Nilum Rajora, M.D.

Internal Medicine - Nephrology
Kidney Disease (Nephrology)

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Biography

Nilum Rajora, M.D., is a Professor in the Division of Nephrology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is a specialist in kidney transplant medicine and serves as Medical Director for the DaVita/UT Southwestern Dallas East dialysis unit, the William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital dialysis unit, and Zale Lipshy University Hospital’s acute dialysis unit.

Dr. Rajora earned her medical degree at UT Southwestern Medical School, where she also completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in nephrology.

Certified in internal medicine and nephrology by the American Board of Internal Medicine, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2007.

Dr. Rajora has contributed to chapters in internal medicine and pathology books and has published a number of articles on renal disease and transplantation.

She is a member of the American Society of Nephrology and the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), as well as an ISN Educational Ambassador, a position that allows her to collaborate on research, teaching, and clinical projects with Delta State University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. She also assists UT Southwestern Medical School with medical students’ global health rotations in India.

Personal Note

Dr. Rajora’s interests outside of medicine include spending time with her family, traveling, and cooking.

Education & Training

Fellowship - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2003-2005), Nephrology
Internship/Residency - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2000-2003), Internal Medicine
Medical School - UT Southwestern Medical Center (1996-2000)

Books & Publications

Publications
- Screening for risk factors of kidney disease in a rural population in delta state, Nigeria: a world kidney day 2012 study
  O.C. Okoye, I Idenigbe, A.B. Odonmeta, O.G. Edema, N Rajora Annals of Biomedical Sciences 2017 16 (1); 42-51
- Acute kidney injury from Paraquat poisoning: a case report.
  H. E. Slater, O.C.A. Okoye, O. Okperi, N. Rajora Annals of Biomedical Sciences 2017 16 (2); 10-13
- Prevalence and risk factors of intra-dialytic hypotension: a 5 year retrospective report from a single Nigerian Centre.
  Okoye OC, Slater HE, Rajora N The Pan African medical journal 2017 28 62
- Screening for chronic kidney disease and its risk factors in Oghara, Nigeria: a World Kidney Day 2014 report
  Ogochukwu C. Okoye, Henry Ovwasa, Anthony G. Kweki, Isoken Idenigbe, Nyemike Awunor, Ayo B. Odonmeta, Nilum Rajora Highland Medical Research Journal 2017 17 (1): 6-10
- Acute Rejection Rates and Graft Outcomes According to Induction Regimen among Recipients of Kidneys from Deceased Donors Treated with Tacrolimus and Mycophenolate.
  Tanriover B, Jaikaransingh V, MacConmara MP, Parekh JR, Levea SL, Ariyamuthu VK, Zhang S, Gao A, Ayvaci MU, Sandikci B, Rajora N, Ahmed V, Lu CY, Mohan S, Vazquez MA Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2016 Jun
- Living Kidney Transplantation: A Review of Donor Evaluation, Risks and Outcome.
  Okoye O.C. and Rajora N. Tropical Journal of Nephrology 2016 Vol. 11, No. 1: 17-30
- Characteristics and Outcomes of Renal Transplant Recipients with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in the United States.
  Tanriover B, Lakhia R, Shen YM, Sandikci B, Saxena R, MacConmara M, Soyombo AA, Rajora N, Hardy MA Transplantation direct 2015 Nov 1 10
- Induction Therapies in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation on Tacrolimus and Mycophenolate With or Without Steroid Maintenance.
  Tanriover B, Zhang S, MacConmara M, Gao A, Sandikci B, Ayvaci MU, Mete M, Tsapepas D, Rajora N, Mohan P, Lakhia R, Lu CY, Vazquez M Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2015 Jun 10 6 1041-9
- Frequency, Patterns and Outcome of Lupus nephritis in a Southern Nigerian Tertiary Hospital
  Okoye OC, John R, Benson A, Rajora N 2015 5 (1): 70-75
- A Case of Alport Syndrome with Posttransplant Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Disease despite Negative Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Antibodies by EIA Treated with Plasmapheresis and Intravenous Immunoglobulin.
  Armstead SI, Hellmark T, Wieslander J, Zhou XJ, Saxena R, Rajora N Case reports in transplantation 2013 2013 164016
- alpha-MSH and its receptors in regulation of tumor necrosis factor-alpha production by human monocyte/macrophages.
  Taherzadeh S, Sharma S, Chhajlani V, Gantz I, Rajora N, Demitri MT, Kelly L, Zhao H, Ichiyama T, Catania A, Lipton JM The American journal of physiology 1999 May 276 5 Pt 2 R1289-94
- alpha-MSH modulates local and circulating tumor necrosis factor-alpha in experimental brain inflammation.
  Rajora N, Boccoli G, Burns D, Sharma S, Catania AP, Lipton JM The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1997 Mar 17 6 2181-6
- alpha-MSH modulates experimental inflammatory bowel disease.
  Rajora N, Boccoli G, Catania A, Lipton JM Peptides 1997 18 3 381-5
- alpha-MSH production, receptors, and influence on neopterin in a human monocyte/macrophage cell line.
  Rajora N, Ceriani G, Catania A, Star RA, Murphy MT, Lipton JM Journal of leukocyte biology 1996 Feb 59 2 248-53
- Evidence of autocrine modulation of macrophage nitric oxide synthase by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.
  Star RA, Rajora N, Huang J, Stock RC, Catania A, Lipton JM Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1995 Aug 92 17 8016-20

Clinical Focus

Kidney Disease (Nephrology)

Nilum Rajora, M.D.

Biography

Education & Training

Books & Publications

Clinical Focus

Links

Kidney & Liver Disease Clinic - Hepatology (Liver)