Description of Clinical Expertise
Osama El Shamy MD is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine in the Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension division. He completed his medical school training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and completed both his nephrology fellowship fellowships at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He also completed an additional year of fellowship at the same institution to in home dialysis (Home Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis).Dr. El Shamy is the Medical Director at the DaVita Cedar Grove dialysis unit in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to joining Penn, he was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University and George Washington University. During his time at Vanderbilt he established a dialysis fellowship and he served as Associate Nephrology Fellowship Program Director and the director of the ESRD service at George Washington.