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Ashley Martinez, MD, MAS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Nephrology
BioDr. Ashley Martinez is a board-certified, fellowship-trained nephrologist with the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at Stanford Health Care. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Martinez specializes in caring for kidney transplant recipients. She has expertise in pre-transplant evaluation and readiness, immunosuppression, kidney allograft survival, and the prevention and treatment of post-transplant complications. She prioritizes clear, personalized communication at every point to improve care.
Dr. Martinez earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed clinical and research fellowships in nephrology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she also earned a master’s degree in clinical research. She completed her transplant nephrology fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Martinez’s research interests focus on addressing the needs of patients impacted by language barriers. Her work has emphasized the need to improve provider-patient communication, patient education, and evaluation tools for patients with limited English proficiency. She aims to increase awareness of communication gaps and increase patient-centered communication throughout the course of kidney care.
Dr. Martinez has published her findings in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA Network Open and Kidney360. She has also presented at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.
Dr. Martinez is a member of the American Society of Nephrology, the American Society of Transplantation, and the National Kidney Foundation. -
Timothy Meyer
Stanford University Professor of Nephrology, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInadequate removal of uremic solutes contributes to widespread illness in the more than 500,000 Americans maintained on dialysis. But we know remarkably little about these solutes. Dr. Meyer's research efforts are focused on identifying which uremic solutes are toxic, how these solutes are made, and how their production could be decreased or their removal could be increased. We should be able to improve treatment if we knew more about what we are trying to remove.
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Maha Abdalla Mohamed, MD, FACP, FAST
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Nephrology
BioDr. Mohamed is a board-certified, fellowship-trained nephrologist with the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at Stanford Healthcare. She is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology.
Dr. Mohamed specializes in kidney and pancreas transplant outcomes and kidney transplant health equity. Conditions she treats include allografts rejection, recipient BK virus and CMV infection, and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder management. Dr. Mohamed is known for her personalized and comprehensive approach to patient care. She takes the time to understand her patients’ unique health needs and creates tailored care plans that fit their lifestyles.
Dr. Mohamed’s research interests include examining new approaches to improving kidney transplant long-term outcome including kidney transplant rejection and infection. She also seeks to develop better screening and monitoring guidance to help reduce post-transplant BK virus and CMV infection.
Dr. Mohamed’s published work can be found in peer-reviewed journals such as Clinical Transplantation, Transplant Infectious Disease and Transplantation. She has presented to her peers at international, national, and regional meetings, including at the American Transplant Congress and the American Society of Nephrology. She has also been invited to speak multiple times at King Faisal Hospital in Rwanda as well as in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on topics like post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, update in kidney transplant rejection, and update in living-donor kidney transplantation.
Dr. Mohamed is a faculty fellow of Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, fellow of the American Society of Transplantation, a board of managers member of the AST Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Training Accreditation Program, member of the International Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Nephrology. -
Maria Emilia Montez Rath
Senior Research Engineer, Medicine - Med/Nephrology
Current Role at StanfordDirector of the Biostatistics Core, Stanford Division of Nephrology (2016 - Present)
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Sankar Narayan Niranjan
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Nephrology
BioDr.Niranjan is a nephrologist (specialist in kidney diseases) with specific interests in the care of cancer patients with kidney disease (Onconephrology), high blood pressure (Hypertension) and the prevention of kidney disease.
A graduate of Kilpauk Medical College, India, he completed his medical residencies in the UK and at the University of Connecticut, where he served as Chief Medical Resident and a Nephrology Fellow. Since 2004, he served as an Attending Physician and Nephrologist at the St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut, and was a partner at Greater Hartford Nephrology. He was also a Medical Director at DaVita Dialysis in Bloomfield, Connecticut until December 2023.
In addition to his clinical practice, he has mentored numerous young physicians and nephrology trainees as a community-based faculty member at the UCONN School of Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut.
His passion for the prevention and early detection of kidney disease is evident in his active involvement in the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) in Connecticut. He has facilitated screenings at inner-city community events and minority places of worship, demonstrating his commitment to reaching diverse populations. Over the last five years, he has conducted kidney disease screening camps across Southern India (most recently in June 2024), screening over 500 patients in rural areas using the KEEP template.
Dr.Niranjan is fluent in conversational Tamil, one of the oldest spoken languages in the world. He loves the outdoors and fitness - specifically hiking, bicycling and yoga. He has enjoyed traveling the world with his family. He is passionate about giving back to the community, and supports the education of underprivileged children in India through a US-based non-profit. -
Alan C. Pao
Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and, by courtesy, of Urology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe are broadly interested in how the kidneys control salt, water, and electrolyte homeostasis in the body. Our disease focus is on kidney stone disease. We use cultured kidney cells, transgenic mice, human plasma/urine samples, and electronic health record data to study the pathogenesis of kidney stone disease. Our therapeutic focus is on the development of small molecule compounds that can be used for kidney stone prevention.
