Deirdre L Sawinski - Faculty Biosketch

Deirdre L Sawinski, MD

Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension)

Department: Medicine

Contact information

Weill Cornell Medical College
1300 York Avenue, Rm. A569
New York, NY 10065

Office: 917-757-4708
Fax: 212-746-6894

Email:
deirdre.sawinski@uphs.upenn.edu

Education:
BA
New York University, 1999.
MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2003.

Links
Penn Kidney Transplant Program
Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Research Interests--Nephrology Clinical Research
https://www.pennmedicine.org/departments-and-centers/department-of-medicine/divisions/renal-electrolyte-and-hypertension-division

Post-Graduate Training
Intern, Internal Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2003-2004.
Resident, Internal Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2004-2006.
Fellow, Nephrology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, 2006-2009.
Renal Transplant Fellow, Nephrology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, 2009-2010.

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 2006.
American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, 2008.
American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology Knowledge Check-in, 2018.

Permanent link

> Perelman School of Medicine > Faculty > Details

Selected Publications

Ana S Iltis, Maya Mehta, Deirdre Sawinski: Ignorance is Not Bliss: The Case for Comprehensive Reproductive Counseling for Women with Chronic Kidney Disease. HEC forum: an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues 3(35): 223-236, September 2023.

Manhal Izzy, Brett E Fortune, Marina Serper, Nicole Bhave, Andrew deLemos, Juan F Gallegos-Orozco, Cesar Guerrero-Miranda, Shelley Hall, Matthew E Harinstein, Maria G Karas, Michael Kriss, Nicholas Lim, Maryse Palardy, Deirdre Sawinski, Emily Schonfeld, Anil Seetharam, Pratima Sharma, Jose Tallaj, Darshana M Dadhania, Lisa B VanWagner: Management of cardiac diseases in liver transplant recipients: Comprehensive review and multidisciplinary practice-based recommendations Am J Transplant 12(22): 2740-58, December 2022.

Erika S Helgeson, Elise F Palzer, David M Vock, Paige Porrett, Deirdre Sawinski, Arthur J Matas: Pre-kidney Donation Pregnancy Complications and Long-term Outcomes. Transplantation 10(106): 2052-2062, October 2022.

Hannah Imlay, Paul Baum, Daniel C Brennan, Kimberly E Hanson, Michael R Hodges, Aimee C Hodowanec, Takashi E Komatsu, Per Ljungman, Veronica Miller, Yoichiro Natori, Volker Nickeleit, Jules O'Rear, Andreas Pikis, Parmjeet S Randhawa, Deirdre Sawinski, Harsharan K Singh, Gabriel Westman, Ajit P Limaye: Consensus Definitions of BK Polyomavirus Nephropathy in Renal Transplant Recipients for Clinical Trials. Clin Infect Dis 7(75): 1210-16, September 2022.

Deirdre Sawinski, Hanna Lindner, Robert Fitzsimmons, Justine Shults, Jayme E Locke, Jordana B Cohen, Paul A MacLennan, Peter P Reese: Dialysis Nonadherence and Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study Am J Kidney Dis 1(80), July 2022.

Amanda J Vinson, Sunita Singh, Steven Chadban, David Cherney, Osama Gaber, John S Gill, Erika Helgeson, Charles A Herzog, Meg Jardine, Vivekanand Jha, Bertram L Kasiske, Roslyn B Mannon, Erin D Michos, Amy K Mottl, Kristin Newby, Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, Deirdre Sawinski, Adnan Sharif, Vikas S Sridhar, Katherine R Tuttle, David M Vock, Arthur Matas: Premature Death in Kidney Transplant Recipients: The Time for Trials is Now. J Am Soc Nephrol 4(33): 665-673, April 2022.

V. S. Potluri, D. E. Schaubel, M. E. Sise, B. P. Concepcion, R. C. Forbes, E. A. Blumberg, D. Goldberg, P. P. Reese, R. Bloom, D. Shaffer, R. Chung, D. Sawinski, I. Strohben, N. Elias, A. Azhar, M. Shah1, J. Eason, L. A. Binari, M. Talwar, V. Balaraman5, A. Bhalla, B. Besharatian, M. Z. Molnar: Association of Donor Hepatitis C Virus Infection Status and Risk of Bk Polyomavirus Viremia After Kidney Transplantation American Journal of Transplant 2(22): 599-609, February 2022.

Emma L Lewis, Rong Xu, Jean-Christophe Beltra, Shin Foong Ngiow, Jordana Cohen, Rahul Telange, Alexander Crane, Deirdre Sawinski, E John Wherry, Paige M Porrett: NFAT-dependent and -independent exhaustion circuits program maternal CD8 T cell hypofunction in pregnancy. J Exp Med 1(219), January 2022.

A Cozette Killian, Brittany Shelton, Paul MacLennan, M Chandler McLeod, Alexis Carter, Rhiannon Reed, Haiyan Qu, Babak Orandi, Vineeta Kumar, Deirdre Sawinski, Jayme E Locke: Evaluation of Community-Level Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplant. JAMA Surgery 156(1): 1120-29, December 2021.

Jordan G. Nestor, Amber J. Li, Kristen L. King, S. Ali Husain, Tristan J. McIntosh, Deirdre Sawinski, Ana S. Iltis, Melody S. Goodman, Heidi A. Walsh, James M. DuBois, Sumit Mohan: Impact of education on APOL1 testing attitudes among prospective living kidney donors Clinical Transplantation 36(1), October 2021 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1111/ctr.14516.