Our Expert Team

Anjay Rastogi, MD, Ph.D

Professor of Medicine & Clinical Chief of Nephrology

Director, CORE Kidney Program

Director, ESRD | Dialysis Program

Director, Nephrology Clinical Research Office

Director, PKD | Fabry | Alport Program

Medical Director, Living Kidney Donor Program

UCLA Medical Centers

Specialty: Dialysis, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Diabetic Kidney Disease, Fabry's Disease, Alport Syndrome, Living Kidney Donors, Clinical Research, General Nephrology

Contact: (310) 954-2692

Niloofar Nobakht, MD, FASN

Director, Clinical Music Program

Associate Director, CORE Kidney Program

Director, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Program

Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Specialty: Hypertension, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Living Kidney Donors, Chronic Kidney Disease

Clinical Trials Research: Polycystic Kidney Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease, Alport Syndrome, Fabry's Disease

Contact: (310) 954-2692

Mohammad Kamgar, MD

Associate Director, CORE Kidney Program

Nephrology Fellowship Program Director

Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Specialty: General Nephrology, Kidney Transplantation, Hypertension, Chronic Kidney Diseases, Proteinuria, Hematuria, Kidney Stones, Glomerular Diseases, Acute Kidney Injury, Fluid Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders

Contact: (310) 206-8277

Ray Reza Goshtaseb, MD

Specialty: Internal Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology

Contact: (310) 481-4228

Kristine Sarmsoyan, MD

Specialty: Internal Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology

Contact: 800-825-2631

Basmah Abdalla, MD

HS Assistant Clinical Professor

Specialty: General Nephrology, Renal Transplantation

Contact: (310) 267-2555

Rebecca S. Ahdoot, MD

Specialty: Medicine, Nephrology

Contact: (310) 206-7662

Lama Abdelnour, MD

Clinical instructor

Specialty: Nephrology, Hypertension, Glomerulonephritis

Contact: (310)-481-4228

Ronald Busuttil, MD

Specialty: Surgery, Transplant

Department Affiliation:Surgery

Hospital Affiliation:Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Contact: (310)825-5318

Xavier Cagigas, MD

Specialty: Psychologist, Clinical Neuropsychologist

Contact: (310) 206-8100

Gabriel M. Danovitch, MD

John J. Kuiper Chair of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation

Distinguished Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Medical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, Ronald Reagan Medical Center at UCLA

Specialty: General Nephrology, Renal Transplantation

Contact: (310) 267-2555

Matthew Dunn, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Urology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Specialty: General Adult Urology, Kidney Stone Center

Contact: (310) 794-7700

Bethany Durbin, RN, BSN, CPTC, CCTC

Transplant Coordinator II

Specialty: Kidney & Pancreas Transplant

Research Interests: Researching frailty in the setting of kidney transplant candidacy

Contact: (310) 267-6905

Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Co-Chief, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases
Director, Melvin and Bren Simon Digestive Diseases Center
Lincy Foundation Chair in Clinical Gastroenterology

Specialty: Medicine, Gastroenterology

Contact: (310)-206-0517

Matthew J. Freeby, MD

Director, Gonda Diabetes Center

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

Associate Director of Diabetes Clinical Programs

Specialty: Medicine, Endocrinology - Diabetes and Metabolism

Contact: (310) 899-7633

Hugh Gelabert, MD

Specialty: Vascular Surgery

Contact: (310)-206-6294

Richard Glassock, MD, MACP

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Specialty: Medicine, Nephrology

Contact: (949) 388-8885

Hans A. Gritsch

Professor of Urology, Surgical Director of Renal Transplantation and Living Kidney Donation

Specialty: Urology, Surgery, Transplant

Department Affiliation:Urology

Languages:Spanish, German

Contact: (310) 794-7700

Maria A. Han, MD

Chief Quality Officer, Department of Medicine.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine.

Specialty: Internal Medicine.

Research Interests: Population Health, Quality Improvement, Primary Care, Practice Transformation

Contact: (310) 794 9830

Huma Hasnain, MD

HS Assistant Clinical Professor

Specialty: General Nephrology, Acute Kidney Injury, Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypertension, Fluid Electrolyte and Acid-Base Abnormalities

Contact: (310) 257-0028

Oscar J. Hines, MD

Chief of the Division of General Surgery

Director of the UCLA Agi Hirshberg Center for Pancreatic Disease

Vice Chair of Administration for the Department of Surgery

Director of the American Board of Surgery

Specialty: Surgery

Contact: (310) 794-7788

Igor Kagan, MD

HS Clinical Instructor

Co-Director General Nephrology Fellowship
Specialty: General Nephrology, Chronic Kidney Disease, Acute Kidney Injury, Dialysis, Hypertension, Proteinuria
Contact: (805) 418-3500

Reza Khorsan, MD

Medical Director, In-Center Hemodialysis at Mars Vista DaVita Dialysis Center
HS Assistant Clinical Professor
Nephrology Fellowship Program Director

Specialty: General Nephrology, Hemodialysis, Hypertension, Kidney Transplantation

