
Overview
Luz Liriano-Ward, MD received her MD degree at Weill Cornell Medical College. She then completed internal medicine residency at NYU Langone Medical Center, followed by 2-years of nephrology fellowship and 1 year of transplant nephrology at Mount Sinai Hospital – Icahn School of Medicine. Dr. Liriano-Ward is a UNOS certified transplant nephrologist. Dr. Liriano-Ward is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Nephrology. Dr. Liriano-Ward is a member of the American Society of nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation. She has special interest in medical education and acts as the director for the transplant nephrology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center. She is also the director for the medical students’ nephrology rotation at Albert Einstein College of medicine / Montefiore Medical Center. She serves in multiple committees at the local and national level, including the Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Training Accreditation Program (TNFTAP) for the American Society of Transplantation.
Dr. Liriano is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Kidney Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Chronic Kidney Disease, Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), and Kidney Transplant.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 12 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 10 articles in the study of Kidney Transplant.
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Locations
111 East 210th Street, Bronx, NY 10461
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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Enver Akalin, MD, earned his medical degree at Ege University School of Medicine in Izmir, Turkey. He completed a research fellowship in the Renal Division at Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, followed by a clinical fellowship in the Renal Division at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Akalin completed his residency in Internal Medicine as well as a clinical transplant nephrology fellowship in the Renal Division at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr Akalin is a UNOS certified transplant nephrologist, and brings to Montefiore more than a decade of expertise in kidney and kidney-pancreas transplantation. Prior to joining Montefiore, Dr. Akalin served as the Medical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program and the Director of the Transplant Nephrology Fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Akalin is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Nephrology. Dr. Akalin is a member of several societies, has served on the American Society of Transplantation Clinical Trials Committee and Renal Accreditation Committee, the American Society of Nephrology Transplant Advisory Group and the Medical Board of New York Organ Donor Network. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Clinical Journal of The American Society of Nephrology and Transplantation. Dr. Akalin has been the principle investigator in several trials and has written numerous articles on complex issues in kidney transplantation. Dr. Akalin is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Kidney Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Kidney Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, and Kidney Transplant.
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Deirdre Sawinski is a Nephrologist in New York, New York. Dr. Sawinski is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Kidney Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Chronic Kidney Disease, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), High Potassium Level, Kidney Transplant, and Nephrectomy.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- Kidney TransplantDr. Liriano isDistinguished. Learn about Kidney Transplant.
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- Chronic Kidney DiseaseDr. Liriano isAdvanced. Learn about Chronic Kidney Disease.
- Cytomegalic Inclusion DiseaseDr. Liriano isAdvanced. Learn about Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease.
- Cytomegalovirus InfectionDr. Liriano isAdvanced. Learn about Cytomegalovirus Infection.
- Experienced
- Acute Kidney FailureDr. Liriano isExperienced. Learn about Acute Kidney Failure.
- Acute Tubular NecrosisDr. Liriano isExperienced. Learn about Acute Tubular Necrosis.
- Diabetic NephropathyDr. Liriano isExperienced. Learn about Diabetic Nephropathy.
- End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)Dr. Liriano isExperienced. Learn about End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
- Familial Hypocalciuric Hypercalcemia Type 1
- High Potassium LevelDr. Liriano isExperienced. Learn about High Potassium Level.

