Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Medicine
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2021 - Present
Medicine, Nephrology,
Medicine
Associate Professor in Surgery
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2025 - Present
Surgery, Abdominal Transplant Surgery,
Surgery
Recent Publications
Rice Diet Improves Survival, Blood Pressure, and Eye Changes in 544 Patients with Malignant-Hypertension
Preprint · January 12, 2026 Full text CiteTreating Malignant Hypertension With the Low-Sodium, Low-Protein, and Low-Fat Rice Diet.
Journal Article Hypertension · January 2026 BACKGROUND: The rice diet (RD), a low-sodium (<200 mg/d), low-protein (≈20 g/d), and low-fat (<5 g/d) diet was used to treat patients with malignant hypertension beginning in the 1940s, before any effective antihypertensive drugs were available. We retrosp ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteDe novo donor specific antibody (dnDSA) development with tacrolimus versus Belatacept based regimens in kidney transplant recipients.
Journal Article Transpl Immunol · December 2025 PURPOSE: Belatacept has been associated with less de novo specific antibody (dnDSA) development, but few publications have compared the incidence of dnDSA development between tacrolimus and belatacept-based immunosuppression regimens. The purpose of this s ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter, Randomized Phase 2 Trial Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Felzartamab in Recipients of Kidney Transplants with Late Isolated Microvascular Inflammation (MVI) - (TRANSPIRE)
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Biogen MA, Inc. · 2026 - 2031A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter, Randomized Phase 3 Trial Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Felzartamab in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Late Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR) (TRANSCEND)
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Biogen MA, Inc. · 2025 - 2030Targeting the B Cell Response to Treat Antibody-Mediated Rejection
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2021 - 2028View All Grants
Education
Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine ·
2002
M.D.