Ali G. Gharavi MD

Dr. Ali Gharavi, a leading kidney disease researcher, is chief of the division of nephrology at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Gharavi, also an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of its renal physiology and pathophysiology course, joined New York-Presbyterian/Columbia in 2003.

Dr. Gharavi’s work has identified multiple regions of the genome that confer the risk of IgA nephropathy and has yielded novel insight into the mechanisms of kidney injury underlying the condition. His other research includes the genetic causes of congenital abnormalities of the kidney and the urinary tract, the most common cause of kidney failure in children, for which he has described several new genetic mutations. Dr. Gharavi is a member of the American Society of Nephrology, the International Society of Nephrology, and the American Society of Human Genetics.

After receiving his medical degree from George Washington University, Dr. Gharavi completed his residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center and fellowships in hypertension and nephrology, also at Mount Sinai. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in genetics at Yale University School of Medicine. He previously held academic appointments at Yale University School of Medicine and Mount Sinai School of Medicine and hospital appointments at Mount Sinai Hospital.