Faculty Profile


Sambhavi (Sam) Krishnamoorthy
Section of Nephrology
Assistant Professor of Medicine
samk@bsd.uchicago.edu
Referring Physician Access Line: 1-877-DOM-2730

Academic Interests

Dr. Krishnamoorthy specializes in living kidney donation, transplant nephrology and general nephrology. She is interested in improving access to transplant education in CKD 4 and CKD 5 patients to highlight benefits of preemptive living kidney transplantation. She is also involved in developing protocols for long term care of kidney transplant patients and kidney donors.
 

Clinical Interests

Transplant Nephrology and living kidney donation
 

Publications

  • Krishnamoorthy S, Ghobadi A, Delos Santos R, Schilling JD, Malone AF, Murad H, Bartlett NL, Alhamad T. CAR-T therapy in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with Treatment Refractory Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder. Am J Transplant. 2020 Oct 22. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16367. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33089906.

Training

  • MBBS, 2010, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Bachelor or Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery
  • Residency, 2014, University of Louisville, Internal Medicine
  • Fellowship, 2016, Washington University in St. Louis, Nephrology
  • Fellowship, 2020, Washington University in St. Louis, Transplant Nephrology