Sushrut S Waikar MD
Acute Renal Failure, Chronic Renal Failure & Dialysis
Chief of Nephrology, Boston Medical Center & Norman G. Levinsky Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
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725 Albany St# ShapiroBoston, MA 02118
Phone+1 617-414-8680
Fax+1 617-414-8664
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Education & Training
Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Nephrology, 2003 - 2006
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2002
Yale School of MedicineClass of 1998
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2000 - Present
MA State Medical License 2002 - 2026
American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology
Clinical Trials
- Mannitol - Potential Role in Hemodialysis Initiation for Reduction of Intra-dialytic Hypotension Start of enrollment: 2012 May 01
- Randomized Controlled Trial of Calcitriol vs. Placebo Among Critically-ill Patients With Sepsis Start of enrollment: 2013 Feb 01
- A Prospective Observational Study to Evaluate Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers In Patients Receiving First Cycle of Cisplatin Chemotherapy for Head and Neck Cancers Start of enrollment: 2012 Sep 01
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Randomized trial of activated vitamin D for acute kidney injury prevention in critically ill patients.David E Leaf, Tushar Shenoy, Kevin Zinchuk, Shruti Gupta, Julie-Alexia Dias
JCI Insight. 2025-10-22 - 1 citationsReversible compromise of physiological resilience by accumulation of heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations.Huihui Huang, Yi Wang, Zsuzsanna K Zsengeller, Joshua M Gorham, Vamsidhara Vemireddy
Science. 2025-10-09 - Unbiased self supervised learning of kidney histology reveals phenotypic and prognostic insights.Krutika Pandit, Nicolas Coudray, Adalberto Claudio Quiros, Aditya Surapaneni, Dhairya Upadhyay
Scientific Reports. 2025-10-08
Journal Articles
- De Novo NAD+ Biosynthetic Impairment in Acute Kidney Injury in HumansRavi I Thadhani, Kenneth M Ralto, Charbel C Khoury, Kamal R Khabbaz, Vaughan Washco, David E Leaf, Adam Lerner, Eugene P Rhee, Sushrut S Waikar, Steven H Kim, Shoshana..., Nature
- Biological Variability of Estimated GFR and Albuminuria in CKDSushrut S Waikar, Chi-Yuan Hsu, Harold I Feldman, Kathleen D Liu, Joseph V Bonventre, Lesley A Inker, American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Authored Content
- Biological Variability of Estimated GFR and Albuminuria in CKDJuly 2018
- Renal Functional Reserve RevisitedMay 2018
- Renal Functional Reserve RevisitedMay 2018
Press Mentions
New Biomarkers Could Improve Early Detection, Monitoring of Kidney InjuryMarch 28th, 2025- New Biomarkers Could Improve Early Detection of Kidney InjuryJanuary 7th, 2025
- Medical Bulletin 08/ January/ 2025 - VideoJanuary 7th, 2025
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Grant Support
- Boston Chronic Kidney Disease Research Biopsy CenterBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER2022–2027
- Multi-Omics and Chronic Kidney Disease: Correlation with HistologyNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE2016–2027
- The Boston University Kidney and Medical Engineering Program (BU-KIDMEP)BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER2021–2026
- Discovery Science Collaborative for CKDuSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2021–2026
- NAD Augmentation to Treat Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled TrialBRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL2022–2025
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