Kevin Edward Meyers, MBBCh
Professor of Pediatrics (Nephrology) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

- Vice Chair, Committees for Protection of Human Subjects (IRB), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Division: Nephrology
Contact Information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics
9th Floor The HUB
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215 590 4155
Fax: 215 590 3705
Email: meyersk@email.chop.edu
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Education
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M.B., B.Ch
University of the Witwatersrand (cum laude), 1983 -
FCP (S.A.) (Pediatrics)
Fellow of the South African College of Medicine, 1989 -
D.T.M. & H
University of the Witwatersrand (cum laude), 1991 -
MD (Medicine)
ECFMG 0-494-158-9, 1993
Post-Graduate Training
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Intern in Medicine and Surgery
Hillbrow Hospital, Johannesburg, 1984 - 1984 -
Senior Intern in Pediatrics
Johannesburg Hospital, 1985 - 1985 -
Pediatric Resident
Johannesburg, Coronation and Baragwanath Hospitals, 1986 - 1989 -
Senior Resident, helped run the Pediatric Renal Unit
Johannesburg Hospital, 1989 - 1990 -
Nephrology Fellowship
CHOP, 1994 - 1997 -
Pediatric 3rd year residency
CHOP, 1997 - 1998 -
Research Fellow in the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, 1995 - 1999
Certifications
- FCP (SA) Pediatrics, South African College of Medicine and University of the Witwatersrand, 1989
- American Board of Pediatrics, 2005
- American Board of Pediatric Nephrology, 2006
Description of ITMAT Expertise
Dr. Meyers is studying: a) novel biological and other immunosuppressive agents in pediatric kidney transplantation, b) the cardiovascular well-being of children following kidney transplant and c) hypertension in children, including those with renovascular hypertension; hypertension in ESRD/kidney transplant; and evaluation of anti-hypertensive use in children.
Selected Publications
- Kamsheh AM, Meyers KE, Palermo RA, Burstein DS, Edelson JB, Lin KY, Maeda K, Rossano JW, Wittlieb-Weber CA, O’Connor MJ. : Hypertension: An Important but Reversible Cause of Systolic Dysfunction in a Cohort of Pediatric Patients. Pediatric Cardiology 45(2) : 331-339, February 2024
- Kogon AJ, Maqsood AM, LoGuidice J, Amaral S, Meyers K, Mitchell JA. : Sleep Duration and Blood Pressure in Youth Referred for Elevated Blood Pressure Evaluation. Pediatrics Online ahead of print 2024
- Maniar A, Gipson DS, Brady T, Srivastava T, Selewski DT, Greenbaum LA, Dell KM, Kaskel F, Massengill S, Tran C, Trachtman H, Lafayette R, Almaani S, Hingorani S, Wang CS, Reidy K, Cara-Fuentes G, Gbadegesin R, Meyers KE, Sethna CB; Members of the Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE). : Growth in children with nephrotic syndrome: a post hoc analysis of the NEPTUNE study. Pediatric Nephrology Online ahead of print. 2024
- Wang L, Smith-Salzberg B, Meyers KEC, Glenn DA, Tuttle KR, Derebail VK, Brady TM, Gibson K, Smith AR, O'Shaughnessy MM, Srivastava T, Hall G, Zee J, Bitzer M, Sethna CB. : Tobacco exposure in adults and children with proteinuric glomerulopathies: a NEPTUNE cohort study. BMC Nephrology 24(1) February 2023
- Mariani L, Eddy S, AlAkwaa F, ….Meyers KE…Kretzler M. : Precision nephrology identified tumor necrosis factor activation variability in minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Kidney International 103(3) : 565-579, March 2023
- Sethna J, Wong K, Meyers KE : Cardiometabolic Health in Asian American Children. J Racial Ethnic Health Disparities. 2023
- Pfaff M, Denburg M, Meyers KE, Brady T, Leonard M, Hoofnagle AN, Sethna C. : Association of Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 with Blood Pressure in Primary Proteinuric Glomerulopathies American Journal of Nephrology Online ahead of print 2023
- Kuznetsova A, Meyers KE, Dhanantwari P, Laney N, Frank R, and Sethna CB. : Sleep-related breathing disorders and cardiometabolic risk factors in pediatric kidney transplant recipients. Pediatric Transplantation 26(8) : e14355, December 2022
- Gipson DS, Troost JP, Spino C, Attalla S, Tarnoff J, Massengill S, Lafayette R, Vega-Warner V, Adler S, Gipson P, Elliott M, Kaskel F, Fermin D, Moxey-Mims M, Fine RN, Brown EJ, Reidy K, Tuttle K, Gibson K, Lemley KV, Greenbaum LA, Atkinson MA, Hingorani S, Srivastava T, Sethna CB, Meyers KE, Tran C, Dell KM, Wang CS, Yee JL, Sampson MG, Gbadegesin R, Lin JJ, Brady T, Rheault M, Trachtman H. : Comparing Kidney Health Outcomes in Children, Adolescents, and Adults With Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. JAMA Netw Open 5(8) : e2228701, August 2022
- Wang CS, MD, Troost JP, Wang Y, Greenbaum LA, Gibson K, Trachtman H, Srivastava T, Reidy K, Kaskel F, Sethna CB, Meyers KEC, Dell, KM, Tran CL, Singorani S, Lemley KV, Lin JJ, and Gipson DS : Determinants of Medication Adherence in Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome and Associations of Adherence with Clinical Outcomes. Pediatric Nephrology 37(7) : 1585-1595, July 2022