Pathology

Ramesh Nair, MD

Portrait

Mailing Address

Office: 6245 RCP
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: +1 319 356 1799
Email: ramesh-nair@uiowa.edu

Education

Certificate, Biological Sciences, Gov't Arts College Trivandrum, Kerala, India, 1980
MD, Medicine, Calicut (Kozhikode) Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India, 1988
Internship, Medicine, Calicut Medical College, 1989
Residency, General Surgery , Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India, 1994
Residency, Internal Medicine , NY Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, 1995
Residency, Pathology , Long Island College Hospital. Brooklyn, NY, 1996
Residency, Pathology , Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, 1998
Residency, Chief Resident, Pathology, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, 1999
Fellowship, Renal Pathology, John Hopkins Hospital, 2000

Appointments

Primary: Pathology

Research Interests

nephropathy, renal transplantation

Research Summary

My primary interest is in the pathology of medical renal diseases and renal transplantation. I have several years of experience in these fields. We provide rapid same day renal biopsy diagnosis helping in efficient patient care and management. My current interests include IgA nephropathy and Chronic Transplant Rejections.

Publications

  • Nester, C, Stewart, Z, Myers, D, Jetton, J, Nair, R, Reed, A, Thomas, C, Smith, R, Brophy, P. Pre-emptive Eculizumab and Plasmapheresis for Renal Transplant in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY 6(6):1488-1494, JUN 2011.
  • Nair R, Fraer M. Suneja M.  Acute transplant glomerulopathy is associated with antibody mediated rejection and poor graft outcome.  Transplant Procedding.  42:3507-3512, 2010.
  • Nair R, Agarwal N, Lebeau M, Tuteja S, Chandran PKG, Suneja M.  Late acute kidney transplant rejection:  clinicopathological correlates and response to corticosteroid therapy.  Transplant Proceedings.  41:4150-4153, 2009.
  • Agarwal N, Nair R, McChesney LP, Tuteja S, Suneja M, Thomas CP.  Unrecognized acute phosphate nephropathy in a kidney donor with consequent poor allograft outcome.  9(7), 1685-1689, 2009.
  • Shi P, Cao X, Sweezer K, Williams NR, Husted R, Nair R, Weiss R, Williamson R, Sigmund CD, Snyder P, Staub O, Stokes J.  Salt-sensitive hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy in mice deficient in the ubiquitin ligase nedd4-2.  Am J Physiology.  295(2):F462-470, 2008.
  • Suneja M, Nair R.  Cytomegalovirus glomerulopathy in renal allograft with response to oral valganciclovir.  Am J Kindey Dis.  52(1):e1-4, 2008.
  • Suneja M, Kahan A, Katz PD, Khalil R, Nair R.  Nodular glomerulosclerosis in a kidney transplant recipient who smokes.  Am J Kidney Dis.  50(5):830-833, 2007.
  • Nair R.  Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis:  cellular variant and beyond.  Kidney Int.  70:1676-1678 (Invited commentary), 2006.
  • Nair R, Katz PD, Thomas CA.  Diffuse glomerular crescents and peritubular immune deposits in a transplant patient.  Am J Kidney Dis.  48(1): 174-178, 2006.
  • Nair R, Walker PD.  Is IgA nephropathy the commenest primary glomerulopathy amongst young adults in the USA?  Kidney International.  69:1455-1459, 2006.