- Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine (Nephrology), Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
Dr. Dennis G. Moledina is an Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at Yale School of Medicine, where he also serves as Director of the Nephrology Research Fellowship Program, Vice Chief for Clinical and Translational Research in Nephrology, and Director of the Yale Kidney BioBank. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine with subspecialization in Nephrology and provides attending physician services at Yale-New Haven Hospital in both nephrology and internal medicine.
Dr. Moledina completed his clinical and postdoctoral fellowships in nephrology at Yale and earned his PhD in Investigative Medicine from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His independent research, funded by the NIH, focuses on developing diagnostic testing and tools for various subtypes of acute kidney injury, with a particular emphasis on acute interstitial nephritis. He also serves as a co-investigator in NIH-funded multicenter consortia, including the Kidney Precision Medicine Program (KPMP) and the Care of Outpatients with Acute Kidney Injury (COPE-AKI) study.
Dr. Moledina directs the Yale Kidney BioBank, a biorepository that has collected samples from over 1,400 participants with kidney biopsy-confirmed diagnoses since 2015. His work on lupus nephritis includes collaborative research on blood DNA methylation as a biomarker for histopathologic features of the disease.