- Kidney disease and cancer
Aisha Shaikh, MD
About me
- Director of Onconephrology
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension)
My education and training
- Medical School: Dow Medical College
- Residency: University of Texas Medical Branch
- Fellowship: Mayo Clinic
Spoken languages
Insurance accepted
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Nephrology, 2008
- Internal Medicine, 2005
- American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN), National
- American Society of Nephrology (ASN), National
- American Society of OncoNephrology (ASON), National
- International Society of Amyloidosis (ISA), International
- National Kidney Foundation (NKF), National
- NephJC Steering Committee, X or Twitter-based Nephrology Journal Club (X or Twitter handle: @NephJC, #NephJC), National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Khan Z, Dadhania D, Brailovski E, Landau H, Shaikh A. Kidney Transplantation Post-Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR T) Therapy in Multiple Myeloma , Am J Kidney Dis: 2026
Dave P, Yau A, Hakimi A, Gupta M, Atallah W, Small AC, Gupta K, Scherr DS, Goldfarb DS, Shaikh A Urolithiasis in Patients with Cancer , Nat Rev Urol: 2026
Pak W, Edgar A Jaimes E, Knezevic A, Agins J, Gounder M, Jhaveri K, Shaikh A. Gamma-secretase inhibitor-associated hypophosphatemia in patients with desmoid tumor , Journal of Onco-Nephrology: 2025
Won A, Hanna P, Hassanein M, Shaikh A. Cryoglobulinemic Glomerulonephritis , StatPearls Publishing: 2025
Abramson M, Shaikh A. Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy , Adv Kidney Dis Health, 31(4): 2024,326-333
Pak WLW, Brumwell NA, Kabel CC, Gutgarts V, Jaffer Sathick I, Mailankody S, Lesokhin AM, Landau HJ, Shaikh A Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy Use in Patients with Multiple Myeloma and Kidney Failure on Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Report of 2 Cases , Kidney Medicine, 6(8)(100856): 2024
Glezerman I, Salvatore S, Tap W, Kelly C, Brauer Ornelas CM, Shaikh A. Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin Causes Kidney-limited Thrombotic Microangiopathy , Am J Kidney Dis, 83(4): 2024,549-553
Shaikh A. Immunotherapies and Renal Injury , Curr Opin Toxicol, 31: 2022
Shaikh A, Zeldis E, Campbell KN, Chan L. Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Viral RNA Shedding and IgG Antibody Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Patients on Hemodialysis , Clin J Am Soc Nephrol, 16(2): 2021,290-292
Shaikh A, Habermann TM, Fidler ME, Kumar S, Leung N. Acute renal failure secondary to severe type I cryoglobulinemia following rituximab therapy for Waldenström's macroglobulinemia , Clin Exp Nephrol, 12(4): 2008,:292-295