Rafia Chaudhry, MD

HS Associate Clinical Prof

I am an academic clinical nephrologist, and serve as the Associate Program Director for the Nephrology Fellowship Program at UCSF, and Site Director for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

I am inspired by, and dedicated to medical education, and also served as the Associate Program Director for the Nephrology Fellowship Program at Albany Medical College from 2016-2018.

My clinical interests include renal vasculitis and peritoneal dialysis.

Education
Nephrology Fellowship, 06/2015 - Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Internal Medicine Residency, 06/2013 - Internal Medicine, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Peoria
M.B.B.S, 10/2008 - Medical College, The Aga Khan University
Honors and Awards
  • Nephrology Attending of the Year, Albany Medical College, 2018
  • Champion Program Honoree, Albany Medical Center, Albany NY, 2017-2018
Publications

  2. Mathew RO, Rosenson RS, Lyubarova R, Chaudhry R, Costa SP, Bangalore S, Sidhu MS. Concepts and Controversies: Lipid Management in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. Cardiovascular drugs and therapy 2020. PMID: 32556851


  3. Huppert LA, Hsiao EC, Cho KC, Marquez C, Chaudhry RI, Frank J, Goglin SE, Hsu G, Kathpalia P, Khanna R, Kompala T, Rao MN, Bower BA, Trafas V, Santhosh L, Schwartz BS, Babik JM. Virtual Interviews at Graduate Medical Education Training Programs: Determining Evidence-Based Best Practices. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2020. PMID: 33298691


  4. Zakher M, Chaudhry RI, Monrroy M, Daoui S, Daoui R, Salman L, Mehta S. Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Calciphylaxis. The American journal of the medical sciences 2020. PMID: 32736833


  5. Chaudhry RI, Chopra T, Fissell R, Golper TA. Strategies to Prevent Peritonitis after Procedures: Our Opinions. Peritoneal dialysis international : journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis 2019. PMID: 31296777


  6. Chaudhry R, Bilal A, Austin A, Mehta S, Salman L, Foulke L, Feustel P, Zuckerman R, Asif A. ANCA associated vasculitis: experience of a tertiary care referral center. Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia 2018. PMID: 30095143


  7. Chaudhry RI, Mathew RO, Sidhu MS, Sidhu-Adler P, Lyubarova R, Rangaswami J, Salman L, Asif A, Fleg JL, McCullough PA, Maddux F, Bangalore S. Detection of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in the Cardiology and Nephrology Communities. Cardiorenal medicine 2018. PMID: 30078001


  8. Nowak KL, Chonchol M, Ikizler TA, Farmer-Bailey H, Salas N, Chaudhry R, Wang W, Smits G, Tengesdal I, Dinarello CA, Hung AM. IL-1 Inhibition and Vascular Function in CKD. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2016. PMID: 27647856


  9. Chaudhry RI, Golper TA. Automated cyclers used in peritoneal dialysis: technical aspects for the clinician. Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) 2015. PMID: 25653566


  10. Ganatra HA, Bhurgri H, Channa R, Bawany FA, Zafar SN, Chaudhry RI, Batool SH, Basit A, Asghar M, Saleem S, Naqvi H. Educating and informing patients receiving psychopharmacological medications: are family physicians in Pakistan up to the task? PloS one 2009. PMID: 19247488


  11. Chopra T, Iheanyichukwu O, Chaudhry R, Golper T, Schulman G.. Depurative Modality Options Henrich’s Principles and Practice of Hemodialysis 5th edition. . PMID:


  12. Golper T, Chaudhry R, Iheanyichukwu O, Schulman G.. High Efficiency and High Flux Hemodialysis.
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