Deepa Chand, MD, MHSA, FASN
| Board Certified General Pediatrics and Nephrology, American Board of Pediatrics |
| Professor of Clinical Pediatrics University of Illinois College of Medicine/Children’s Hospital of Illinois, Chicago, IL |
Dr. Deepa Chand is a Board-Certified Pediatric Nephrologist with over 20 years of clinical, research, and teaching experience. She obtained her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She also holds a Masters in Health Services Administration from Xavier University. After completing a residency in General Pediatrics at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, she completed a fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
She has held prestigious faculty positions at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Akron Children’s Hospital, and Rush University Medical Center, Washington University School of Medicine & St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and currently is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and maintains a clinical practice at the University of Illinois, College of Medicine-Peoria and Children’s Hospital of Illinois.
She has authored over 50 publications including co-editing “The Clinician’s Manual of Pediatric Nephrology”. She has received numerous teaching awards and community leadership recognition. Her passion remains the care of children with chronic kidney disease, especially end-stage kidney disease, with an emphasis on pediatric vascular access. She has co-chaired the Pediatric Fistula First Initiative and continues to be champion of optimizing dialysis access in addition to the general care of children with kidney diseases.
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