Lilian Saro-Nunez, MD

Dr. Saro-Nunez completed her internal medicine training at Rutgers University. A few years after completing her training in Nephrology at Weill Cornell Medical College, she returned to Rutgers as a faculty member. She serves as the clinic liaison for the Division of Nephrology. She actively participates in the recruitment of internal medicine residents and Nephrology fellows every year and the URIM (underrepresented in medicine) task force. She has served as a faculty mentor in the HEAL (Hypertension Education and Lifestyle Modification) program and is involved in community outreach for blood pressure screening. She greatly enjoys teaching and is fluent in English and Spanish.  

• Clinic liaison for the Division of Nephrology 

• Undergraduate: Rutgers University, 2006  

• Medical school: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 2011 

• Residency: Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, 2014 

• Nephrology Fellowship: Weill Cornell Medical College/ Memorial Sloan Kettering, 2016 

Fadem Kerr Academic Achievement Scholarship, 2009, 2010 

In clinic, Dr Saro-Nunez enjoys treating patients with a variety of kidney diseases as well as educating them in lifestyle changes to prevent progression of kidney disease.  

Dr. Saro-Nunez is mainly a clinical physician, but she recently participated as a sub-I in the TIGRIS trial at RWJUH, a multicenter randomized trial studying use of PMX cartridge in endotoxic septic shock.  

Unmask masked hypertension in patients with CKD”. A project in which several members of the Nephrology division participate, with the objective of diagnosing hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease by obtaining ambulatory blood pressure measurements. 

Saro-Nunez, Lilian; Aufderheide, Amrei; Baskharoum, Samuel; Perlman, Alan 

Utility of Cystatin C in the Setting of Urinoma; Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, Jul;48(4):496-500, 2018 

A Retrospective Analysis of Fluid Balance in Patients with AKI and Respiratory Failure due to COVID-19 

Sharma, Pranav; Bhagat, Amar; Madu, Chioma; Lebowitz, Jonathan; Saro-Nunez, Lilian; Khalil, Steve 

ASN Kidney Week, Orlando, Florida (Selected for Presentation) 

An Overlapping Case of Predominant Tubulointerstitial Lupus Nephritis and Ig4-Related Kidney Disease”  

Howowitz, Benjamin; Saro-Nunez, Lilian; Fyfe-Kirschner, Billie; Lebowitz, Jonathan 

ASN, Kidney Week, Orlando, Florida. Abstract: PUB226 

Rutgers RWJ Research Day, New Brunswick, New Jersey 

Cardiac Tamponade and Acute Pulmonary Edema due to Lupus Myopericarditis and Lupus Nephritis

Requiring Urgent Pericardiocentesis and Hemodialysis: A Rare Malignant Presentation of Lupus Flare up 

Sharma, Pranav; Bhagat, Amar; Madu, Chioma; Khalil, Steve; Saro-Nunez, Lilian; Lebowitz, Jonathan 

Rutgers RWJ Research Day, New Brunswick, NJ  

Scleroderma Renal Crisis in a Patient with Paraneoplastic Syndrome 

Ahmed, Ayesha; Saro-Nunez, Lilian 

ASN Kidney Week, Washington DC (Selected for Presentation)