Emaad M Abdel-Rahman, MD
Nephrology
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Bio & Overview
Emaad Abdel-Rahman, MD, PhD, has been a nephrologist for more than three decades specializing in caring for elderly patients with kidney disease, dialysis patients and patients with acute and chronic kidney diseases. He is director of the UVA Kidney Center Clinic and main hemodialysis unit and leads one of the few home hemodialysis units in the country. Abdel-Rahman has been actively involved in clinical research throughout his career, including both investigator-initiated and industry-related trials. He now serves as interim director of the Nephrology Clinical Research Center within the UVA Division of Nephrology.
Abdel-Rahman was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and earned his medical degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. He finished his medical residency and renal fellowship training in Egypt, where he worked as a nephrologist before returning to the United States. Abdel-Rahman completed a second medical residency at Northeast Ohio Medical University, followed by a clinical and research fellowship at the University of Wisconsin before joining the faculty at UVA.
He has received several clinical awards, including the UVA School of Medicine Dean’s Award for Clinical Excellence, and the Department of Medicine Mentoring Excellence award. He has served on the Advisory Geriatric Nephrology Committee and as a member of the steering committee of the Kidney Health Initiative at the American Society of Nephrology.
Abdel-Rahman lived in many places before settling in Charlottesville with his wife, a retired UVA faculty member, 20 years ago. The couple has twin adult children. In his free time, Abdel-Rahman enjoys reading and traveling.
Academic Information
- Department
- Medicine
- Academic Role
- Professor
- Division
- Nephrology
- Research Interests
- Geriatric Nephrology, acute kidney injury; in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, clinical trials
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- Arabic, English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine
- Residency
- North Eastern Ohio University
- Fellowships
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
- Certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine (Nephrology)
Highlights
Emaad Abdel-Rahman
My name is Emaad Abdel Rahman. I am a kidney doctor and nephrologist here at the University of Virginia. We see all sorts of kidney disease patients here at the kidney clinic in the inpatient part. I am dealing more with dialysis patients and especially with trying to help with their symptoms. My main area of research and seeing patients is what's called geriatric nephrology, which is kidney diseases in the elderly. I became interested in medicine ever since I was young because I had a good part of my early life in the hospitals being a patient myself and a kidney patients myself. So, I've been, if fact, I've planned on being a kidney doctor from the beginning, from a very early age. I am most passionate about really the quality of life of our patients. Really taking care of how they feel. People with acute kidney injuries, whether they acquire temporary dialysis or not, the best day is when they are taken off the machine. And the day that they recover their kidney function, we tell them, âYou no longer need to come to dialysis.â That's really really rewarding.
Awards
- 2019-2020 Best Doctors in America® List
- 2016-2018 “Top Doctors”, Castle Connolly Medical LTD
- 2017 SOM Dean's Award for Clinical Excellence
- 2017 Mentoring Excellence Award, DOM
- 2016 Member, Steering Committee of American Society of Nephrology (ASN) “Kidney Health Initiative: Prioritizing Symptoms of ESRD Patients for Developing Therapeutic Interventions”
- 2011-2014 Member, American Society of Nephrology Advisory Geriatric Nephrology Committee
- 2011 Outstanding Clinical Award, SOM
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