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Your Care Team

UPMC Kidney Disease Center Experts

Thomas Kleyman, MD
Chief of Nephrology 

Manisha Jhamb, MD, MPH
Associate Chief of Nephrology

Christopher J. Passero, MD
Clinical Director of Nephrology

Jane Schell, MD, MHS
Medical Director, UPMC Renal Supportive Care Clinic. 

Syeda Ahmad, MD
Medical Director, Center for Glomerular Diseases

Pooja Deepak Amarapurkar, MD
Medical Director, UPMC Oncology/Nephrology Clinic

Blaise Abramovitz, DO

Amar Bansal, MD

Filitsa Bender, MD

Alexandra Bursic, MD

Aravind Cherukuri, MBBS 

Robert Denshaw, MD

Ranil DeSilva, MD

Yan Dorneich, MD

Laurence Friedman, MD 

Hoda Kaldas, MD

Nitin Kamat, MD

Hussain Karimi, MD

Rajil Mehta, MD

Chethen Puttarajappa, MD

Amoghavarsha Puli, MD

Evan Ray, MD, PhD

Helbert Rondon, MD

David Rothstein, MD

Ramya Sahasranamam, MD

Nirav Shah, MD

Akhil Sharma, MD

Cary Boyd Shiwarski, MD

Roderick Tan, MD, PhD

Jyotsana Thakkar, MD

Linda-Marie Ustaris Lavenburg, DO

Christine Wu, MD

UPMC Nephrology Experts at the VA Pittsburgh

Geetha Chalasani, MD

John Hotchkiss, MD

Paul Palevsky, MD

Mohan Ramkumar, MD

Arohan Subramanya, MD

Steven Weisbord, MD, MSc

Contact the UPMC Kidney Disease Center

To discuss your kidney disease with one of our experts: