Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Medicine
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2024 - Present
Medicine, Nephrology,
Medicine
Associate Professor in Surgery
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2024 - Present
Surgery, Abdominal Transplant Surgery,
Surgery
Recent Publications
Assessing blood culture appropriateness in solid organ transplant recipients: a diagnostic stewardship approach.
Journal Article Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · September 29, 2025 OBJECTIVE: Diagnostic stewardship of blood culture utilization is important to mitigate the risks associated with unnecessary culturing. Although blood culture algorithms have been studied previously, there is a lack of data on their application among soli ... Full text Link to item CiteOff-label use of alemtuzumab, belatacept, and rapamycin in kidney transplantation-Long-term real-world experience.
Journal Article Am J Transplant · September 12, 2025 Conventional immunosuppressive regimens in kidney transplantation continue to pose significant challenges, largely due to their reliance on calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) and corticosteroids. These challenges have driven the search for alternative regimens ... Full text Link to item CiteHidden in the Absence: Clinicopathologic Insights on Kidney Diseases Associated With Selective IgA Deficiency.
Journal Article Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology · July 2025 Selective IgA deficiency (sIgAD) is the most common type of primary immunodeficiency. The diagnosis of sIgAD has occasionally been suggested when a complete absence of background IgA immunofluorescent staining on renal biopsies was observed, but such findi ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
APOL1 Long-term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Network (APOLLO) Clinical Centers
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Wake Forest University Health Sciences · 2018 - 2028Helping Patients Achieve Kidney Transplants through Health System Change
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Wake Forest University Health Sciences · 2023 - 2026EVALUATION OF PATIENT OUTCOMES FROM THE KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT OUTCOMES ALLOSURE REGISTRY (KOAR)
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by CareDx, Inc. · 2020 - 2025View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Duke University ·
2002
M.D.