EliotCHeherMD

Nephrology • Boston, MA

Medical Director, Kidney Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

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Office
55 Fruit St
Massachusetts General Hospital Bar 9
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-2241

Fax+1 617-724-1122
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Education & Training

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Nephrology, 2005 - 2007
Penn MedicinePost-Doctoral Fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, 1993 - 1995
Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Internal Medicine, 1990 - 1993
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1990

Certifications & Licensure

FL State Medical License 2021 - Present
NH State Medical License 2015 - 2025
ME State Medical License 2015 - 2025
MA State Medical License 2004 - 2025
PA State Medical License 1993 - 2004

Clinical Trials

BK Treatment Study Start of enrollment: 2009 Feb 01
Completed
Phase 4

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Characterizing the risk of human leukocyte antigen-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation in older recipients.
Jane J Long, Jennifer D Motter, Kyle R Jackson, Jennifer Chen, Babak J Orandi, Robert A Montgomery, Mark D Stegall, Stanley C Jordan, Enrico Benedetti, Ty B Dunn, Lloy...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2023 Dec 1
Addressing Transplant Candidacy When Evaluating Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulant Agents in Patients on Hemodialysis.
Eliot Heher, Nahel Elias> ;Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2021 Aug 18
2 citations
Center-level Variation in HLA-incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Outcomes.
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4 citations
Securing the future of kidney transplantation by addressing the challenges of transplant nephrology
Eliot Heher, Donald E. Hricik, Daniel C. Brennan> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2021 Jan 1
10 citations
Delayed graft function and acute rejection following HLA-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation
Jennifer D. Motter, Kyle R. Jackson, Jane J. Long, Madeleine M. Waldram, Babak J. Orandi, Robert A. Montgomery, Mark D. Stegall, Stanley C. Jordan, Enrico Benedetti, T...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2021 Feb 27
1 citations
Short Bowel Syndrome and Kidney Transplantation: Challenges, Outcomes, and the Use of Teduglutide.
Elizabeth Abou Diwan, Ankit B. Patel, Alex G. Cuenca, Nahel Elias, Hannah Gilligan, Eliot Heher, David E. Leaf, David Wojciechowski, Kassem Safa> ;Case Reports in Transplantation. 2020 Oct 5
14 citations
Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell and Kidney Transplantation for Hematological Malignancies and End-Stage Renal Failure
Yi Bin Chen, Nahel Elias, Eliot Heher, Jeannine S. McCune, Kerry Collier, Shuli Li, Candice Del Rio, Areej El-Jawahri, Winfred W. Williams, Nina Tolkoff-Rubin, Jay A. ...> ;Blood. 2019 Jul 11
10 citations
Improved survival with renal transplantation for end-stage renal disease due to granulomatosis with polyangiitis: data from the United States Renal Data System
Zachary S. Wallace, Rachel Wallwork, Yuqing Zhang, Na Lu, Frank B. Cortazar, John L. Niles, Eliot Heher, John H. Stone, Hyon K. Choi> ;Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2018 Sep 1
Response to the Letter to the Editor by Finsterer and Zarrouk-Mahjoub in Clin Nephrol Case Stud. 2018; 6: 1.
Kenneth Lim, David J.R. Steele, Andrew Z. Fenves, Ravi Thadhani, Eliot Heher, Amel Karaa> ;Clinical Nephrology. Case Studies. 2018 Jan 16
6 citations
Hemodialysis failure secondary to hydroxocobalamin exposure.
Kenneth Lim, Eliot Heher, David J.R. Steele, Andrew Z. Fenves, John K. Tucker, Ravi Thadhani, Kenneth B. Christopher, Nina Tolkoff-Rubin> ;Proceedings. 2017 Apr 1
40 citations
Association of Sirolimus Use With Risk for Skin Cancer in a Mixed-Organ Cohort of Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients With a History of Cancer.
