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Understanding Polycystic Kidney Disease: An Overview of PKD
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Understanding Polycystic Kidney Disease: An Overview of PKD
This presentation for patients will discuss how Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) develops, how the disease changes over time, and how it affects patients both physically and mentally.
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Shayan Shirazian, MD
Columbia University Medical Center*
Dr Shirazian received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and did his internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He spent 7 years at NYU-Winthrop Hospital where he was the fellowship program director and the director of nephrology clinical trials before being recruited back to Columbia. He is currently an associate professor of medicine in nephrology and a director of in-center and home dialysis at Columbia.
His research aims to test, and implement, interventions to improve quality of life and self-care in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease. To this end, he has been the principal investigator on several investigator-initiated grant-funded studies in this area. He has over 50 peer reviewed publications, and serves on the editorial board of BMC Nephrology.
Shayan Shirazian, MD is an employee of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC)