UConn Health
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
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
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
Ibrahim Elali, M.D., FACP
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Inpatient Dialysis and Plasmapheresis Services Unit
Areas of Interest:
- Dialysis
- Plasmapheresis
- Glomerular diseases
- Kidney disease during pregnancy
- Kidney stones
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
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
Sankar Niranjan, M.D., FASN
(Previously Niranjan Sankaranarayanan, July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2004)
Assistant Clinical Professor
Fellowship Site Director
Areas of Interest:
- Diagnosis/management of acute and chronic kidney diseases
- Dialysis therapies (peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis) and plasmapheresis
- Managing challenging and complex cases of hypertension
Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
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