Pritesh S. Karia, Jamil Azzi, Eliot Heher, Victoria M. Hills, Chrysalyne D. Schmults> ;JAMA Dermatology. 2016 May 1
8 citations
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis associated with mitochondrial disease.
Kenneth Lim, David J.R. Steele, Andrew Z. Fenves, Ravi Thadhani, Eliot Heher, Amel Karaa> ;Clinical Nephrology. Case Studies. 2017 Mar 3
5 citations
Voriconazole-Induced Periostitis & Enthesopathy in Solid Organ Transplant Patients: Case Reports.
Monica Sircar, Camille N. Kotton, David Wojciechowski, Kassem Safa, Hannah Gilligan, Eliot Heher, Winfred W. Williams, Ravi Thadhani, Nina Tolkoff-Rubin> ;Journal of Biosciences and Medicines. 2016 Nov 4
74 citations
Efficacy and Safety of Direct Acting Antivirals in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection.
Ming V. Lin, Meghan E. Sise, Martha Pavlakis, Beth Amundsen, Donald F. Chute, Anna E. Rutherford, Raymond T. Chung, Michael P. Curry, Jasmine M. Hanifi, Steve Gabardi,...> ;Plos One. 2016 Jul 14
14 citations
The Clearer BENEFITS of Belatacept
Eliot Heher, James F. Markmann> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016 Jan 27
1 citations
BK Virus After Kidney Transplantation: A Review of Screening and Treatment Strategies and a Summary of the Massachusetts General Hospital Experience.
Kassem Safa, Eliot Heher, Hannah Gilligan, Winfred W. Williams, Nina Tolkoff-Rubin, David Wojciechowski> ;Clinical Transplants. 2015 Jan 1
59 citations
Efficacy of Levofloxacin in the Treatment of BK Viremia: A Multicenter, Double-Blinded, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial
Belinda T. Lee, Steven Gabardi, Monica Grafals, R. Michael Hofmann, Enver Akalin, Aws Aljanabi, Didier A. Mandelbrot, Deborah Adey, Eliot Heher, Pang Yen Fan, Sarah Co...> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2014 Mar 7
98 citations
Kidney Disease and Multiple Myeloma
Eliot Heher, Helmut G. Rennke, Jacob P. Laubach, Paul G. Richardson> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2013 Nov 7
249 citations
Eculizumab for Dense Deposit Disease and C3 Glomerulonephritis
Andrew S. Bomback, Richard J.H. Smith, Gaetano R. Barile, Yuzhou Zhang, Eliot Heher, Leal Herlitz, M. Barry Stokes, Glen S. Markowitz, Vivette D. D'Agati, Pietro A. Ca...> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2012 May 1
64 citations
Preservation of blood pressure stability with hypertonic mannitol during hemodialysis initiation
Finnian R. Mc Causland, Lisa M. Prior, Eliot Heher, Sushrut S. Waikar> ;American Journal of Nephrology. 2012 Jan 1
4 citations
Renal allograft rupture: a strategy for graft preservation.
Finnian R. McCausland, Manish C. Varma, Eliot Heher, James F. Markmann, A. Benedict Cosimi, Nahel Elias, Dicken S.C. Ko, Tatsuo Kawai, R. Neal Smith, Goes, N., Nelson ...> ;Transplantation. 2011 May 15
19 citations
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Eliot Heher, Thomas R. Spitzer> ;Seminars in Nephrology. 2010 Nov 1
45 citations
Kidney disease associated with plasma cell dyscrasias
Eliot Heher, Thomas R. Spitzer, Noopur Raje, Benjamin D. Humphreys, Kenneth C. Anderson, Paul G. Richardson, Goes, N., Nelson Goes> ;Blood. 2010 Sep 2
6 citations
Light chains: heavy burden in kidney transplantation.
Eliot Heher, Thomas R. Spitzer, Goes, N., Nelson Goes> ;Transplantation. 2009 Apr 15
56 citations
Adverse Renal and Metabolic Effects Associated with Oral Sodium Phosphate Bowel Preparation
Eliot Heher, Samuel O. Thier, Helmut G. Rennke, Benjamin D. Humphreys> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2008 Sep 1
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Press Mentions

Recapping Days 1 & 2 of the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical MeetingApril 18th, 2022
How RSN’s Support Groups and a Clinical Trial Led to My New Post-Kidney-Transplant CareerMarch 1st, 2022
Former Boston City Councilor John Nucci ‘Resting Comfortably’ After Kidney TransplantJune 20th, 2018
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