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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

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

Puneet Sood, MD
Medical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant

Syeda Ahmad, MD
Medical Director, Center for Glomerular Diseases


Blaise Abramovitz, DO

Amar Bansal, MD

Filitsa Bender, MD

Aravind Cherukuri, MBBS

Pooja Deepak Amarapurkar, MD

Robert Denshaw, MD

Ranil DeSilva, MD

Yan Dorneich, MD

Laurence Friedman, MD

Ambreen Gul, MD

Sundaram Hariharan, MD

Hunter Huston, MD

Hoda Kaldas, MD

Nitin Kamat, MD

Rajil Mehta, MD

Christopher Passero, 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: