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
1300 York Avenue, Rm. A569
New York, NY 10065
Office: 917-757-4708
Fax: 212-746-6894
Fax: 212-746-6894
Links
Penn Kidney Transplant Program
https://www.pennmedicine.org/departments-and-centers/department-of-medicine/divisions/renal-electrolyte-and-hypertension-division
Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Research Interests--Nephrology Clinical Research
Penn Kidney Transplant Program
https://www.pennmedicine.org/departments-and-centers/department-of-medicine/divisions/renal-electrolyte-and-hypertension-division
Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Research Interests--Nephrology Clinical Research
Education:
BA
New York University, 1999.
MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2003.
Permanent linkBA
New York University, 1999.
MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2003.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Dr. Sawinski's clinical expertise is in the area of renal transplantation, with specific focus on transplant in HCV+ or HIV+ recipients. Her practice includes other solid organ transplant recipients (heart, liver, and lung) with renal disease.Description of Research Expertise
Dr. Sawinski's research interests include the effects of immunomodulatory viruses such as HCV, HIV,and BK on renal transplantation and the development of renal disease in other solid organ transplant recipients.Selected Publications
Won Jun Lee, Deirdre Sawinski, Paul MacLennan, Haoxiang Cheng, Samreen Zafer, Robin M Nance, Joseph A Delaney, Bridget M Whitney, Sonia Napravnik, Edward R Cachay, Laura Bamford, Peter W Hunt, Jeffrey M Jacobson, Richard D Moore, Jeanne Keruly, Mari M Kitahata, Kenneth H Mayer, Michael S Saag, Girish Nadkarni, Heidi M Crane, Ke Hao, Nicole F Pelletier, Paola Nicoletti, Jayme E Locke, Inga Peter: Polygenic Risk Scores for CKD Among an Ethnically Diverse Cohort of People With HIV AM J Kidney Dis 6(85): 799-802, June 2025.Jon Kobashigawa, Josh Levitsky, Neeraj Singh, Kiran Khush, Sean Pinney, Elizabeth Aby, Aasim Afzal, Deborah Adey, Anshul Bhalla, Mona Doshi, Samira Farouk, Alyson Fox, Shelley Hall, Michelle Kittleson, Lindsay King, Alexander Kuo, Deborah Levine, Yosef Manla, Jamak Modaresi Esfeh, Arjmand Mufti, Prince Mohan Anand, Michael Nurok, J P Norvell, Neehar Parikh, Anjana Pillai, Faruq Pradhan, Allison Ramsey, Milagros Samaniego-Picota, Ishna Poojary-Hohman, Manpreet Samra, Deirdre Sawinski, Kelly Schlendorf, Stuart Sweet, Bekir Tanriover, Sarthak Virmani, Roy D Bloom: Recommendations to overcome barriers to transplant fellowship training: A report from the American Society of Transplantation Fellows Task Force Am J Transplant May 2025.
Ana Iltis 1, Glenda V Roberts 2 3, Marva Moxey-Mims 4, Alexis Conell 3, Jennifer Davis 3, Rasheed Gbadegesin 5, Patrick Gee 3, Nichole Jefferson 3, Heather Johnson 3, Giftay Kingston 3, Kathryn Lindsay 6, Mariella Ortigosa-Goggins 6, Sylvia Rosas 7, Laurie Russell 8, Krista L Lentine 6; APOLLO Network Dissemination Working Group; APOLLO Network Steering Committee: Practical Considerations for Sharing Race-Based Genetic Research Findings J Am Soc Nephrol 4(36): 730-733, April 2025.
Xinqi Liu, Jennifer Trofe-Clark, Deirdre Sawinski, Brendan Steiner, Shahreen Sharma, Stephanie Witek, Tara Fallah, Maxwell Norris, Chelsea Sammons, Gregory Malat: Decreasing the Risk of Early Sub-Therapeutic Tacrolimus Troughs on Short-Term Outcomes in Low-Moderate Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction Clin Transplant 4(39), April 2025.
Augusto Cama-Olivares 1, Tianqi Ouyang 2, Tomonori Takeuchi 1 3, Shelsea A St Hillien 2, Jevon E Robinson 2, Raymond T Chung 4, Giuseppe Cullaro 5, Constantine J Karvellas 6, Josh Levitsky 7 8, Eric S Orman 9, Kavish R Patidar 10, Kevin R Regner 11, Danielle L Saly 2, Deirdre Sawinski 12, Pratima Sharma 13, J Pedro Teixeira 14, Nneka N Ufere 4, Juan Carlos Q Velez 15, Hani M Wadei 16, Nabeel Wahid 8, Andrew S Allegretti 2, Javier A Neyra 1, Justin M Belcher 17; HRS-HARMONY Consortium: Association of Hepatorenal Syndrome-Acute Kidney Injury with Mortality in Patients with Cirrhosis Requiring Renal Replacement Therapy: Results from the HRS-HARMONY Consortium Kidney360 2(6): 247-256, February 2025.
Shelsea A St Hillien, Jevon E Robinson, Tianqi Ouyang, Kavish R Patidar, Justin M Belcher, Giuseppe Cullaro, Kevin R Regner, Raymond T Chung, Nneka Ufere, Juan Carlos Q Velez, Javier A Neyra, Sumeet K Asrani, Hani Wadei, J Pedro Teixeira, Danielle L Saly, Josh Levitsky, Eric Orman, Deirdre Sawinski, Leigh Anne Dageforde, Andrew S Allegretti; HRS-HARMONY Consortium: Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with Cirrhosis and Chronic Kidney Disease: Results from the HRS-HARMONY Consortium Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol December 2024.
Deirdre L Sawinski, Shikha Mehta, Tarek Alhamad, Jonathan S Bromberg, Bernard Fischbach, Thomas Aeschbacher, Srinka Ghosh, Grigoriy Shekhtman, Sham Dholakia, Daniel C Brennan, Emilio Poggio, Roy D Bloom, Stanley C Jordan: Association between dd-cfDNA levels, de novo donor specific antibodies, and eGFR decline: An analysis of the DART cohort Clinical Transplantation 9(35), September 2024.
Neeraj Singh, Prince M Anand, Gaurav Gupta, Deirdre Sawinski, Oren Fix, Deborah Adey, Enver Akalin, Carlos Zayas, Darshana Dadhani, Mona Doshi, Diane Cibrik, Mallika Gupta, Ronald Parsons, Nicolae Leca, Rowena Delos Santos, Beatrice P Concepcion, Angie G Nishio Lucar, Song Ong, Vikas Srinivasan Sridhar, Sandesh Parajuli, Mareena Zachariah, Shikha Mehta, Karim Soliman, Saed Shawar, Syed Ali Husain, Luke Preczewski, John Friedewald, Sumit Mohan, Alexander Wiseman, Millie Samaniego, Vineeta Kumar, Bekir Tanriover, Roy Bloom: Should Transplant Nephrology Pursue Recognition from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)? Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 8(19): 1051-1060, August 2024.
Ronald F Parsons, Krista L Lentine, Mona Doshi, Ty B Dunn, Rachel Forbes, Jonathan A Fridell, Michelle T Jesse, Martha Pavlakis, Deirdre Sawinski, Neeraj Singh, David A Axelrod, Matthew Cooper; Workshop Participants: Generating strategies for a national comeback in pancreas transplantation: A Delphi survey and US conference report AM J Transplant 8(24): 1473-1485, August 2024.
Tristan McIntosh, Heidi Walsh, Kari Baldwin, Ana Iltis, Sumit Mohan, Deirdre Sawinski, Melody Goodman, James M DuBois: Evaluating ApoL1 Genetic Testing Policy Options for Transplant Centers: A Delphi Consensus Panel Project with Stakeholders Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 4(19): 494-502, April 2024.