Dr. Satnam Singh Sandhu, M.D.

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• Government Medical College Amritsar, Baba Farid University Of Health Sciences Medical School | Graduated 1985
• Govt Med College Amritsar Internship Hospital | Completed 1984
• St Lukes Med Ctr/ Case Western Res University Internship Hospital | Completed 1990
• Govt Med College Amritsar Residency Hospital | Completed 1985
• St Lukes Med Ctr/case Western Res University Residency Hospital | Completed 1992
• University Pittsburgh Med Center Fellowship Hospital | Completed

Fellowships

• University of Pittsburg Medical Center  Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Nephrology/Hypertension July 1993-June 1995
  

Medical Licensure:

• State of Ohio since 1991 
• Board Certification in Internal Medicine-1993
• Board Certification in Nephrology-1997
• Recertified in 2009

Practice:

• Cleveland Clinic Health System-Eastern Region
• St. Luke’s Medical Center office sites
• University Hospitals-CWRU School of Medicine

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
• American College of Physicians (ACP)
• Amritsar Medical & Dental Alumni Association of North America (AMDAANA)
• Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA)

FACP since May, 2016

Academic

• Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine- CWRU School of Medicine Appointed July, 1997
• Assistant Clinical Professor Nephrology at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2009 

Teaching Activities 

•  Involved in different residency teaching programs as teaching, attending in the department of Medicine and Division of Nephrology at following hospitals: 

--St. Luke’s Medical Center (1995-1999)

--Huron Rd. Hospital (1997-2010)

--South Pointe Hospital (1998-present)

• Teaching also involved giving didactic lectures in the field of General Nephrology at above mentioned hospitals and doing Renal rotations with the residents and medical students

Leadership Activities

•  Currently Chief of Nephrology at South Pointe hospital for the last 10 years Medical Director at CDC dialysis clinic since 2007
• Served as a secretary for local Indians Physician Organization named as AIPNO

Running free clinic as a Medical Director at a local Sikh temple named as Bhai Ghanaiya Clinic since 2010

Publication

• Sandhu, S. Bernadine J., Praino B., Kt/V as predictor of patient technique survival in peritoneal dialysis (PD); Peritoneal Dialysis International Vol. 25., Suppl. I, 1995; abstracts of XV Annual CAPD Conference

Medical Education

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, School of Medicine, Colombia. July 1992-December 1996

Universidad del Zulia, School of Medicine, Venezuela  January 1989-June 1992

Residency and Fellowship

Nephrology. Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Cleveland, OH  July 2012 –June2014 

Nephrology. Universitary Hospital Juan Canalejo. La Coruña, Spain. Sept. 2002-Sept. 2004

Internal Medicine. Albert Einstein Medical Center. Philadelphia, PA June 1999-July 2002

Work Experience

Renal Medicine, Cleveland, OH July 2014-Present

Nephrology 

Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Cleveland, OH   December 2009-June 2012

Staff Physician/Internal Medicine

Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida. Fort Myers, FL   June 2006 to November 2009

Staff Physician/Internal Medicine. J1 visa waiver position. 

Hospital San Rafael. La Coruña, Spain  November 2004-May 2006 

Staff Physician/Nephrology and dialysis

Hospital I La Canada de Urdaneta. La Canada, Venezuela   January 1998-January 1999

Compulsory rural service/Staff Physician 

Certifications, memberships and licenses

Board Certified in Nephrology November 2015 

Board Certified in Internal Medicine  August 2002 and 2012

USMLE Step One  June 1997

USMLE Step Two    March 1997

USMLE Step Three   November 2000

ECFMG certificate:  December 1997

Ohio State License:   Expiration date: January 2019  

Publications       

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
GARCIA-NAVEIRO R, Rodriguez-Carmona A, Pérez-Fontán M. Agreement between two routine methods of estimation of glomerular filtration rate in patients with advanced and terminal chronic renal failure. Clin Nephrol. 2005 Oct; 64(4): 271-80.   

Pérez Fontan M, Rodríguez-Carmona A, GARCIA-NAVEIRO R, Rosales M, Villaverde P, Valdés F.. Peritonitis-related mortality in patients undergoing chronic peritoneal dialysis. Perit Dial Int. 2005 Jun; 25(3): 274-84.   

Pérez-Fontán M, Cordido F, Rodríguez-Carmona A, GARCIA-NAVEIRO R, Isidro ML, Villaverde P, García-Buela J.. Acute plasma ghrelin and leptin responses to oral feeding or intraperitoneal hypertonic glucose-based dialysate in patients with chronic renal failure. Kidney Int. 2005 Dec; 68(6): 2877-85.   

Pérez-Fontán M, Cordido F, Rodríguez-Carmona A, Peteiro J, GARCIA-NAVEIRO R, García-Buela J.. Plasma ghrelin levels in patients undergoing haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2004 Aug; 19(8): 2095-100.   

Rodriguez-Carmona A, Pérez-Fontán M, GARCIA-NAVEIRO R, Villaverde P, Peteiro J.. Compared time profiles of ultrafiltration, sodium removal, and renal function in incident CAPD and automated peritoneal dialysis patients.. Am J Kidney Dis. 2004 Jul; 44(1): 132-45.   

Villaverde Verdejo P, Fernández Rivera C, Alonso Hernández A, GARCIA-NAVEIRO R, Cao Vilariño M, Tresancos Fernández C, Valdés Cañedo F. Evaluation of renal grafts in patients with lupus nephritis as cause of end-stage renal disease. Transplant Proc. 2005 Apr; 37(3): 1426-7.   

Poster Presentation 

GARCIA R, Kansal K, Schreiber M. Effect of Peritoneal Dialysis Modality and Peritoneal Membrane characteristics on Phosphorus Level and Management. ASN kidney Week 2013 annual meeting; Atlanta, GA. November, 2013. 

GARCIA R, Hall P. Rapidly progressive kidney injury leading to ESRD in a patient with Crohn’s disease. National Kidney Foundation Meeting; Orlando, FL. April, 2013

GARCIA-NAVEIRO R, Alonso-Hernández A, Fernández-Rivera C, Villaverde-Verdejo P, Oliver J, Cao-Vilariño M, Tresancos-Fernández C, Valdés-Cañedo F. Prophylaxis with low dose ganciclovir for CMV prevention on high risk renal transplant recipients (D+/R-). XXXIII National Congress Spanish Society of Nephrology.; Palma de Mallorca, Spain. October, 2003  

Oral Presentation 

GARCIA-NAVEIRO R, Rodriguez-Carmona A, Pérez-Fontán M. Correlation between two methods of estimation of glomerular filtration rate in patients with advance chronic renal disease. Oral Presentation presented at: XXXIV National Congress Spanish Society of Nephrology Tenerife, Spain. October, 2004