Pedram Fatehi

Dr. Ahearn is a board-certified nephrologist. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine Division of Nephrology.He specializes in providing innovative care to kidney disease and transplant patients. He develops a comprehensive, compassionate care plan personalized to each patient in his care.In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Ahearn has conducted research on barriers to transplantation for patients with extended dialysis exposure, disparities in living kidney donation, and disparities in access to kidney transplant. He also has researched kidney transplant outcomes as they relate to the timing of dialysis initiation plus new pharmaceuticals for the kidney transplant population.Dr.

After growing up in the Philippines (albeit of Indian descent), Kiran Kaur Khush graduated with Honors and Distinction in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. She completed her medical training at Harvard University and medical residency at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), followed by general cardiology training and advanced training in heart failure, heart transplantation, pulmonary hypertension, and echocardiography at UCSF. She then joined the faculty at UCSF while concomitantly earning a Masters’ Degree in Clinical Research and Epidemiology. Dr.

Dr. Dita Gratzinger is a hematopathologist who is dedicated to excellent patient care, to educating the hematopathologists of tomorrow, and to improving both by harnessing strengths across institutional and disciplinary lines. Dr. Gratzinger studies the architecture of supporting cells in the microenvironment as well as diagnosis of lymphoma on small volume specimens, and has a special interest in the role of patient-specific factors in manifestation of hematolymphoid disease, including immunodeficiency and dysregulation-related lymphoid proliferations.