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Dr. Priya Verghese

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Division Head, Pediatric Nephrology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Medical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program
Isaac A. Abt, MD Professorship in Kidney Diseases
Professor of Pediatrics (Nephrology), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

About

Areas of Focus

  • Advanced kidney failure
  • Dialysis and transplant
  • Cystinosis
  • Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)

Work/Research

Internationally, Dr. Verghese is an acclaimed transplant nephrologist. Her research is focused on reducing the infectious complications of pediatric kidney transplant and increasing the longevity of kidney transplants. She is nationally funded, has several publications in high impact journals and is invited to speak across the world to share her transplant expertise and research. She is the invited Program Chair of the International Pediatric Transplant Association and as Board Member of the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium, has helped numerous trainees and junior faculty find their research footing. She serves as a patient and physician advocate through her work with the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, and the American Society of Transplantation.

Career

Priya Verghese, MBBS (MD), MPH is a pediatric nephrologist with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. She graduated from one of India’s top medical colleges and then completed pediatric residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She declined an invitation to be chief resident to pursue a pediatric nephrology fellowship, a transplant fellowship and a Masters of Public Health at the University of Washington. She served as nephrologist, medical director for pediatric kidney transplant, and the president of the hospital clinical service unit board of the University of Minnesota in July 2009 until 2020 when she was recruited to be Division Head of the Pediatric Nephrology Division at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. Dr. Verghese has revamped the Pediatric Nephrology Division to increase access, reduce patient wait times, create a unique service model to meet the needs of the patients, increase the division’s research profile and raise the profile, width and depth of the nephrology training program for medical students, residents and fellows.