Julia Scialla, MD
Nephrology
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Bio & Overview
Julia Scialla, MD, is a board-certified nephrologist at the UVA Kidney Center. She provides comprehensive care to patients with a wide range of kidney conditions, with a focus on diagnosis, education, prevention and treatment.
Scialla is actively involved in research funded through the National Institutes of Health to improve our understanding of kidney disease risk factors and prevention, with an emphasis on the role of metabolic complications and nutrition. She is also involved in several national societies committed to improving the lives of patients with kidney disease, including the American Society of Nephrology and the National Kidney Foundation.
Originally from Gaithersburg, Maryland, Scialla attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed additional training in internal medicine, nephrology and clinical epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Outside of work, Scialla enjoys spending time with her husband, three children and dog, Finnigan.
Academic Information
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Residency
- Johns Hopkins University
- Fellowships
- Johns Hopkins University
- Certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine (Nephrology), American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
Highlights
Nephrologist Julia Scialla, MD
My name's Julia Scialla and I'm a clinical nephrologist. So I take care of patients with general kidney conditions, so we take care of the full gamut of kidney disease, when kidney disease is early or even when patients are just at risk for kidney disease and we also take care of patients as that advances on toward therapies like dialysis or kidney transplantation. I would say I'm probably most known for thinking about the complications of kidney disease, the effects of kidney disease on the bone for instance and other physiologic changes that happen in kidney disease. I'm also very interested in prevention and nutrition in kidney disease. It often doesn't have symptoms for patients so it's hard to monitor yourself and to know how you're doing so you need to understand what your laboratory numbers are and understand what they mean. So it's very important to me to make sure I'm explaining that to you well, helping answer your questions about what your kidney function is and how it's progressing and it's very important to me to make sure that we all understand the treatment plan and that we develop it together. Coming to UVA I think is a great decision for your kidney care. We have a nationally recognized division of nephrology. A number of our faculty are experts and speakers at national and international conferences. So when you come to see us you're really getting the benefit and the brainpower of our whole division.
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