Biography
Awards and Honors:
- 2000 - Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society
- 2008 - Professional Development Award, National Kidney Foundation – Maryland.
- 2010 - Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research, National Institutes of Health
- 2010 - Career Development Award, TNC-Center for Drug Abuse and AIDS Research
- 2012 - Department of Medicine Junior Faculty Excellence in Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
- 2013 - Center for AIDS Research Career Development Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research interests
- Research
- Professional Experience: My research interests include epidemiological
- translational studies focused on kidney disease
- its consequences
- particularly among HIV-infected individuals. In addition
- I am interested in the discovery
- utility of renal biomarkers in the context of several kidney diseases
- in the epidemiological research of chronic kidney disease
- nephrotic syndromes. 1) Kidney disease
- its consequences among HIV-infected individuals. 2) Role of genetics in kidney disease