Dr. Namrata Krishnan

Biography

Namrata Krishnan graduated with an MBBS from Lady Hardinge Medical School in New Delhi, India, in December 2000. Following her medical degree, she completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Connecticut Medical Center and pursued Nephrology fellowship training at Washington University Medical Center/Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO, from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, she joined the University of Massachusetts Medical Center as a faculty member focusing on general transplant nephrology. She became an Associate Professor in the Nephrology section at Yale School of Medicine in 2010. Her work at Yale includes being the site director for the UConn Nephrology fellowship and developing a multidisciplinary nephrology-palliative care program for veterans at the VA hospital in West Haven, CT. Dr. Krishnan's research interests encompass medical education, E-learning, renal physiology, hemodialysis, renal stones, hypertension, and conservative kidney management. She has received several awards, including the Innovations Kidney Education award from the American Society of Nephrology for her development of innovative educational modules in nephrology. She is an active member of the National Kidney Foundation's education committee, focusing on enhancing nephrology education nationally and internationally.

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