News Archive
Associations between Kidney Histopathologic Lesions and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease – Article in JAMA Cardiology
Congratulations to Drs. Sushrut Waikar, Insa Schimdt, Ashish Verma and all other authors on the publishing of their article in JAMA Cardiology. Article link
Dr Titilayo Ilori Receives National Honor From the American Society for Clinical Investigation
Congratulation Dr Titilayo Ilori on being one of the recipient of the 2023 Young Physician-Scientist Awards from the American Society for Clinical Investigation. This award recognizes physician-scientist who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research. Please read the full story here .
CISS Announces 2022-23 Pilot Grant Recipients
Congratulations to Drs Insa Schmidt and Merav Shohet on receiving a pilot grant from the BU Center for Innovation in Social Science. Article link
Article on Patient’s Perspective on Race and the Use of Race-Based Algorithms in Clinical Decision-Making in JGIM
Congratulation to Dr Insa Schimdt and all authors on the publication of their article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Please click here to read it
Drs Beck, Bathia, Francis, Havasi and Stern among Boston Magazine’s “Top Docs 2023”
Congratulations to Dr Laurence Beck, Jasvinder Bathia, Jean Francis, Andrea Havasi and Lauren Stern of BU/BMC's section of Nephrology for being named "Top Docs" for 2023 in Boston Magazine's! They are among one hundred and sixteen BMC physicians named for the exceptional care that they provide to our patients and... More
Dr. Ashish Upadhyay and Dr. Ramon Bonegio Awarded During 2022 Evans Research Day
Congratulations to BMC Nephrology's Dr. Ashish Upadhyay and Dr. Ramon Bonegio for their DOM Evans Research Day Awards! Dr. Upadhyay has received the Special Recognition Teaching Award, which recognizes that "trainees at every level benefit from his skilled teaching, support of scholarship and programmatic enhancements. Under his leadership, Nephrology training has... More
Dr. Najia Idrees wins 2nd Place Clinical Poster Award in 2022 Evans Research Day
Congratulations to faculty member and fellowship program alum Dr. Najia Idrees who has won the 2nd Place Clinical Poster Award for the 2022 Department of Medicine's Evans Research Day for her research work conducted during fellowship with her mentor Dr. Vipul Chitalia! Title: Conventional Venogram Underestimates Vascular Access Stenosis Compared to... More
The use of plasma biomarker-derived clusters for clinicopathologic phenotyping: results from the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort Published in the Clinical Kidney Journal with Author Dr. Insa Schmidt
Congratulations to BMC Nephrology's Drs. Insa Schmidt, Ashish Verma, Sushrut Waikar and fellow authors of the paper The use of plasma biomarker-derived clusters for clinicopathologic phenotyping: results from the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort recently published in the Clinical Kidney Journal! Dr. Insa Schmidt and Dr. Sophie Claudel have additionally received a CTSI... More
Aldosterone in chronic kidney disease and renal outcomes
Please read Dr. Ashish Verma's new publication in European Heart Journal. Link Below: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac352/6652163?searchresult=1
Fellowship Graduate Spotlight: Dr. Najia Idrees
Congratulations to Dr. Najia Idrees, MD, a recent graduate of Boston University and Boston Medical Center’s Nephrology Fellowship Training Program! Originally from Pakistan, Najia joined BMC as a fellow in 2020 after choosing to pursue medicine due to her passion to serve and make a difference. She was drawn to... More