Epernicus: Ishir Bhan, M.D., M.P.H.

Ishir Bhan, M.D., M.P.H.

Position:
Attending Physician

Nephrology

Laboratory of Computer Science

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)
Advisor:
Ravi I Thadhani
Degrees:

M.P.H., Clinical Effectiveness, Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA)

M.D., Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)

A.B., Biology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Clinical Training:

Fellowship, Nephrology, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Joint Nephrology Fellowship Program

Residency, Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Internship, Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Past Advisors:

Stuart A Lipton (as Visiting Student)
Research:
Biology of infectious risk in hemodialysis

I study the biology of infectious disease in patients on hemodialysis. My current focus is on hCAP18, an antimicrobial peptide regulated by vitamin D.
Other Experience:
2005 Program in Clinical Effectiveness, Harvard School of PUblic Health

Communities:

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Ishir Bhan's Publications (12)

Klotho Variants and Chronic Hemodialysis Mortality.
Friedman DJ, Afkarian M, Tamez H, Bhan I, Isakova T, Wolf M, Ankers E, Ye J, Tonelli M, Zoccali C, Kuro-O M, Moe O, Karumanchi SA, Thadhani R

Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. 2009 May 6
Plasma gelsolin and circulating actin correlate with hemodialysis mortality.
Lee PS, Sampath K, Karumanchi SA, Tamez H, Bhan I, Isakova T, Gutierrez OM, Wolf M, Chang Y, Stossel TP, Thadhani R

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 2009 May;20(5):1140-8
Effect of an electronic medication reconciliation application and process redesign on potential adverse drug events: a cluster-randomized trial.
Schnipper JL, Hamann C, Ndumele CD, Liang CL, Carty MG, Karson AS, Bhan I, Coley CM, Poon E, Turchin A, Labonville SA, Diedrichsen EK, Lipsitz S, Broverman CA, McCarthy P, Gandhi TK

Archives of internal medicine. 2009 Apr 27;169(8):771-80
Low Plasma Level of Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptide (hCAP18) Predicts Increased Infectious Disease Mortality in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis.
Gombart AF, Bhan I, Borregaard N, Tamez H, Camargo Jr CA, Koeffler HP, Thadhani R

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2009 Jan 9
Vitamin d therapy for chronic kidney disease.
Bhan I, Thadhani R

Seminars in nephrology. 2009 Jan;29(1):85-93
Classifying and Predicting Errors of Inpatient Medication Reconciliation.
Pippins JR, Gandhi TK, Hamann C, Ndumele CD, Labonville SA, Diedrichsen EK, Carty MG, Karson AS, Bhan I, Coley CM, Liang CL, Turchin A, McCarthy PC, Schnipper JL

Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine. 2008 Jun 19
N-terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) Concentrations in Hemodialysis Patients: Prognostic Value of Baseline and Follow-up Measurements.
Gutiérrez OM, Tamez H, Bhan I, Zazra J, Tonelli M, Wolf M, Januzzi JL, Chang Y, Thadhani R

Clinical chemistry. 2008 Jun 6
Post-transplant hypophosphatemia: Tertiary 'Hyper-Phosphatoninism'?
Bhan I, Shah A, Holmes J, Isakova T, Gutierrez O, Burnett SA, Jüppner H, Wolf M

Kidney international. 2006 Oct;70(8):1486-94
An integrated platform for portable clinical data, collaboration, and interactive education.
Bhan I, Blesius C, Chueh H

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium. 2006:854
Design and implementation of an application and associated services to support interdisciplinary medication reconciliation efforts at an integrated healthcare delivery network.
Poon EG, Blumenfeld B, Hamann C, Turchin A, Graydon-Baker E, McCarthy PC, Poikonen J, Mar P, Schnipper JL, Hallisey RK, Smith S, McCormack C, Paterno M, Coley CM, Karson A, Chueh HC, Van Putten C, Millar SG, Clapp M, Bhan I, Meyer GS, Gandhi TK, Broverman CA

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2006 Nov-Dec;13(6):581-92
Isolation of Cardiobacterium hominis from the peritoneal fluid of a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
Bhan I, Java Chen E, Bazari H

Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases. 2006;38(4):301-3
Nitric oxide (NO.) stabilizes whereas nitrosonium (NO+) enhances filopodial outgrowth by rat retinal ganglion cells in vitro.
Cheung WS, Bhan I, Lipton SA

Brain research. 2000 Jun 16;868(1):1-13

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Ishir Bhan, M.D., M.P.H.

Attending Physician

Biology of infectious risk in hemodialysis

Ishir Bhan's Genealogy

Ishir Bhan's Publications (12)

Websites