Simin Goral - Faculty Biosketch

Simin Goral, MD

Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Director, Polycystic Kidney Disease Center, University of Pennsylvania

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Department: Medicine

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simin.goral@uphs.upenn.edu

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13 Education:
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2f University of Istanbul, 1984.
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c1 Penn Kidney Transplant Program
e2 Penn Kidney Medicine Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Clinic
121 Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Research Interests--Nephrology Clinical Research
de Penn's Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division
113 Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Clinical Trials--Diabetic Nephropathy
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 87 Resident, Department of Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, University of Istanbul - Istanbul, Turkey, 1986-1990.
24 8e Clinical Fellow, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Nashville, TN, 1992-1993.
24 7b Clinical Fellow, Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Nashville, TN, 1993-1995.
24 8b Clinical Fellow, Transplantation Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Nashville, TN, 1995-1996.
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17 Certifications
28 38 M.D. Turkish Ministry of Health, 1984.
28 54 Specialist in Internal Medicine, Turkish Ministry of Health, 1990.
28 55 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), 1992.
28 40 Federation Licensing Examination (FLEX), 1994.
28 47 Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2000.
28 49 Diplomate, ABIM Subspecialty Board on Nephrology, 2001.
28 49 Diplomate, ABIM Subspecialty Board on Nephrology, 2011.
28 4a Diplomate, ABIM Subspecialty Board on Nephrology , 2021.
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Selected Publications

14b Goral S, Prak EL, Kearns J, Bloom R, Pierce E, Doyle A, Grossman R, Naji A, Kamoun M. : Preformed Donor-Directed Anti-HLA-DP Antibodies May Be an Impediment to Successful Kidney Transplantation. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 23(1): 390-392, Jan 2008.

80 Trofe-Clark J, Reese PP, Patel HJ, Jakobowski D, Goral S, Doll SL, Abt PL, Bloom RD. 2 ae : Efficacy and safety of extended-duration inpatient-to-outpatient rabbit antithymocyte globulin induction in de novo kidney transplant recipients: 6-month outcomes. 47 Transplantation 94(5): 506-12, September 2012.

a7 Karuturi M, Shah N, Frank D, Fasan O, Reshef R, Ahya VN, Bromberg M, Faust T, Goral S, Schuster SJ, Stadtmauer EA, Tsai DE. 2 64 : Plasmacytic post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder: a case series of nine patients. 24 Transpl Int. Jun;26(6):616-22 2 2e Page: 616-622, June 2013.

94 Goral S, Brukamp K, Ticehurst EH, Abt PL, Bloom RD, Kearns J, Constantinescu S, Kamoun M, Tomaszewski J. 2 4f : Transplant nephrectomy: histologic findings—a single center study. 5d American Journal of Nephrology 40(5): 491-8, Epub 2014 Dec 9. 2014.

77 Sawinski D, Forde KA, Trofe-Clark J, Patel P, Olivera B, Goral S, Bloom RD. 2 89 : Persistent BK viremia does not increase intermediate-term graft loss but is associated with de novo donor-specific antibodies. 4b J Am Soc Nephrol (JASN) 26(4): 966-75, April 2015.

20e Van Buren PN, Lewis JB, Dwyer JP, Greene T, Middleton J, Sika M, Umanath K, Abraham JD, Arfeen SS, Bowline IG, Chernin G, Fadem SZ, Goral S, Koury M, Sinsakul MV, Weiner DE; Collaborative Study Group.: The Phosphate Binder Ferric Citrate and Mineral Metabolism and Inflammatory Markers in Maintenance Dialysis Patients: Results From Prespecified Analyses of a Randomized Clinical Trial. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 66(3): 479-88, September 2015.

127 Sawinski D, Kaur N, Lim MA, Forde K, Goral S, Bloom R.: "Successful treatment of hepatitis c in renal transplant recipients with direct-acting antiviral agents" American Journal of Transplantation 16(5): 1588-95, May 2016.

135 Jalal D, McFadden M, Dwyer JP, Umanath K, Aguilar E, Yagil Y, Greco B, Sika M, Lewis JB, Greene T, Goral S.: Adherence rates to ferric citrate as compared to active control in patients with end stage kidney disease on dialysis. Hemodialysis International 2 30 21(2): 243-249, April 2017.

41 Sawinsky, D, Goral S. 9b : BK Infection: an Update on Diagnosis and Treatment. Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation 30(2): 209-17, February 2015.

eb Sever, MS, Goral, S. : Kidney transplantation due to medical urgency: time for reconsideration? Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 31(9): 1376-7, September 2016.

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