Faculty
| RAMESH NAIR, M.D. Clinical Associate Professor Director, Renal Pathology 200 Hawkins Drive - 6245 Roy Carver Pavilion Iowa City, IA 52242-1009 M.B.B.S. Calicut (Kozhikode) Medical College Calicut, Kerala, India, 1987 Internal Medicine Residency, New York Methodist Hospital, 1994-95 Pathology Residency, Long Island College Hospital/Winthrop University Hospital, New York, 1995-99 Renal Pathology Fellowship, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1999-00 |
My primary interest is in the pathology of medical renal diseases and renal transplantation. We provide rapid same day renal biopsy diagnosis helping in efficient patient care and management. My current interests include IgA nephropathy and Chronic Transplant Rejections.
Selected publications:
Nair R, Fraer M, Suneja M, Acute transplant glomerulopathy is associated with antibody mediated rejection and poor graft outcome. Transplant Proc 42: 3507-3512, 2010.Nair R, Agrawal N, Lebeau M, Tuteja S, Chandran PKG, Suneja M, Late Acute Kidney Transplant Rejection: Clinicopathological Correlates and response to Corticosteroid Therapy. Transplant Proc 41: 4150-4153. 2009.
Agrawal N, Nair R, McChesney LP, Tuteja S, Suneja M, Thomas CP, Unrecognized Acute Phosphate Nephropathy in a Kidney Donor with Consequent Poor Allograft Outcome. Am J Transplant, Jul;9(7):1685-9. 2009.
Shi P, Cao X, Sweezer K, Williams NR, Husted R, Nair R, Weiss R, Williamson R, Sigmund CD, Snyder P, Staub O, Stokes, Salt-Sensitive Hypertension and Cardiac Hypertrophy in Mice Deficient in the Ubiquitin Ligase Nedd4-2. J. Am J Physiology 295(2):F462-70. 2008.
Nair R, Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: Cellular variant and beyond. Kidney Int 70:1676-1678, 2006 (Commentary).
Nair R, Walker PD, Is IgA Nephropathy the commonest primary glomerulopathy amongst young adults in the USA? Kidney Int 69: 1455-1458, 2006.