ShikhaMehtaMD

Nephrology • Birmingham, AL

Associate Professor, Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine

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Office
1717 6th Ave S
Birmingham, AL 35233
Phone+1 205-975-9200

Fax+1 205-996-6555
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Summary

Dr. Shikha Mehta is a nephrologist in Birmingham, AL and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Highlands Medical Center, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and University of Alabama Hospital. She received her medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College and has been in practice 13 years. She is experienced in general nephrology, nephrology, transplant medicine, and hiv transplant.

Education & Training

University of Alabama Medical CenterFellowship, Nephrology, 2008 - 2010
University of Alabama Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2005 - 2008
Maulana Azad Medical CollegeClass of 2004

Certifications & Licensure

AL State Medical License 2005 - 2024
American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology

Clinical Trials

HOPE in Action Prospective Multicenter, Clinical Trial of Deceased HIVD+ Kidney Transplants for HIV+ Recipients Start of enrollment: 2018 Apr 19
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

11 citations
Should Transplant Nephrology Pursue Recognition from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)?
Neeraj Singh, Prince M Anand, Gaurav Gupta, Deirdre Sawinski, Oren Fix, Deborah Adey, Enver Akalin, Carlos Zayas, Darshana Dadhania, Mona Doshi, Diane Cibrik, Mallika ...> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2024 Feb 6
4 citations
The effect of induction immunosuppression for kidney transplant on the latent HIV reservoir.
Sarah E Benner, Yolanda Eby, Xianming Zhu, Reinaldo E Fernandez, Eshan U Patel, Jessica E Ruff, Feben Habtehyimer, Haley A Schmidt, Charles S Kirby, Sarah Hussain, Dar...> ;JCI Insight. 2022 Nov 8
2 citations
Associations between female birth sex and risk of chronic kidney disease development among people with HIV in the USA: A longitudinal, multicentre, cohort study.
Brittany A Shelton, Deirdre Sawinski, Paul A MacLennan, Wonjun Lee, Christina Wyatt, Girish Nadkarni, Huma Fatima, Shikha Mehta, Heidi M Crane, Paige Porrett, Bruce Ju...> ;Eclinicalmedicine. 2022 Nov 1
8 citations
National Landscape of HIV+ Deceased Organ Donors in the United States.
William A. Werbel, Diane M. Brown, Oyinkansola T. Kusemiju, Brianna Doby, Shanti Seaman, Andrew D. Redd, Yolanda Eby, Reinaldo E Fernandez, Niraj M. Desai, Jernelle Mi...> ;Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2021 Aug 28
11 citations
Obesity as an isolated contraindication to kidney transplantation in the end-stage renal disease population: A cohort study.
Babak J. Orandi, Cora E. Lewis, Paul A. MacLennan, Haiyan Qu, Shikha Mehta, Vineeta Kumar, Saulat S. Sheikh, Robert M. Cannon, Douglas J. Anderson, Michael J. Hanaway,...> ;Obesity. 2021 Aug 2
5 citations
Association between dd-cfDNA levels, de novo donor specific antibodies, and eGFR decline: An analysis of the DART cohort
Deirdre Sawinski, Shikha Mehta, Tarek Alhamad, Jonathan S. Bromberg, Bernard Fischbach, Thomas Aeschbacher, Srinka Ghosh, Grigoriy Shekhtman, Sham Dholakia, Daniel C. ...> ;Clinical Transplantation. 2021 Jun 28
13 citations
Impact of Subclinical Borderline Inflammation on Kidney Transplant Outcomes.
Michael E. Seifert, Gaurav Agarwal, Miriam Bernard, Ellen Kasik, S Sikandar Raza, Huma Fatima, Robert S. Gaston, Vera Hauptfeld-Dolejsek, Bruce A. Julian, Clifton E. K...> ;Transplantation Direct. 2021 Jan 26
1 citations
Human immunodeficiency virus from life taking to life giving: expanding the donor pool by using HIV-positive donors.
Shikha Mehta, Jayme E. Locke> ;Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 2020 Dec 1
46 citations
A prospective multicenter pilot study of HIV-positive deceased donor to HIV-positive recipient kidney transplantation: HOPE in action
Christine M. Durand, Wanying Zhang, Diane M. Brown, Sile Yu, Niraj M. Desai, Andrew D. Redd, Serena M. Bagnasco, Fizza F. Naqvi, Shanti Seaman, Brianna Doby, Darin Ost...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2021 May 1
10 citations
Clarifying the HOPE Act landscape: The challenge of donors with false-positive HIV results.
Christine M. Durand, William A. Werbel, Brianna Doby, Diane Brown, Niraj M. Desai, Maricar Malinis, Jennifer C. Price, Peter Chin-Hong, Shikha Mehta, Rachel J. Friedma...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2020 Feb 1
2 citations
Redefining the Influence of Ethnicity on Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Outcomes: A 15-year Single-center Experience.
Carlton J. Young, Paul A. MacLennan, Elinor C. Mannon, Rhiannon D. Reed, Brittany A. Shelton, Michael J. Hanaway, Gaurav Agarwal, Robert S. Gaston, Bruce A. Julian, Cl...> ;Annals of Surgery. 2020 Jan 1
13 citations
