Lali (Lalarukh) Haider, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, UConn Health
Training Program Director, Nephrology Fellowship
Medical Director, Home Dialysis, DCI Farmington

Areas of Interest:

• Management of chronic kidney disease
• Hospital-based consultative nephrology
• Medical education for residents and students
• General clinical nephrology
• Fabry disease

William P. Ackley, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Srimathi Manickaratnam, M.D., MRCP(UK)
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Naseer Shirazi, M.B.B.S., M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Ruchir Trivedi, M.D., M.Sci., MRCP (UK)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, UConn Health Avon DCI Dialysis Unit
Site Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
Course Co-Director, 2nd Year Medical School, CoRE B, UConn School of Medicine
Key Faculty, Internal Medicine Residency Program

Areas of Interest:

• General clinical nephrology, management of chronic kidney disease and lupus-related kidney disease
• Dialysis and blood purification techniques, such as hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis, CRRT and plasmapheresis
• Medical education
• Critical care nephrology

Yanlin Wang, M.D., Ph.D., FASN
Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology
Chief, Division of Nephrology

Areas of Interest:

• Chronic kidney disease
• Hypertension
• Electrolyte disorders
• Dialysis

Emeritus

Nancy Day Adams, M.D.
Professor and Chief Emeritus
American Society of Nephrology Education Director for Fellowship Training
Chair

Areas of Interest:

• Chronic kidney disease
• Kidney stones
• Fabry disease

Andre Kaplan, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Medical Director and Fellowship Site Director
UConn Dialysis DCI

Areas of Interest:

• Plasmapheresis
• Nitrogen kinetics
• Continuous hemofiltration
• Dialysis
• Blood purification
• Acute renal failure

Joseph Palmisano, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Nephrology - Critical Care, UConn John Dempsey Hospital

Namrata Krishnan, M.B.B.S.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Fellowship Site Director

Areas of Interest:

• AKI
• Critical care nephrology especially with regards to continuous hemodialysis
• Renal transplantation
• Vascular calcification and metabolic bone disease in CKD

Achievements:

• Renal transplant clinic eirector at the VAMC and site program director for Yale and UConn Nephrology Fellowship Programs
• Setting up quality and outreach program to monitor VA fee-based dialysis patients being dialyzed in community units