Sapna Shah, MD

Title(s)Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Clinician Educator)
SchoolKeck School of Medicine of Usc
Address2020 Zonal Ave. IRD806
Health Sciences Campus
Los Angeles CA 90033
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    Title(s)Associate Program Director for Nephrology Fellowship

    Title(s)Associate Program Director for Transplant Nephrology Fellowship


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    Dr. Shah joined the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Keck School of Medicine in 2019 and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. She grew up in Illinois, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, medical degree from St. George's University, has completed her residency at Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York, and fellowship in both nephrology and transplant nephrology fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. SInai in New York. She is conversational in Spanish and Gujrati. Dr. Shah is a member of several prestigious societies, including the American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Transplantation, and Women in Nephrology.

    Along with clinical duties, Dr. Shah is also involved in medical education at the level of medical students, residents, fellows, and transplant nephrology fellows. She currently serves as the Chair for the Renal System for the USC Medical School, assistant program director for the nephrology fellowship and transplant nephrology fellowship.

    Dr. Shah is also an avid researcher. She is currently studying areas of related to biomarkers in kidney transplantation, infections seen following transplantation, and strategies to personalize immunnosuppression in transplant patients. She has been invited to speak at the local and national level at many prestigous conferences.

    Her areas of clinical expertise include management of kidney and pancreas transplant recipients, management of chronic kidney disease in patients with other organ transplants (lung, liver, heart, bone marrow), and pregnancy in transplantation.

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    1. KRT in Patients with AKI and Cirrhosis. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jul 01; 19(7):914-916. Shah SV, Nadim MK. PMID: 38439153.
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    2. Management of the kidney transplant recipient in the intensive care unit. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2023 12 01; 29(6):587-594. Voora S, Shah S, Nadim MK. PMID: 37861189.
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    3. Sweet's Syndrome: A First in Human Lung Transplantation. Chest. 2021 08; 160(2):e173-e176. Ramsey AL, Wallace WD, Abtin F, Suh JD, Liang LL, Shah S, Lynch JP, Belperio J, Derhovanessian A, Britton I, Sayah DM, Shino MY, Weigt SS, Saggar R. PMID: 34366039; PMCID: PMC8411443.
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    4. APOL1 high-risk genotypes and renal transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2019 Jun; 33(6):e13582. Shah S, Shapiro R, Murphy B, Menon MC. PMID: 31050035.
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    5. Molecular Mechanisms of Proteinuria in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. Front Med (Lausanne). 2018; 5:98. Wen Y, Shah S, Campbell KN. PMID: 29713631; PMCID: PMC5912003.
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    6. An 80-Year-Old Man With Dyspnea and Bilateral Pleural Effusions After Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Cell Carcinoma. Chest. 2016 May; 149(5):e147-50. Gupta A, Farokhi M, Shah S, McGarry T, Warshawsky M, Epelbaum O. PMID: 27157230.
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