SEATTLE—Dr. Suhail Ahmad has been named director of dialysis research at the Kidney Research Institute, which is a partnership between Northwest Kidney Centers and University of Washington Division of Nephrology.
As the director of dialysis research, Ahmad will be responsible for overseeing research to advance care for in-center and home dialysis patients to help ensure that the treatment is as safe and effective as possible.
“Dr. Ahmad is a highly respected dialysis investigator with many years of research experience at the University of Washington and at Northwest Kidney Centers,” said Dr. Jonathan Himmelfarb, director of the Kidney Research Institute. “He is ideally suited to function as a physician liaison for research at Northwest Kidney Centers.”
A nephrologist and hypertension specialist, Ahmad has been part of Northwest Kidney Centers for more than 30 years as medical director of the Scribner Kidney Center in Seattle. Recently, he took on an additional role of senior medical director, overseeing dialysis technology. He is an expert in water systems and machines, both of which play important roles in dialysis treatment.
Ahmad is a graduate of the University of Allahabad’s MLN Medical College in Uttar Pradesh, India. He completed a fellowship in nephrology at the University of Washington Medical Center, where he is a professor of medicine for the Division of Nephrology. Ahmad is also the director of the UW Medical Center’s plasma exchange and dialysis program and medical director of the center’s hypertension clinic.
Ahmad holds numerous awards and honors, including The James W. Haviland Award from Northwest Kidney Centers for Outstanding Achievement in Nephrology in 2006, and was voted by peers to be included in “The Best Doctors in America” list (Pacific edition) for 2001-2010, 1998 and 1996.
The Kidney Research Institute was established in 2008 in Seattle as a collaboration between Northwest Kidney Centers and UW Medicine Division of Nephrology. The institute is focused on developing early detection, prevention and treatment of kidney disease and its complications.