Repeat kidney transplant recipients with active rejection have elevated donor-derived cell-free DNA
Shikha Mehta, Jae H. Chang, Tarek Alhamad, Jonathan S. Bromberg, D. Hiller, Marica Grskovic, J. Yee, Roslyn B. Mannon> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2019 May 1
3 citations
The effect of renal transplantation on left ventricular function, electrocardiography, and mechanical synchrony by gated myocardial perfusion imaging.
William A. Crosland, Himanshu Aggarwal, Ayman A. Farag, Shikha Mehta, Roslyn B. Mannon, Jaekyeong Heo, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage> ;Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2018 Oct 22
29 citations
Organs from deceased donors with false-positive HIV screening tests: An unexpected benefit of the HOPE act.
Christine M. Durand, Samantha E. Halpern, Mary G. Bowring, Gilad A. Bismut, Oyinkansola T. Kusemiju, Brianna Doby, Reinaldo E Fernandez, Charles S. Kirby, Darin Ostran...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2018 Oct 1
Quantifying potentially infectious sharing patterns among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, USA.
Smith, M. K.,Graham, M.,Latkin, C. A.,Mehta, S. H.,Cummings, DAT.> ;Epidemiol. Infect.. 2018 Aug 03
13 citations
Kidney transplantation and waitlist mortality rates among candidates registered as willing to accept a hepatitis C infected kidney.
Brittany A. Shelton, Deirdre Sawinski, Shikha Mehta, Rhiannon D. Reed, Paul A. MacLennan, Jayme E. Locke> ;Transplant Infectious Disease. 2018 Apr 1
45 citations
Impact of Protease Inhibitor–Based Anti‐Retroviral Therapy on Outcomes for HIV+ Kidney Transplant Recipients
Deirdre Sawinski, Brittany A. Shelton, Shikha Mehta, Rhiannon D. Reed, Paul A. MacLennan, Sally K. Gustafson, Dorry L. Segev, Jayme E. Locke> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2017 Dec 1
58 citations
Biological Variation of Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Renal Transplant Recipients: Clinical Implications
Jonathan S. Bromberg, Daniel C. Brennan, Emilio D. Poggio, Suphamai Bunnapradist, Anthony Langone, Puneet Sood, Arthur J. Matas, Roslyn B. Mannon, Shikha Mehta, Asif S...> ;The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. 2017 Nov 1
20 citations
Lessons Learned: Early Termination of a Randomized Trial of Calcineurin Inhibitor and Corticosteroid Avoidance Using Belatacept.
Kenneth A. Newell, Aneesh K. Mehta, Christian P. Larsen, Peter G. Stock, Alton B. Farris, Shikha Mehta, David Ikle, Brian Armstrong, Yvonne Morrison, Nancy D. Bridges,...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2017 Oct 1
311 citations
Cell-Free DNA and Active Rejection in Kidney Allografts
Roy D. Bloom, Jonathan S. Bromberg, Emilio D. Poggio, Suphamai Bunnapradist, Anthony Langone, Puneet Sood, Arthur J. Matas, Shikha Mehta, Roslyn B. Mannon, Asif Sharfu...> ;Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2017 Jul 1
43 citations
Access to Kidney Transplantation among HIV-Infected Waitlist Candidates
Jayme E. Locke, Shikha Mehta, Deirdre Sawinski, Sally K. Gustafson, Brittany A. Shelton, Rhiannon D. Reed, Paul A. MacLennan, C. Bolch, Christine M. Durand, Allan B. M...> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2017 Mar 7
58 citations
Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplantation in HIV-infected Patients.
Jayme E. Locke, Sally K. Gustafson, Shikha Mehta, Rhiannon D. Reed, Brittany A. Shelton, Paul A. MacLennan, Christine M. Durand, Jon J. Snyder, Nicholas Salkowski, All...> ;Annals of Surgery. 2017 Mar 1
104 citations
Obesity increases the risk of end-stage renal disease among living kidney donors
Jayme E. Locke, Rhiannon D. Reed, Allan B. Massie, Paul A. MacLennan, Deirdre Sawinski, Vineeta Kumar, Shikha Mehta, Roslyn B. Mannon, Robert S. Gaston, Cora E. Lewis,...> ;Kidney International. 2017 Mar 1
35 citations
Apolipoprotein L1 and Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in Young Potential Living Kidney Donors.
Jayme E. Locke, Deirdre Sawinski, Rhiannon D. Reed, Brittany A. Shelton, Paul A. MacLennan, Vineeta Kumar, Shikha Mehta, Roslyn B. Mannon, Robert S. Gaston, Bruce A. J...> ;Annals of Surgery. 2017 Feb 1
4 citations
Increased Mortality and Graft Loss With Kidney Retransplantation Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Infected Recipients.
Brittany A. Shelton, Shikha Mehta, Deirdre Sawinski, Rhiannon D. Reed, Paul A. MacLennan, Sally K. Gustafson, Dorry L. Segev, Jayme E. Locke> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2017 Jan 1
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Journal Articles

Repeat Kidney Transplant Recipients with Active Rejection Have Elevated Donor‐Derived Cell‐Free DNA
Roslyn B Mannon, Jonathan S Bromberg, Shikha G Mehta, American journal of transplantation
Organs from Deceased Donors with False‐Positive HIV Screening Tests: An Unexpected Benefit of the HOPE Act
Shirish Huprikar, Sander Florman, Shikha G Mehta, American journal of transplantation