Contact: (310) 481-4228

Michael Lee, MD

Specialty: Medicine, Cardiology/Cardiovascular Disease, Medicine, Interventional Cardiology

Department Affiliation:Medicine

Contact: (310) 825-8811

Zhaoping Li, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Contact: (310) 206-1987

Erik L. Lum, MD, FASN

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

Medical Director, HLA Incompatible and Desensitization Kidney Transplant Program

Specialty: General Nephrology, Renal Transplantation, Highly Sensitized Transplantation, Living Kidney Donation

Contact: (310) 267-2555

Ramya R. Malchira, MD

Specialty: Hospitalist, Nephrology

Contact: (661) 753-5464

John Moriarty, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology & Medicine (Cardiology)
Director of UCLA IVC Filter CLinic
Director of Cardiology-IR Innovation
Co-Director of Vascular Ultrasound

Specialty: Surgery, Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging, Interventional Radiology

Contact: (310) 267-7838

Minhtri K. Nguyen, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director, Consultative Nephrology

Specialty: General Nephrology, Hypertension, Fluid Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders

Contact: (310) 206-7662

Allen Nissenson, MD, FACP, FASN, FNKF

Chief Medical Officer and Senior VP, DaVita Kidney Care

Emeritus Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Specialty: Nephrology

Joe Ephantus Njue

Manager of Peritoneal Dialysis Program

Specialty: Peritoneal Dialysis, Nephrology.

Nishant Patel, MD
Assistant Professor, Endurology & Stone Disease

Specialty: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, Bladder Stone, Kidney Stone, Robotic Surgery-Kidney, Ureteral Stone

Contact: (310) 794-7700

Michael A. Pfeffer, MD, FACP

Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer

UCLA Health Sciences

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Specialty: Medicine, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine

Contact: (310) 319-4698

Phuong-Thu T. Pham, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Director, Outpatient Services

Kidney Transplant Program

Specialty: Nephrology, Kidney Transplantation

Languages: French, Vietnamese

Contact: (310)267-2555

Bianca E. Russell, M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor

Assistant Program Director, Genetics Training Program

Division of Pediatric Genetics

Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Russell is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Genetics. She obtained her medical degree from the University of California, Irvine and completed her combined pediatrics and human genetics residency and metabolic fellowship at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Russell sees general genetics patients as well as metabolic patients at UCLA and is involved in the Newborn Screening process and clinical research on disorders caused by genetic changes in the ASXL gene family.

Specialty: Pediatric Genetics

Contact: (310) 206-6581

Sammy Saab, MD, MPH, AGAF, FFASLD, FACG

Professor of Medicine and Surgery

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Head, Outcomes Research in Hepatology

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Specialty: Surgery

Department Affiliation:Medicine

Languages: Spanish

Contact: (310) 206-6705

Saeed Sadeghi, MD

Specialty: Hematology, Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology

Contact: (310) 829-5471

Isidro Salusky, MD

Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Division Chief
Medical Director, Pediatric Dialysis Program

Specialty: Pediatrics, Nephrology

Carl E. Schulze, MD, FACP

HS Assistant Clinical Professor
Director of Nephrology - Plasmapheresis Services

Specialty: General Nephrology, Renal Transplantation, Glomerulonephritis, Autoimmune Kidney Disease, Renal Angiomyolipomas, Kidney Stones, Plasmapheresis, High Altitude Medicine

Research: Renal transplant, Glomerulonephritis, and Autoimmune Kidney Disease

Contact: (310) 481-4228

Practice Location: Santa Monica

Michael Shye, MD

Specialty: General Nephrology

Contact: (661) 753-5464

Paola A. Suarez, Ph.D.

Specialty: Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology

Contact: PSuarez@mednet.ucla.edu

Vijaya Surampudi, MD

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Contact: (310) 825-7921

Jeffrey L. Veale, MD

Specialty:Urology, Renal Transplantation

Department Affiliation:Urology

Contact: (310) 267-7727

Anthony C. Wang, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Specialty: Neurological Surgery, Pediatric, Cerebrovascular, and Complex Cranial Base Surgeries

Contact: (310) 825-5111

Amy Waterman, Ph.D

Professor in Residence, UCLA Nephrology

Deputy Director, Transplant Research and Education Center (TREC), Terasaki Research Institute

Quality Consultant, UCLA Kidney Transplant Center

Specialty: Living Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes, Informed Decision-Making, Racial Disparities, Economic and Public Policy Implications of Transplantation

Contact: (424) 901-0408

Andrew Watson, MD, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Medicine/Cardiology

Specialty: General Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Nuclear Stress Testing, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Congestive Heart Failure, Heart valve disease

Contact: (310) 825-9011

Patricia Weng, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics - Nephrology,

Medical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program

Specialty: Pediatrics, Nephrology

Contact: (424) 259-8570

James M. Wilson, MD

HS Associate Clinical Professor
Medical Director, UCLA Stone Center
Director, Surgical Consultative Nephrology

Director, Kidney Health Program

Specialty: General Nephrology, Kidney Stones, Hypertension, Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis, Post-organ (liver, heart, pancreas, small bowel, lung) Transplant Kidney Disease, Preventative Nephrology

Contact: (310) 206-8277