Overview
Dinushika Mohottige is Assistant Professor in Institute of Health Equity Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology. She received a B.A. in Public Policy and a Health Policy Certificate from Duke University in 2006, where she was a Robertson Scholar. She then earned an MPH in Health Behavior/Health Education from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, followed by Internal Medicine/Chief Residency and Nephrology training at Duke University. She engages in patient and community-centered, inequity-focused research around the impact of socio-structural factors/racialized medicine on kidney health and kidney transplantation.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine
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2022 - Present
Medicine, Nephrology,
Medicine
Recent Publications
Harms of terminating NIH grants for kidney disease.
Journal Article Nat Rev Nephrol · December 2025 Full text Link to item CiteForging a path toward kidney transplant equity through multilevel interventions.
Journal Article Curr Opin Organ Transplant · October 1, 2025 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Persistent disparities in access to kidney transplantation, particularly living donor transplant and preemptive transplant, have gained increasing national attention including efforts to describe their multifactorial root causes. Multile ... Full text Link to item CiteOptimizing Care for Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome: Leveraging Implementation Science in the Path Toward Pharmacoequity.
Journal Article Curr Cardiol Rep · August 12, 2025 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Overview the current landscape of pharmacoequity in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome. RECENT FINDINGS: CKM syndrome is a key driver of the significant morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular disease, and pose ... Full text Link to item CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Medicine ·
2013
M.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
2008
M.P.H.