Dr. Vandana Dua Niyyar is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Emory University. She received her medical degree from Pt BDS Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India in 1995 and did part of her residency in Internal Medicine at Research and Referral Army Hospital, Delhi, India until 1998. Subsequently, after immigration to the United States, she completed another residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Louisville in 2002. She then went on to join her fellowship in Nephrology at Emory University in 2003, after completion of which she has stayed on as faculty at Emory University.
She serves on national committees in the field of vascular access; and is currently Chair of the Hemodialysis Vascular Access Committee and has been re-elected as a Councilor for ASDIN. Dr. Niyyar has a special interest in gout and its management in CKD patients and is one of the authors (and the only nephrologist) on the recently published American College of Rheumatology Gout Guidelines.
With Dr. Niyyar we talked about nephrolithiasis.
