Professional Bio
Osama El Shamy, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
He completed his medical school training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, and completed both his nephrology and home dialysis fellowships at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
Dr. El Shamy has a vested interested in teaching and home dialysis. He started and is the current program director of the dialysis fellowship at Vanderbilt. He is also the associate medical director of the in-center dialysis unit.
Dr. El Shamy is currently both an author and reviewer for UpToDate’s peritoneal dialysis section, a hub committee member on the NKF Home Dialysis Project ECHO, member of the steering committee of the Home Hemodialysis Fellowship Training Program through Outset Medical, and co-chair of the NKF Kidney Commute podcast. He is also an editorial fellow for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Other teaching responsibilities include being a faculty member of Home Dialysis University and leading the ISPD North American Chapter Central Time Zone journal club series.
He is the recipient of the Gold Humanism in Medicine award and is a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He has been involved in multiple national and international societies’ meetings, such as the ASN Home Dialysis Focus Group, the ASN post-acute kidney injury on dialysis (AKI-D) care workgroup, and the KDIGO controversies conference in home dialysis. Dr. El Shamy also served as an abstract reviewer for both the International Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Nephrology meetings.
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Education
MD - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2014
Residency - Internal Medicine - Temple University, 2017
Fellowship - Nephrology - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2019
Fellowship - Home Dialysis - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2020
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307