Juhi Kumar MD, MPH

Dr. Kumar is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is an expert in conditions affecting the kidneys in children, from congenital structural kidney abnormalities, kidney diseases causing proteinuria and hematuria, high blood pressure, and fluid and electrolyte disorders. She cares for patients across the spectrum of kidney disease from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease that ultima kidney lately requires renal replacement therapy, including dialysis and transplant. Dr. Kumar is also an Assistant Attending Pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NYP Phyllis and David Komansky Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Kumar will lead the Department’s pediatric kidney transplant team in all clinical and administrative aspects of running the pediatric kidney transplant program. Dr. Kumar looks forward to growing and expanding the program in collaboration with Dr. Sandip Kapur (Chief, of the Division of Transplant Surgery) and his team. The pediatric and surgical transplant team is working together on several approaches to ease the burden of the transplant process for patients and their families. These initiatives include a multidisciplinary clinic for pre-transplant evaluations, an enhanced transplant education program for families and participation in multicenter research studies aimed at improving outcomes for our transplant patients.

Dr. Kumar received her medical degree (M.B.B.S.) from LLRM Medical College in India. She completed a residency in Pediatrics at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, and a fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also completed a Master’s in Public Health (M.P.H.) at the School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.