Nada Alachkar, MD

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Dr. Nada Alachkar is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a transplant Nephrologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her areas of clinical expertise include recurrent GN post kidney transplant, incompatible kidney transplants, kidney transplants, nephrology and pancreas transplants. Dr. Alachkar earned her M.D. at Aleppo University Faculty of Medicine in Syria. She completed residencies at Aleppo University and Wright State University School of Medicine. She completed her clinical fellowship in nephrology and transplant nephrology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2009. Her research interests include recurrent glomerular diseases post kidney transplantation; in particular recurrent FSGS post transplant. Also, using biomarkers in kidney transplants, outcome of living and deceased donor kidney transplant recipients with positive crossmatch; and responses to desensitization treatments and post-transplant outcome in highly sensitized patients.  Dr. Alachkar is a member of the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation.