Karthik M. Ranganna, MD MBA FASN FACHE
Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
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About me

  • Director, Kidney Transplant Satellite Program
  • Professor of Clinical Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Mysore Medical College
  • Residency: Allegheny University
  • Residency: Medical College of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Ranganna is a Penn Medicine physician. In New Jersey, providers are affiliated with Penn Medicine through Clinical Health Care Associates of New Jersey or Princeton Healthcare Affiliated Physicians, PC.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Puttarajappa CM, Urbanski M, Fallahzadeh MK, Budhiraja P, Balaraman V, Butsch WS, Morford H, Anand PM, Woodside KJ, Orandi BJ; co-authors Practices in the management of kidney transplant candidates and recipients with obesity: A survey of United States transplant programs , American journal of transplantation: official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 25(10): 2025,2194-2205


Nambiar P, Liang T, Labo N, Hand J, Blumberg EA, Rana MM, Florman S, Haydel B, Morris MI, Schaenman J, Rodrigues MMS, Werbel WA, Bowring MG, Friedman-Moraco RJ, Stock P, Stosor V, Mehta S, Gilbert AJ, Elias N, Mehta SA, Small CB, Haidar G, Malinis M, Pereira MR, Aslam S, Wojciechowski D, La Hoz R, Santos CAQ, Apewokin S, Castillo-Lugo JA, Ranganna K, Morsheimer M, Massie A, Segev DL, Miley W, Marshall V, Whitby D, Tobian AAA, Durand CM. Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Risk and Disease in Kidney Donors and Transplant Recipients with HIV in the United States , Clinical Infectious Disease: 2025


Elizabeth C. Arant MD, Thibaut Davy-Mendez PhD, Tao Liang MSPH, Moreno Rodrigues PhD, Cynthia L. Gay MD, Meenakshi M. Rana MD, Rachel Friedman-Moraco MD, Alexander Gilbert MD, Peter Stock MD, Sapna A. Mehta MD, Shikha Mehta MD, Valentina Stosor MD, Marcus R. Pereira MD MPH, Michele I. Morris MD, Jonathan Hand MD, Saima Aslam MD MS, Maricar Malinis MD, Ghady Haidar MD, Catherine B. Small MD, Carlos A. Q. Santos MD MPHS, Joanna Schaenman MD PhD, John W. Baddley MD, David Wojciechowski DO, Emily A. Blumberg MD, Karthik Ranganna MD, Oluwafisayo Adebiyi MD, Nahel Elias MD, Jose A. Castillo-Lugo MD, Emmanouil Giorgakis MD, Senu Apewokin MD, Megan Morsheimer MD MPH, Christian van Delden MD, Oriol Manuel MD, Nicolas J. Mueller MD, Dionysios Neofyotos MD, Aaron A.R. Tobian MD PhD, Allan Massie PhD, Dorry L. Segev MD PhD, William Werbel MD PhD, Christine M. Durand MD Infections after kidney transplantation from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV , Clinical Infectious Disease : 2025


Durand CM, Massie A, Florman S, Liang T, Rana MM, Friedman-Moraco R, Gilbert A, Stock P, Mehta SA, Mehta S, Stosor V, Pereira MR, Morris MI, Hand J, Aslam S, Malinis M, Haidar G, Small CB, Santos CAQ, Schaenman J, Baddley J, Wojciechowski D, Blumberg EA, Ranganna K, Adebiyi O, Elias N, Castillo-Lugo JA, Giorgakis E, Apewokin S, Brown D, Ostrander D, Eby Y, Desai N, Naqvi F, Bagnasco S, Watson N, Brittain E, Odim J, Redd AD, Tobian AAR, Segev DL; HOPE in Action Investigators. Safety of Kidney Transplantation from Donors with HIV , The New England journal of medicine, 391(15): 2024,1390-1401


Asheen Zariat, Yuvaram Reddy, Brittany Music, Belinda, Paganafanador, William Maixner, Unini Odama, Francesca, Tentori, Karthik Ranganna. 1University of Pennsylvania SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED PATIENTS – A DIALYSIS ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH EQUITY PILOT , American Journal of Kidney Disease, Volume 83(4): 2024


Benner SE, Eby Y, Zhu X, Fernandez RE, Patel EU, Ruff JE, Habtehyimer F, Schmidt HA, Kirby CS, Hussain S, Ostrander D, Desai NM, Florman S, Rana MM, Friedman-Moraco R, Pereira MR, Mehta S, Stock P, Gilbert A, Morris MI, Stosor V, Mehta SA, Small CB, Ranganna K, Santos CA, Aslam S, Husson J, Malinis M, Elias N, Blumberg EA, Doby BL, Massie AB, Smith ML, Odim J, Quinn TC, Laird GM, Siliciano RF, Segev DL, Redd AD, Durand CM, Tobian AA. The effect of induction immunosuppression for kidney transplant on the latent HIV reservoir , Journal of Clinical Investigation: 2022


Mejia CD, Malat GE, Boyle SM, Ranganna K, Lee DH. Experience with a six-month regimen of Pneumocystis pneumonia prophylaxis in 122 HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients , Transplant infectious disease: an official journal of the Transplantation Society, 23(3 ): 2021


Lee DH, Malat G, Boyle SM, Talluri S, Bias TE, Harhay MN, Ranganna K, Doyle A. Safety and Efficacy of Universal Postoperative Decolonization for Kidney Transplant Recipients , Experimental and clinical transplantation: official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation, 18(2): 2020,153-156


Boyle SM, Fehr K, Deering C, Raza A, Harhay MN, Malat G, Ranganna K, Lee DH. Barriers to kidney transplant evaluation in HIV-positive patients with advanced kidney disease: A single-center study , Transplant infectious disease: an official journal of the Transplantation Society. , 22(2): 2020


Crow LD, Jambusaria-Pahlajani A, Chung CL, Baran DA, Lowenstein SE, Abdelmalek M, Ahmed RL, Anadkat MJ, Arcasoy SM, Berg D, Bibee KP, Billingsley E, Black WH, Blalock TW, Bleicher M, Brennan DC, Brodland DG, Brown MR, Carroll BT, Carucci JA, Chang TW, Chaux G, Cusack CA, Dilling DF, Doyle A, Emtiazjoo AM, Ferguson NH, Fosko SW, Fox MC, Goral S, Gray AL, Griffin JR, Hachem RR, Hall SA, Hanlon AM, Hayes D Jr, Hickey GW, Holtz J, Hopkins RS, Hu J, Huang CC, Brian Jiang SI, Kapnadak SG, Kraus ES, Lease ED, Leca N, Lee JC, Leitenberger JJ, Lim MA, Longo MI, Malik SM, Mallea JM, Menter A, Myers SA, Neuburg M, Nijhawan RI, Norman DJ, Otley CC, Paek SY, Parulekar AD, Patel MJ, Patel VA, Patton TJ, Pugliano-Mauro M, Ranganna K, Ravichandran AK, Redenius R, Roll GR, Samie FH, Shin T, Singer JP, Singh P, Soon SL, Soriano T, Squires R, Stasko T, Stein JA, Taler SJ, Terrault NA, Thomas CP, Tokman S, Tomic R, Twigg AR, Wigger MA, Zeitouni NC, Arron ST. Initial skin cancer screening for solid organ transplant recipients in the United States: Delphi method development of expert consensus guidelines , Transplant international: official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 32(12): 2019,1268-1276


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