Division of Nephrology

Department: Internal Medicine

Email: gaurav.gupta@vcuhealth.org

Dr. Gaurav Gupta currently serves as the Chief for the Division of Nephrology.  He also serves as the Medical Director of the kidney transplant program at VCUHS. Dr. Gupta has previously served as the Program Director of the Transplant Nephrology Fellowship program.  He continues to mentor several junior faculty, fellows, residents and students in this capacity. He also serves on the National American Society of Transplantation (AST) Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Accreditation Committee.  Dr. Gupta is the Chair of the AST Kidney/Pancreas Committee's Education workgroup. He has also served on various national committees including those for the United Network of Organ Sharing.  His current research efforts are focused on enhancing access to kidney transplantation by the safe utilization of high-infectious risk donor kidneys (HCV+ and COVID donors). Other areas of focus include molecular diagnostics in kidney transplantation, expansion of the donor pool and reduction of kidney discard as well as many other multi-center studies sponsored by the NIH and/or Industry. In addition to being on journal editorial boards, Dr. Gupta is also an ad-hoc reviewer for most premier journals including JAMA and the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Gaurav Gupta, MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Medical Director of Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation
Chief, Division of Nephrology 
Email: gaurav.gupta@vcuhealth.org

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