The True Cost of Kidney Failure
Kidney disease is often silent. But it can have a huge effect on your life, including dialysis and organ transplant. In this podcast, nephrologist and researcher Dinushika Mohottige, MD, talks about how to maintain your kidney health. She also addresses the impacts of environment and community on maintaining healthy kidneys.
Stephen Calabria: From the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, this is Road to Resilience, a podcast about facing adversity. I'm your host, Stephen Calabria, Mount Sinai's Director of Podcasting. On this episode, we welcome Dinushika Mohottige, MD.
Dr. Mohottige is an assistant professor in the Institute for Health Equity Research in the Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As a leading researcher into kidney disease, Dr. Mohottige has spearheaded numerous studies into kidney health disparities.
She recently was approved for a grant investigating how environmental and community factors may accelerate kidney risk and how those risks may be mitigated while reducing burdens on patients, communities, and taxpayers.
Her research and her mission to improve kidney health nationwide is a case study in scientific and personal resilience. We're honored to have Dr. Dinushika Mohottige on the show.
Welcome to Road to Resilience.
Dinushika Mohottige: Thank you so much for having me.
Stephen Calabria: Could you walk us through what it is you do as a nephrologist here in Mount Sinai?
Dinushika Mohottige: Yes, I have the honor of taking care of people with kidney disease and many of us who are nephrologists or kidney specialists think of kidney care as a family endeavor.
So, often taking care of people with kidney disease also means getting to know their caregivers and their family members as well. I take care of patients at the Bronx Veterans Administration, where many of us here at Mount Sinai are fortunate to spend time.
I'm really honored to be able to take care of veterans and grateful that Mount Sinai has this longstanding relationship with the James J. Peters VA in the Bronx.