schlosser P. Serum and Urine Metabolites and Kidney Function. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jun 06. PMID: 38844075.

PubMed

Published on 6/3/2024

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Vasan RS, Verma A. The relationship between low levels of albuminuria and mortality among adults without major cardiovascular risk factors. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2024 Jun 03. PMID: 38825979.

PubMed

Published on 5/22/2024

Wachterman MW, Sinha A, Leveille T, Waikar SS, Widera E, Romero K, Bokhour B. Nephrologists' perspectives and experiences with hospice among older adults with end-stage kidney disease. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Jul; 72(7):2060-2069. PMID: 38777614.

PubMed

Published on 5/17/2024

Dubin RF, Deo R, Ren Y, Wang J, Pico AR, Mychaleckyj JC, Kozlitina J, Arthur V, Lee H, Shah A, Feldman H, Bansal N, Zelnick L, Rao P, Sukul N, Raj DS, Mehta R, Rosas SE, Bhat Z, Weir MR, He J, Chen J, Kansal M, Kimmel PL, Ramachandran VS, Waikar SS, Segal MR, Ganz P. Incident heart failure in chronic kidney disease: proteomics informs biology and risk stratification. Eur Heart J. 2024 May 17. PMID: 38757788.

PubMed

Published on 5/1/2024

Samal L, Kilgallon JL, Lipsitz S, Baer HJ, McCoy A, Gannon M, Noonan S, Dunk R, Chen SW, Chay WI, Fay R, Garabedian PM, Wu E, Wien M, Blecker S, Salmasian H, Bonventre JV, McMahon GM, Bates DW, Waikar SS, Linder JA, Wright A, Dykes P. Clinical Decision Support for Hypertension Management in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 May 01; 184(5):484-492. PMID: 38466302.

PubMed

Published on 4/26/2024

Amatruda JG, Katz R, Rebholz CM, Sarnak MJ, Gutierrez OM, Schrauben SJ, Greenberg JH, Coresh J, Cushman M, Waikar S, Parikh CR, Schelling JR, Jogalekar MP, Bonventre JV, Vasan RS, Kimmel PL, Ix JH, Shlipak MG. Urine Biomarkers of Kidney Tubule Health and Risk of Incident CKD in Persons Without Diabetes: The ARIC, MESA, and REGARDS Studies. Kidney Med. 2024 Jun; 6(6):100834. PMID: 38826568.

PubMed

Published on 4/24/2024

Kim T, Surapaneni AL, Schmidt IM, Eadon MT, Kalim S, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Hodgin JB, Menon R, Otto EA, Coresh J, Grams ME, Waikar SS, Rhee EP. Plasma Proteins Associated with Chronic Histopathologic Lesions on Kidney Biopsy. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jul 01; 35(7):910-922. PMID: 38656806.

PubMed

Published on 4/23/2024

Claudel SE, Waikar SS. Imprecise, Measure it Twice? Dealing With the Biological Variability of Albuminuria in Diabetes. Am J Kidney Dis. 2024 Jul; 84(1):1-3. PMID: 38661613.

PubMed

Published on 4/19/2024

Schlosser P, Surapaneni AL, Borisov O, Schmidt IM, Zhou L, Anderson A, Deo R, Dubin R, Ganz P, He J, Kimmel PL, Li H, Nelson RG, Porter AC, Rahman M, Rincon-Choles H, Shah V, Unruh ML, Vasan RS, Zheng Z, Feldman HI, Waikar SS, Köttgen A, Rhee EP, Coresh J, Grams ME. Association of Integrated Proteomic and Metabolomic Modules with Risk of Kidney Disease Progression. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jul 01; 35(7):923-935. PMID: 38640019.

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