SushrutSWaikarMD

Nephrology • Boston, MA

Acute Renal Failure, Chronic Renal Failure & Dialysis

Chief of Nephrology, Boston Medical Center & Norman G. Levinsky Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

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Office
725 Albany St
# Shapiro
Boston, MA 02118
Phone+1 617-414-8680

Fax+1 617-414-8664

Education & Training

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Nephrology, 2003 - 2006
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2002
Yale School of MedicineClass of 1998

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2000 - Present
MA State Medical License 2002 - 2026
American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology

Clinical Trials

Mannitol - Potential Role in Hemodialysis Initiation for Reduction of Intra-dialytic Hypotension Start of enrollment: 2012 May 01
Completed
Phase 2
Randomized Controlled Trial of Calcitriol vs. Placebo Among Critically-ill Patients With Sepsis Start of enrollment: 2013 Feb 01
Completed
Phase 2
A Prospective Observational Study to Evaluate Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers In Patients Receiving First Cycle of Cisplatin Chemotherapy for Head and Neck Cancers Start of enrollment: 2012 Sep 01
Unknown status
Trial of Dialysate Sodium in Chronic Hospitalized Hemodialysis Patients Start of enrollment: 2014 Jul 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Evaluation of Catheter Placement for Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients With Acute Kidney Injury Start of enrollment: 2013 Jan 01
Completed
Renal Mechanism of SGLT2 Inhibition Start of enrollment: 2022 Oct 10
Recruiting
Phase 2
Roles: Contact
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

The relationship between low levels of albuminuria and mortality among adults without major cardiovascular risk factors.
Sophie E Claudel, Sushrut S Waikar, Insa M Schmidt, Ramachandran S Vasan, Ashish Verma
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2024-12-04
Circulating Protein and Metabolite Correlates of Histologically Confirmed Diabetic Kidney Disease.
Carolina Lopez-Silva, Aditya Surapaneni, Insa M Schmidt, Dhairya Upadhyay, Anand Srivastava
Kidney Medicine. 2024-12-01
Proteomics and Incident Kidney Failure in Individuals With CKD: The African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension and the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort.
Teresa K Chen, Aditya L Surapaneni, Insa M Schmidt, Sushrut S Waikar, Josef Coresh
Kidney Medicine. 2024-12-01

Journal Articles

De Novo NAD+ Biosynthetic Impairment in Acute Kidney Injury in Humans
Ravi I Thadhani, Kenneth M Ralto, Charbel C Khoury, Kamal R Khabbaz, Vaughan Washco, David E Leaf, Adam Lerner, Eugene P Rhee, Sushrut S Waikar, Steven H Kim, Shoshana..., Nature
Biological Variability of Estimated GFR and Albuminuria in CKD
Sushrut S Waikar, Chi-Yuan Hsu, Harold I Feldman, Kathleen D Liu, Joseph V Bonventre, Lesley A Inker, American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Authored Content

Biological Variability of Estimated GFR and Albuminuria in CKDJuly 2018
Renal Functional Reserve RevisitedMay 2018
Renal Functional Reserve RevisitedMay 2018

Press Mentions

Press ReleasesMarch 6th, 2023
Massachusetts’ Top Health Official Has Major Conflicts of Interest with Big PharmaMarch 5th, 2020
Urinary Angiotensinogen Antedates the Development of Stage 3 CKD in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes MellitusOctober 11th, 2019
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