She is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Outpatient Services of the Kidney Transplant Program at UCLA Medical Center. Her major areas of interest include recurrence of glomerular diseases following primary renal transplantation, new onset diabetes after transplantation, BK virus screening and management after kidney transplantation, the link between hypomagnesemia and renal function decline in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 as well as in recipients of kidney transplant and acute and chronic kidney injury following liver transplantation. Her interests have resulted in publications in well-known Nephrology textbooks and journals as well as invitations to speak at both national and international meetings. She has written over 20 book chapters for major Nephrology and solid organ transplantation textbooks including Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, Textbook of Organ Transplantation, Transplantation of the Liver, Pancreas, islet and stem cell transplantation for diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease: Dialysis and Transplantation, and Handbook of Kidney Transplantation. She has also served as Moderator for transplant-related conferences at the American Society of Nephrology and World Congress of Nephrology, Editorial Board Member for the Case Reports in Nephrology and Transplantation Technologies and Research journals and Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Conference on Nephrology and Therapeutics. She is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Outpatient Services of the Kidney Transplant Program at UCLA Medical Center. Her major areas of interest include recurrence of glomerular diseases following primary renal transplantation, new onset diabetes after transplantation, BK virus screening and management after kidney transplantation, the link between hypomagnesemia and renal function decline in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 as well as in recipients of kidney transplant and acute and chronic kidney injury following liver transplantation. Her interests have resulted in publications in well-known Nephrology textbooks and journals as well as invitations to speak at both national and international meetings. She has written over 20 book chapters for major Nephrology and solid organ transplantation textbooks including Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, Textbook of Organ Transplantation, Transplantation of the Liver, Pancreas, islet and stem cell transplantation for diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease: Dialysis and Transplantation, and Handbook of Kidney Transplantation. She has also served as Moderator for transplant-related conferences at the American Society of Nephrology and World Congress of Nephrology, Editorial Board Member for the Case Reports in Nephrology and Transplantation Technologies and Research journals and Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Conference on Nephrology and Therapeutics.

Nephrology