Chirag

R.

Parikh

,

MD

Dr. Chirag R. Parikh is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Division of Nephrology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Originally from India, Dr. Parikh attended medical school at the Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital in Mumbai. He then completed his internal medicine residency at the Nassau University Medical Center and SUNY at Stony Brook in New York, followed by his fellowship in Nephrology and Hypertension and UNOS Transplant Certification at the University of Colorado. While completing his fellowship, he also earned a doctorate in Clinical Investigation. Following this fellowship, he joined the Yale School of Medicine as the Director of the Program of Applied Translational Research, a Professor of Medicine and Investigative Medicine, and Professor of Medicine at the Clinical Epidemiology Research Center in the VA Connecticut Health Care System.

Dr. Parikh has several active NIH grants and has published over 250 original articles, which have been cited over 25,000 times in literature. His research focuses on the translation and validation of novel biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of acute kidney injury and diabetic kidney disease, and his studies have refined the clinical definitions of perioperative acute kidney injury and hepatorenal syndrome, have developed strategies to reduce kidney discard in deceased donor transplantation, and have advanced regulatory approvals of kidney injury biomarkers. He has also developed biomarkers to identify rapid progressors of early diabetic kidney disease before derangements in serum creatinine. Dr. Parikh’s research goal is to translate our understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms into clinical practice and to improve outcomes in patients with kidney disease.