Hasan Fattah
Hasan Fattah
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This faculty member is affiliated with UBMD, practicing physicians who are also professors in the Jacobs School.
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Transplant Nephrology Associate Professor University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical
Science
Engaged in all aspects of the evaluation and management of the transplant patients. My goal is to help improving medical and surgical therapeutic options. I participate in periodic quality and selection committees and assume a key role as a member of the multidisciplinary transplant team to facilitate collaboration with
transplant surgeons, physicians, administrators, coordinators and support staff.
Supervising Medical students, residents, Nephrology fellows academic education. In addition engaged in multiple teaching activities.
most recently published a teaching book in kidney transplant cases under the title "Transplantation in Practice: Lessons from Common and Complex Kidney Cases" which is a comprehensive educational resource edited by myself and the help of my renal pathology colleagues. published by Springer in 2026
I am very thrilled about my recent paper publication "Reduction in Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA After Rejection Treatment is Associated With Improved Long Term Allograft Function” for which I served as a co Autor and supervisor.
Education and Training:
- Fellowship, Transplant Nephrology Fellow, VCU (2015)
- Fellowship, Nephrology fellowship, NYU (2014)
- Residency, Internal Medicine residency, Saint Raphael/Yale (2012)
- MD, University of Aleppo (2003)
Employment:
- Associate professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine/Nephrology, University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science (2025–2026)
- Medical director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant, Internal Medicine/Nephrology, University of KentuckY (2021–2024)
- Associate professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine/Nephrology, University of Kentucky (2017–2024)
- Clinical Instructor., Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (2015–2017)
Awards and Honors:
- Wethington Excellence in Research Award 2022. (2023)
Research Expertise:
- KIDNEY TRANSPLANT: molecular data
Journal Articles:
- Schumacher L, Philippart O, Yau J, Shuaib F, Paluri S, Castellanos AL, Schadler A, Fattah H. (2026) Reduction in Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA After Rejection Treatment is Associated With Improved Long Term Allograft Function. Clinical transplantation (Jun), 40(6): e70603.
- Stites E, Kumar D, Olaitan O, John Swanson S, Leca N, Weir M, Bromberg J, Melancon J, Agha I, Fattah H, Alhamad T, Qazi Y, Wiseman A, Gupta G. (2020) High levels of dd-cfDNA identify patients with TCMR 1A and borderline allograft rejection at elevated risk of graft injury. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (Sep), 20(9): 2491-2498.
- Malha L, Fattah H, Modersitzki F, Goldfarb DS. (2019) Blood volume analysis as a guide for dry weight determination in chronic hemodialysis patients: a crossover study. BMC nephrology (Feb), 20(1): 47.
- Bobba S, Fattah H, Massey HD, Gupta G. (2018) New-onset serositis in a kidney transplant patient. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (Feb), 18(2): 518-520.
- Fattah H, Kumar D, George JN, Massey HD, King AL, Friedman KD, Gupta G. (2017) Successful kidney transplantation in a patient with congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (Upshaw-Schulman syndrome). Transfusion (Dec), 57(12): 3058-3062.
- Gupta G, Kang L, Yu JW, Limkemann AJ, Garcia V, Bandyopadhyay D, Kumar D, Fattah H, Levy M, Cotterell AH, Sharma A, Bhati C, Reichman T, King AL, Sterling R. (2017) Long-term outcomes and transmission rates in hepatitis C virus-positive donor to hepatitis C virus-negative kidney transplant recipients: Analysis of United States national data. Clinical transplantation (Oct), 31(10).
- Gupta G, Fattah H, Ayalon R, Kidd J, Gehr T, Quintana LF, Kimball P, Sadruddin S, Massey HD, Kumar D, King AL, Beck LH. (2016) Pre-transplant phospholipase A2 receptor autoantibody concentration is associated with clinically significant recurrence of membranous nephropathy post-kidney transplantation. Clinical transplantation (Apr), 30(4): 461-9.
- Kumar D, Fattah H, Kimball PM, LeCorchick S, McDougan FA, King AL, Gupta G. (2016) Post-transplant Desensitization for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Experience. Clinical transplants (Jan), 32: 143-151.
- Fattah H, Hambaroush Y, Goldfarb DS. (2014) Cystine nephrolithiasis. Translational andrology and urology (Sep), 3(3): 228-233.