Dennis G. Moledina, MD, PhD, FASN

Dr. Dennis Moledina is the Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Chief of Nephrology Services at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

Dr. Moledina completed medical school at MP Shah Government Medical College in India, an Internal Medicine residency at NYU Long Island, and a Nephrology clinical and research Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. He also obtained a PhD in Investigative Medicine from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining Rutgers, he was an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, where he also served as Vice Chief of Clinical and Translational Research and as Director of the Nephrology Research Fellowship.

Dr. Moledina is a physician-scientist with an active NIH-funded research program and a world-renowned expert on acute interstitial nephritis. He was the first to demonstrate the diagnostic potential of urine biomarkers for this disease and is working to bring these biomarkers to the clinical bedside. He also created and validated an electronic health record-based diagnostic model for acute interstitial nephritis, now part of the MDCalc suite of calculators. Most recently, he has used tissue spatial transcriptomics and urine proteomics to evaluate mechanisms underlying this disease to guide newer therapies. He also established and ran the Yale Kidney BioBank that has recruited over 2,000 participants with various kidney biopsy-confirmed diagnoses.

PRESENT TITLE:

Chief and Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine
Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ

EDUCATION:

M.P. Shah Medical College
Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
MD 08/2002 – 02/2009

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
New Haven, CT
PhD (Investigative Medicine) 07/2015 – 12/2018

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING:

NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY
Internal Medicine Residency
07/2010 – 06/2013

Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Nephrology Fellowship
06/2013 – 06/2015

Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Nephrology Research Fellowship
07/2015 – 06/2018

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Associate Professor and Division Chief (with tenure)
9/2026- Present

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP:

American Society of Nephrology
Fellow (FASN)
2021 – Present

National Kidney Foundation
Fellow (FNKF)
2025 – Present

SERVICE ON NATIONAL GRANT REVIEW PANELS AND STUDY SECTIONS,

Review Panel Member, Patterson Mentored Research Review Committee 2023-2024
Review Panel Member, NIH Special Emphasis Panel: Topics in Nephrology 2024
Co-Chair, 2026 Patterson Mentored Research Review Committee 2025

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Kidney360, American Society of Nephrology, Editorial Board Member, 2019 – 2023
ASN Journals Editorial Board, 2024 – 2026
Evidence to Action: Official Journal of MDCalc, Associate Editor, 2025 – 2026
Kidney360 Journal, Associate Editor, 2026 – Present