Teresa Katie Chen

Assistant Professor
Medicine - Nephrology
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America

Doctor Nephrology
Biography

Dr. Teresa Chen is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Chen received her undergraduate degree from Yale University, her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and her master's degree in clinical epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine/Barnes-Jewish Hospital and fellowship in nephrology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her clinical and research interests include chronic kidney disease and its complications.

Research Intrest

Chronic kidney disease; Epidemiology; APOL1

List of Publications
APOL1 risk variants and death among African American hemodialysis patients: survival of the fittest? Chen TK, Estrella MM. Kidney international. 2016; 90(2):249-52.
Longitudinal changes in hematocrit in hypertensive chronic kidney disease: results from the African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK). Chen TK, Estrella MM, Astor BC, Greene T, Wang X, Grams ME, Appel LJ. Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association. 2015; 30(8):1329-35.
Examination of Potential Modifiers of the Association of APOL1 Alleles with CKD Progression. Chen TK, Choi MJ, Kao WH, Astor BC, Scialla JJ, Appel LJ, Li L, Lipkowitz MS, Wolf M, Parekh RS, Winkler CA, Estrella MM, Crews DC. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN. 2015; 10(12):2128-35.