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Office
8300 Floyd Curl Drive
4th Floor -4B
San Antonio, TX 78229Phone+1 210-450-9650Fax+1 210-450-6036- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Kumar Sharma is Chief of Nephrology at UT Health San Antonio and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has been in academic medicine for 32 years. He is had continuous NIH funding for the past 30 years in the areas of diabetic nephropathy, obesity, clinical trials, multi-omics and mitochondrial dysfunction. He is presently funded by the NIH, VA, JDRF and DOD for precision medicine programs in acute and chronic kidney disease, diabetic complications and multi-organ injury and is the Director of the Center for Renal Precision Medicine at UTHSA.
Education & Training
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Nephrology, 1990 - 1994
- Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency, Internal Medicine, 1986 - 1989
- Temple University HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 1985 - 1986
- Albert Einstein College of MedicineClass of 1985
- Boston UniversityB.A., Biology, 1978 - 1981
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2007 - Present
- TX State Medical License 2018 - 2025
- PA State Medical License 1991 - 2008
- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Plenary Lecture Australian Society of Diabetes, 2014
- Robert Hearin Distinguished Lecture 2013
- NIDDK DP3 Award 2011
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Clinical Trials
- Pirfenidone: A New Drug to Treat Kidney Disease in Patients With Diabetes Start of enrollment: 2003 Jun 01
- Nicotinamide Riboside in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Patients for Renal Protection Start of enrollment: 2021 Jun 11
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Ketone production and excretion even during mild hyperglycemia and the impact of sodium-glucose co-transporter inhibition in type 1 diabetes.Daniel Scarr, Erik Lovblom, Hongping Ye, Hongyan Liu, Abdulmohsen Bakhsh, Natasha J Verhoeff, Thomas M S Wolever, Patrick R Lawler, Kumar Sharma, David Z I Cherney, Br...> ;Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 2024 Jan 1
- Metabolic Differences in Diabetic Kidney Disease Patients with Normoalbuminuria versus Moderately Increased Albuminuria.Stein I Hallan, Marius A Øvrehus, Manjula Darshi, Daniel Montemayor, Knut A Langlo, Per Bruheim, Kumar Sharma> ;Kidney360. 2023 Oct 1
- 5 citationsCrabtree effect in kidney proximal tubule cells via late-stage glycolytic intermediates.Manjula Darshi, Jana Tumova, Afaf Saliba, Jiwan Kim, Judy Baek, Subramaniam Pennathur, Kumar Sharma> ;Iscience. 2023 Apr 21
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Journal Articles
- Molecular Imaging of the Glomerulus via Mesangial Cell Uptake of Radiolabeled TilmanoceptCarl K Hoh, Kumar Sharma, Amin Haghighat Jahromi, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- Aging increases the susceptibility of hepatic inflammation, liver fibrosis and aging in response to high-fat diet in miceKim IH, Xu J, Liu X, Koyama Y, Ma HY, Diggle K, You YH, Schilling JM, Jeste D, �Sharma K, Brenner DA, Kisseleva T, Age, 1/1/2016
- Diabetic kidney diseaseThomas, M., Brownlee, M., Susztak, K., Sharma, K., Jandeleit-Dahm, K., Zoungas, S., Rossing, P., Per-Henrik Groop, P-H, Cooper, M., Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 1/1/2015
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Books/Book Chapters
Lectures
- Nutrient Metabolism in Diabetic ComplicationsAmerican Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2019 - Washington, D.C. - 11/9/2019
- State-of-the-Art Lecture--Mitochondrial Hormesis and Diabetic Kidney DiseaseKumar Sharma, MD - 6/14/2014
- Imaging Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Metabolites in Diabetic Kidney DiseaseLa Jolla, CA - 6/14/2014
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Press Mentions
- Can a Vitamin Treat COVID-19-Related Acute Kidney Injury?August 2nd, 2021
- Genome-Wide Identification, Expression Profiling, and Evolution of Phosphate Transporter Gene Family in Green AlgaeOctober 8th, 2020
- Precision Medicine Uses Multiomic Details to Battle Kidney DiseaseSeptember 10th, 2020
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Hospital Affiliations
- Temple Community HospitalLos Angeles, California
- University Health / UT Health Science Center at San AntonioSan Antonio, Texas
- University Health / UT Health Science Center at San AntonioSan Antonio, Texas
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