Dr. Abhijit Naik

Abhijit (Jeet) spent his formative years in the vibrant city of Mumbai, India, where he completed his medical degree at Grant Medical College. Driven by his interest in human health and quantitative analysis, he pursued further graduate training at the University of Alabama in Birmingham to become an epidemiologist and data scientist. He is a board-certified specialist in Nephrology by the American Board of Internal Medicine, with additional subspecialty training in Kidney Transplantation.He completed his Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation training at the University of Chicago, under the mentorship of Michelle Josephson, the current ASN president, and Richard J. Quigg in glomerular diseases. Beginning his career as a clinical faculty member at the University of Michigan, he was inspired by Roger C. Wiggins' foundational work on podocyte depletion and its role in FSGS. This inspiration led him to investigate the role of podocyte depletion in limiting long-term allograft survival in rejecting and non-rejecting kidney allografts. His work earned him a Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institutes of Health to train as a Physician Scientist in Systems Biology under Dr. Matthias Kretzler. Dr. Kretzler, who leads the NEPTUNE and Kidney Precision Medicine projects, is a distinguished systems biologist and prolific researcher.

Dr. Naik is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetic Nephropathy, Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, Kidney Transplant, and Sleeve Gastrectomy.

He is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 73 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial.