Current Fellows
Michelle Keyser, MD | Department of Pediatrics | University of Pittsburgh
Julia Warren McDonald, MD | Department of Pediatrics | University of Pittsburgh
Megan Gates, MD | Department of Pediatrics | University of Pittsburgh
Connect with us on Instagram and LinkedIn.
Graduates
2026
Kathryn O'Brien, DO
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Tara Beck, DO
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Focus: Neonatal Nephrology
2025
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
2024
Lillian Mauroner, DO
Rocky Mountain Pediatric Kidney Center - Denver
Focus: Acute Kidney Injury
2023
Katherine Kurzinski, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Focus: Hyperkalemia in Pediatric CKD
2021
Elisabeth Cole, MD
Assistant Professor
Washington University
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Focus: Neonatal Nephrology
Aidan Porter, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Focus: Molecular chaperone and AKI
2020
Christine Crana, MD
Assistant Professor
Yale University
Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
Focus: AKI and therapeutics
2019
Cassandra Formeck, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Focus: AKI and Immunology
2018
Caitlin Peterson, MD
Assistant Professor
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
Focus: Transplant quality improvement
Melissa Anslow, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Focus: MicroRNAs in the lower urinary tract
2017
Emily Joyce, MD
Assistant Professor
Medical Director, Dialysis
Case Western Reserve University
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Focus: Nephrotoxins in AKI
Paul Fadakar, MD
Assistant Professor
Medical Director, Transplant
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hosptial
Focus: Transplant Immunology and Physician communication skills
2016
Assistant Professor
Penn State College of Medicine
Penn State Children's Hospital
Focus: Geneal Pediatric Nephrology
Gaurav Nanda, MD
Assistant Professor
West Virginia University
West Virginia Ruby Memorial Hospital
Focus: General Pediatric Nephrology
2015
Assistant Professor
University of Alabama
Children's of Alabama
Focus: Acute Care Nephrology
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
Focus: Dialysis and Transplant
2014
Division Chief
Penn State College of Medicine
Penn State Children's Hospital
Focus: Boiethics and Dialysis
2013
Associate Professor
Division Chief
University of Louisville
Norton Children's Hospital
Focus: Transplant and Hypertension
2012
Associate Professor