Shah, Ankur

Ankur Shah

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator

Overview

Ankur Shah, MD MPH is Associate Chief for Research, Nephrology Fellowship Program Director, and Medical Director for Peritoneal Dialysis in the Davita North-Providence program in the Division of Kidney Disease and Hypertension at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is an expert in home dialysis (both PD and HHD) and the intersection of planetary health and kidney disease, areas in which he is well published and has lectured both nationally and internationally. His research is supported by NIGMS, AHRQ, Advance-CTR, Brown Physicians Inc, Rhode Island Life Science Hub, and the SURDNA Foundation. He is also a decorated educator having received numerous teaching awards at Brown and is a past winner of the American Society of Nephrology’s innovations in kidney education contest. He serves on various committees of the ASN, RPA, and ISPD including as Chair of the ISPD Early Career Committee and the ISPD-NAC Policy Committee.

Brown Affiliations

Medicine

Research Areas

Home Dialysis | Home Hemodialysis | Peritoneal Dialysis

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Tang KS, Shah AD. "Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in end-stage kidney disease: dangerous or underutilized?." Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy, 2021, pp. 1-9.

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Reese PP, Glanz K, Shah A, Mussell A, Levsky S, Shuda L, Shults J, Kessler JB. "A Randomized Trial of Theory-Informed Appeals for Organ Donor Registration Using Internet Advertisements." Kidney International Reports, vol. 5, no. 12, 2020, pp. 2238-2245.

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Garcia CM, McKenna J, Fan L, Shah A. "Corynebacterium Striatum Bacteremia in End-Stage Renal Disease: A Case Series and Review of Literature." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 103, no. 8, 2020, pp. 46-49.

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Shah AD, Calabro-Kailukaitis N. "COVID-19 and ESKD, A Rapid Review." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 103, no. 8, 2020, pp. 29-33.

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Shah AD, Hu SL, Kerns ES. "Hemoperitoneum after CPR in a peritoneal dialysis patient." Peritoneal Dialysis International, vol. 40, no. 2, 2020, pp. 237-238.

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Shah A, Hu SL. "Kidney Failure with Urinary Tract Cancers." Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, vol. 15, no. 4, 2020, pp. 447-449.

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Sachdeva M, Shah AD, Singh HK, Malieckal DA, Rangaswami J, Jhaveri KD. "Opportunities for Subspecialization in Nephrology." Advances in chronic kidney disease, vol. 27, no. 4, 2020, pp. 320-327.e1.

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Bahrainwala JZ, Gelfand SL, Shah A, Abramovitz B, Hoffman B, Leonberg-Yoo AK. "Preoperative Risk Assessment and Management in Adults Receiving Maintenance Dialysis and Those With Earlier Stages of CKD." American Journal of Kidney Diseases, vol. 75, no. 2, 2020, pp. 245-255.

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Gandhi, Pulkit, Gandhi, Roopali Goyal, Shah, Ankur D. "When CKD-MBD is not just CKD-MBD, a case of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy in a dialysis patient." Journal of Onco-Nephrology, vol. 4, no. 3, 2020, pp. 128-131.

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Tang KS, Medeiros ED, Shah AD. "Wide pulse pressure: A clinical review." The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, vol. 22, no. 11, 2020, pp. 1960-1967.

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Shah A, Kumar V, Palmer MB, Trofe-Clark J, Laskin B, Sawinski D, Hogan JJ. "Native kidney BK virus nephropathy, a systematic review." Transplant Infectious Disease, vol. 21, no. 4, 2019, pp. e13083.

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Portales Castillo I, Thomas T, Shah A. "A Simple Case of Hyponatremia?." American Journal of Kidney Diseases, vol. 72, no. 6, 2018, pp. A12-A14.

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Background

Education and Training

Year	Degree	Institution
2013	MD	University of Medicine/Dentistry of New Jersey
2008	BS	Drexel University

Postdoctoral/Other Training

Fellowship	University of Pennsylvania, nephrology	2016-2018	Philadelphia, PA
Residency	Temple University, internal medicine	2013-2016	Philadelphia, PA

Honors and Awards

2015 Peer Voted “Night Owl” Resident of the year, Temple University Hospital
2015 American Society of Nephrology Kidney Stars Travel Grant
2016 Peer Voted Most Outstanding PGY-3 Resident, Temple University Hospital
2017-2018 Chief Fellow in Nephrology, University of Pennsylvania
2019 Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology
2019 Fellow of the National Kidney Foundation
2020 Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2020 Department of Medicine Teaching Award, Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University
2020 American Society of Nephrology Innovations in Kidney Education Contest Finalist
2021 Nephrology Fellowship Outstanding Teaching Award, Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University
2021 American Society of Nephrology Innovations in Kidney Education Contest Winner
2021 Fellow of the American College of Physicians
2023 “40 Under Forty”, Providence Business News
2023 Positive Champion of the Learning Environment Award, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2024 “40 Under Forty”, Drexel University Alumni

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Collaborators

Name	Title
Barth, Peter	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Calabro-Kailukaitis, Nathan	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Hu, Susie	Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medical Science
Kerns, Eric	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Lynch, Matthew	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Sanzen, Kelley	Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Affiliations

American Society of Nephrology

American College of Physicians

National Kidney Foundation

International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis

Renal Physicians Association

American Medical Assosciation

Researchers@Brown

Researchers@Brown

Ankur Shah

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator

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