Nephrology Medicine Faculty
Endowed PROFESSOR
Deepak Malhotra, M.D., Ph.D., FASN, FACP
Faculty Appointments: Endowed Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Nephrology,听 Director of Nephrology
Training Program
Degrees:听MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; PhD, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH
搁别蝉颈诲别苍肠测:听Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Fellowship: Renal Diseases at University of Colorado, Denver, CO
Board Certified:听Internal Medicine / Nephrology
PROFESSORs
Lance Dworkin, M.D.
Faculty Appointments: Professor and听Mercy Health Endowed Chair in Education, Department of Medicine; Academic
Chief of Medicine, ProMedica Health System
Degree:听MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Residency: Internal Medicine at New York University and Bellevue Hospitals, New York, NY
Fellowships: Internal Medicine and Nephrology (Clinical & Research) at Harvard Medical School and
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA
Board Certified:听Internal Medicine / Nephrology
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Rujun Gong, M.D., Ph.D., FASN
Faculty Appointments:听Professor of Medicine, Vice Chairman of Research for the Department of Medicine, Director
of Kidney Research for the Division of Nephrology
Degrees:听MD, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China; PhD, Renal Physiology
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Residency: Internal Medicine at Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
Fellowships: Nephrology at Research Institute of Nephrology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;
Research at Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI
Dinkar Kaw, M.D.
Faculty Appointment:听Professor of Medicine听
Degree:听MD, University of Kashmir Medical College, Srinagar, India
Residencies:听Internal Medicine at Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH; Internal Medicine at Sher-I-Kashmir
Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar Kashmir, India; Obstetrics and Gynecology
at Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigah, India; Pediatrics at Associated
Hospitals of Medical College, Kashmir, India
Fellowship: Nephrology at Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH
Board Certified:听Internal Medicine / Nephrology
Shobha Ratnam, M.D., Ph.D.
Faculty Appointments: Director of Nephrology Training Program, Professor of Medicine听
Degree:听MD, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH; PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular, Medical
University of Ohio, Toledo, OH
搁别蝉颈诲别苍肠测:听Internal Medicine at the Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH
Fellowship: Nephrology at the Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH
Board Certified: Internal Medicine / Nephrology
Joseph I. Shapiro, M.D.
Faculty Appointments: Professor of Medicine听
Degree: MD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
Residency: Internal Medicine at MedStar Health/Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Fellowship: Renal Diseases at University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Board Certified: Internal Medicine / Nephrology
Associate Professors
Alexei Fedorov, Ph.D.
Faculty Appointments: Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Bioinformatics Laboratory
Degrees: MSc Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; PhD, Molecular Genetics Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Fellowships: The Biological Laboratories at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Department of Physiology
at University of Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables, FL; Sussex Centre for Neuroscience
(IRC) at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Samer Akrawi, M.D.
Faculty Appointments: Assistant Professor of Medicine
Degrees: MD University of Baghdad College of Medicine, Iraq
Residency: Internal Medicine at St. Joseph Mercy, Ann Arbor, MI
Fellowship: Nephrology at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Board Certified: Internal Medicine and Nephrology
Zubia Alam, M.D.
Faculty Appointment:听Assistant Professor of Medicine
Degree: MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
搁别蝉颈诲别苍肠测:听Internal Medicine at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown Rhode Island Hospital,
Providence, RI听
Fellowship:听 Nephrology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School, Boston,
MA
Board Certified: Internal Medicine / Nephrology
听
Muhammad Usman Ali, M.D.
Faculty Appointment: Assistant Professor of Medicine
Degree: MD, The University of Lahore (MBBS), Lahore, Pakistan
Residency: Internal medicine at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, Pennsylvania听
Fellowship: Nephrology and Critical Care at The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Critical Care
听