Title(s):
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Appointment Phone:
410-955-0670
Primary Location:
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Expertise:
General Internal Medicine, Incompatible Kidney Transplant, Kidney Transplant, Pancreas Transplant
Education and Experience
Training
- Faculty of Medicine - Aleppo Unviersity (Aleppo )/ (1994)
Residencies
- Wright State University School of Medicine - GME (Dayton OH)/ Internal Medicine (2004)
- Faculty of Medicine - Aleppo Unviersity (Aleppo )/ Internal Medicine (1997)
Fellowships
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore MD)/ Renal Medicine (2008)
Certifications
- Nephrology, American Board of Internal Medicine (2008)
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (2004)
Locations
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 N. Wolfe Street
720 Rutland Avenue Room Ross 971
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410-955-5029
Appointment Phone: 410-955-0670
Fax: 410-614-1643
Location Map
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
601 N. Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD 21287
Appointment Phone: 410-955-0670
Location Map
Department / Division
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Medicine - Nephrology
Centers/Institutes
Centers / Institutes
- Comprehensive Transplant Center
Bio
Awards and Honors
Ranked first in class of final year of Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria
Expertise
- General Internal Medicine
- Incompatible Kidney Transplant
- Kidney Transplant
- Pancreas Transplant
Professional Highlights
My clinical and research interests are finding non invasive tools to diagnose kidney transplant dysfunction.
Also, managing and monitoring highly sensitized patients to provide a desensitization treatment to enable them to receive deceased donor kidney transplant successfully.
Also, managing and monitoring highly sensitized patients to provide a desensitization treatment to enable them to receive deceased donor kidney transplant successfully.
Research
Research and Publications
Post Transplant Day 2 Serum and Urine Inflammatory Biomarkers Predict Early Acute Rejection and Acute Tubular Necrosis on Biopsy and Delayed Graft function; Nada Alachkar, Richard Ugarte, Edmund Huang, Karl Womer, Robert Montgomery, Edward Kraus and Hamid Rabb. Transplant Nephrology and Transplant Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Poster presented at the ASN Renal Week in November 2008
Research Interests
- Biomarker in Kidney transplant
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Languages
- English
- Arabic
Memberships
American Society of Nephrology
American Society of Transplantation
American Society of Transplantation
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