Division Chief & Professor
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Dr. Hsu has been Chief of the Division of Nephrology at UCSF Health since 2007. He currently holds the Dr. Robert W. Schrier Distinguished Professorship in Nephrology. His research spans acute, chronic and end-stage kidney disease and includes both observational studies and clinical trials.

Publications

Probing the association between AKI and cardiovascular outcomes.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN

McCoy IE, Hsu JY, Zhang X, Diamantidis CJ, Taliercio J, Go AS, Liu KD, Drawz P, Srivastava A, Horwitz EJ, He J, Chen J, Lash JP, Weir MR, Hsu CY, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study Investigators

Plasma Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Concentrations and Clinical Events After Hospitalization: Findings From the ASSESS-AKI and ARID Studies.

American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation

Coca SG, Vasquez-Rios G, Mansour SG, Moledina DG, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Wurfel MM, Bhatraju P, Himmelfarb J, Siew E, Garg AX, Hsu CY, Liu KD, Kimmel PL, Chinchilli VM, Kaufman JS, Wilson M, Banks RE, Packington R, McCole E, Kurth MJ, Richardson C, Go AS, Selby NM, Parikh CR

Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD.

The New England journal of medicine

Hsu CY, Yang W, Parikh RV, Anderson AH, Chen TK, Cohen DL, He J, Mohanty MJ, Lash JP, Mills KT, Muiru AN, Parsa A, Saunders MR, Shafi T, Townsend RR, Waikar SS, Wang J, Wolf M, Tan TC, Feldman HI, Go AS, CRIC Study Investigators

Plasma Kidney Injury Molecule 1 in CKD: Findings From the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort and CRIC Studies.

American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation

Schmidt IM, Srivastava A, Sabbisetti V, McMahon GM, He J, Chen J, Kusek J, Taliercio J, Ricardo AC, Hsu CY, Kimmel PL, Liu KD, Mifflin TE, Nelson RG, Ramachandran VS, Xie D, Zhang X, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Feldman HI, Bonventre JV, Waikar SS, Chronic Kidney Disease Biomarkers Consortium and the CRIC Study Investigators

APOL1 Long-term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Network (APOLLO): Design and Rationale.

Kidney international reports

Freedman BI, Moxey-Mims MM, Alexander AA, Astor BC, Birdwell KA, Bowden DW, Bowen G, Bromberg J, Craven TE, Dadhania DM, Divers J, Doshi MD, Eidbo E, Fornoni A, Gautreaux MD, Gbadegesin RA, Gee PO, Guerra G, Hsu CY, Iltis AS, Jefferson N, Julian BA, Klassen DK, Koty PP, Langefeld CD, Lentine KL, Ma L, Mannon RB, Menon MC, Mohan S, Moore JB, Murphy B, Newell KA, Odim J, Ortigosa-Goggins M, Palmer ND, Park M, Parsa A, Pastan SO, Poggio ED, Rajapakse N, Reeves-Daniel AM, Rosas SE, Russell LP, Sawinski D, Smith SC, Spainhour M, Stratta RJ, Weir MR, Reboussin DM, Kimmel PL, Brennan DC

Serum Calcification Propensity and Clinical Events in CKD.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN

Bundy JD, Cai X, Mehta RC, Scialla JJ, de Boer IH, Hsu CY, Go AS, Dobre MA, Chen J, Rao PS, Leonard MB, Lash JP, Block GA, Townsend RR, Feldman HI, Smith ER, Pasch A, Isakova T, CRIC Study Investigators

JAMA Intern Med

Appropriate time for chronic dialysis initiation: a cause for humility.

Chen Z, Hsu CY

BP Control and Long-Term Risk of ESRD and Mortality.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN

Ku E, Gassman J, Appel LJ, Smogorzewski M, Sarnak MJ, Glidden DV, Bakris G, Gutiérrez OM, Hebert LA, Ix JH, Lea J, Lipkowitz MS, Norris K, Ploth D, Pogue VA, Rostand SG, Siew ED, Sika M, Tisher CC, Toto R, Wright JT, Wyatt C, Hsu CY

Relationship of proximal tubular injury to chronic kidney disease as assessed by urinary kidney injury molecule-1 in five cohort studies.

Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association

Waikar SS, Sabbisetti V, Ärnlöv J, Carlsson AC, Coresh J, Feldman HI, Foster MC, Fufaa GD, Helmersson-Karlqvist J, Hsu CY, Kimmel PL, Larsson A, Liu Y, Lind L, Liu KD, Mifflin TE, Nelson RG, Risérus U, Vasan RS, Xie D, Zhang X, Bonventre JV

Cognitive Impairment and Progression of CKD.

American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation

Kurella Tamura M, Yaffe K, Hsu CY, Yang J, Sozio S, Fischer M, Chen J, Ojo A, DeLuca J, Xie D, Vittinghoff E, Go AS

Biomarkers of Vitamin D Status and Risk of ESRD.

American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation

Rebholz CM, Grams ME, Lutsey PL, Hoofnagle AN, Misialek JR, Inker LA, Levey AS, Selvin E, Hsu CY, Kimmel PL, Vasan RS, Eckfeldt JH, Coresh J

Elevated BP after AKI.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN

Hsu CY, Hsu RK, Yang J, Ordonez JD, Zheng S, Go AS

Sentinel

Validation of Acute Kidney Injury Cases

Patel UD, Hardy NC, Smith DH, Gurwitz JH, Hsu CY, Parikh CR, Brunelli SM, Baker M, Forrow S, Comins C, Boudreau DM, Liu C, Pawloski PA, Selvam N, Selvan MS, Stratton S, VanWormer JJ, Aggrey G, Blank M, Archdeacon P

Design of clinical trials in AKI: a report from an NIDDK workshop. Trials of patients with sepsis and in selected hospital settings.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN

Molitoris BA, Okusa MD, Palevsky PM, Chawla LS, Kaufman JS, Devarajan P, Toto RM, Hsu CY, Greene TH, Faubel SG, Kellum JA, Wald R, Chertow GM, Levin A, Waikar SS, Murray PT, Parikh CR, Shaw AD, Go AS, Chinchilli VM, Liu KD, Cheung AK, Weisbord SD, Mehta RL, Stokes JB, Thompson AM, Thompson BT, Westenfelder CS, Tumlin JA, Warnock DG, Shah SV, Xie Y, Duggan EG, Kimmel PL, Star RA

Design of clinical trials in acute kidney injury: a report from an NIDDK workshop--prevention trials.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN

Okusa MD, Molitoris BA, Palevsky PM, Chinchilli VM, Liu KD, Cheung AK, Weisbord SD, Faubel S, Kellum JA, Wald R, Chertow GM, Levin A, Waikar SS, Murray PT, Parikh CR, Shaw AD, Go AS, Chawla LS, Kaufman JS, Devarajan P, Toto RM, Hsu CY, Greene TH, Mehta RL, Stokes JB, Thompson AM, Thompson BT, Westenfelder CS, Tumlin JA, Warnock DG, Shah SV, Xie Y, Duggan EG, Kimmel PL, Star RA

Design of clinical trials in acute kidney injury: report from an NIDDK workshop on trial methodology.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN

Palevsky PM, Molitoris BA, Okusa MD, Levin A, Waikar SS, Wald R, Chertow GM, Murray PT, Parikh CR, Shaw AD, Go AS, Faubel SG, Kellum JA, Chinchilli VM, Liu KD, Cheung AK, Weisbord SD, Chawla LS, Kaufman JS, Devarajan P, Toto RM, Hsu CY, Greene T, Mehta RL, Stokes JB, Thompson AM, Thompson BT, Westenfelder CS, Tumlin JA, Warnock DG, Shah SV, Xie Y, Duggan EG, Kimmel PL, Star RA

Arch Intern Med

Acute kidney injury: glimpses into epidemiology and opportunities for improvement

Hsu RK, Hsu CY

Statist Sci

Defining and estimating intervention effects for groups that will develop an auxiliary outcome

Joffe MM, Small D, Hsu CY.

The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study: Design and Methods.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN

Feldman HI, Appel LJ, Chertow GM, Cifelli D, Cizman B, Daugirdas J, Fink JC, Franklin-Becker ED, Go AS, Hamm LL, He J, Hostetter T, Hsu CY, Jamerson K, Joffe M, Kusek JW, Landis JR, Lash JP, Miller ER, Mohler ER, Muntner P, Ojo AO, Rahman M, Townsend RR, Wright JT

N Eng J Med

Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital: a home-court advantage

Hsu CY.