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Anjali Bhatt Saxena, MD FASN

Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Nephrology

BioDr. Anjali Bhatt Saxena, MD is a Clinical Professor of Medicine (Affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Director of Peritoneal Dialysis at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. She has served as the Medical Director for an independent Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Clinic in San Jose, CA since 2004, overseeing a large Peritoneal Dialysis clinic.

Dr. Saxena's clinical and research interests are in the area of home dialysis, including Peritoneal Dialysis and Home Hemodialysis. She is devoted to sharing her home dialysis expertise through research and education worldwide. She has been a key faculty member of Home Dialysis University (HDU) since 2007, providing home dialysis education to hundreds of US Nephrology Fellows and Nephrologists at all levels of experience; in 2024 she became HDU Program Director. She serves on the ASN Home Dialysis Steering Committee and is a founding member of the International Home Dialysis Consortium (ISN-ISPD). She has delivered numerous invited lectures at international meetings and has published scholarly work on PD in various peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Saxena is dedicated to the growth of PD worldwide; she is the immediate past-Treasurer for the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) and Past-President of the N. American Chapter of ISPD. She is an Educational Ambassador for the ISN, and with colleagues supported the growth of PD in low income areas of Sri Lanka.