Kirk Nicholas Campbell, MD
Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension Perelman
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Chief, Division of Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension
- C. Mahlon Kline Professor
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
- Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Fellowship: Mount Sinai Medical Center
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- 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, 2006
- American Society of Nephrology Board Review Course and Update Faculty, National
- American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week Program Committee, National
- Council of Faculty and Academic Societies, Association of American Medical Colleges, National
- Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP), National
- Membership and Accreditation Committee of the International Society of Glomerular Disease, International
- National Kidney Foundation, National
- National Kidney Foundation of Greater New York, Local
- Nephcure Foundation, National
- New York Society of Nephrology, Local
- NIH/NIDDK DDK-D, National
- NIH/NIDDK Strategic Working Group – subgroup on biological pathways and contributors to health and disease, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Ojo AO, Adu D, Bramham K, Freedman BI, Gbadegesin RA, Ilori TO, Jefferson N, Olabisi OA, Susztak K, Young BA, Cheung M, King JM, Grams ME, Jadoul M, Ulasi II; Conference Participants. APOL1 kidney disease: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference , Kidney Int: 2025
He X, Ballestas ER, Zeng L, Zhang T, McEvoy CM, Misra PS, Ki V, Apostol A, Wong JS, Meliambro K, Ray J, De Cos M, Melica ME, Romagnani P, Feng Y, Krizova A, How I, Rosales IA, Colvin RB, He JC, Campbell KN, Yuen DA. Podocyte YAP and TAZ hyperactivation drives glomerular epithelial proliferative diseases in mice and humans , Sci Transl Med, 17: 2025,eadq3852
Sridhar A, Pivert K, Mohottige D, Campbell KN, Farouk SS. Why Not Transplant Nephrology? A Survey of US Nephrology Fellows , Kidney Med, 7: 2025,101003
Selbach F, Maggiore U, Gentile M, Meliambro K, Campbell KN, Tucholski J, Julian BA, Placzek WJ, Alibrandi S, Kim-Schulze S, Lanau Martínez M, Fernandez-Lorente ML, Manrique J, Cravedi P. Serum Cytokine Profile in IgA Nephropathy , Kidney Med, 7: 2025,100940
Siegerist F, Campbell KN, Endlich N. A new era in nephrology: the role of super-resolution microscopy in research, medical diagnostic, and drug discovery , Kidney Int: 2025
Mon-Wei Yu S, Choi JY, Kady J, De Cos M, Wong JS, King E, Younis N, Al Rahy N, Al Chaar S, Djebli H, Eskandari S, Samuel S, Merhej T, Sukumar N, Lin JR, Chen JY, Xu Y, Santagata S, Weins A, Yeung M, Cravedi P, Campbell KN, Lemos D, Bonventre JV, Brehm MA, Azzi J. Transplantation of human kidney organoids elicited a robust allogeneic response in a humanized mouse model , Kidney Int: 2025
Gentile M, Goerlich N, Lo IJ, Olson NE, McConnell M, Pospiech J, Bohnenpoll T, Skroblin P, Radresa O, Andag U, Campbell KN, Meliambro K, Sanchez-Russo L, Verlato A, Fiaccadori E, Kim-Schulze S, Lanau M, Fernandez-Lorente ML, Fribourg M, Manrique J, Cravedi P. Patients With Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy Show Abnormal Frequencies of B Cell Subsets, Unconventional T Cells, and High Levels of Galactose-Deficient IgA1-Coated Gut Bacteria , Kidney Int Rep, 10: 2024,475-488
Meliambro K, He JC, Campbell KN. Podocyte-targeted therapies - progress and future directions , Nat Rev Nephrol, 20(10): 2024,643-658
Cantarelli C, Campbell KN, Cravedi P. Parietal epithelial cells in glomerulosclerosis: a new piece in the puzzle? , J Nephrol: 2024
Veličković D, Shapiro JP, Parikh SV, Rovin B, Toto RD, Vazquez MA, Poggio ED, O'Toole JF, Sedor JR, Alexandrov T, Jain S, Bitzer M, Hodgin J, Veličković M, Sharma K, Anderton CR; Kidney Precision Medicine Project. Protein N -Glycans in Healthy and Sclerotic Glomeruli in Diabetic Kidney Disease , J Am Soc Nephrol, 35: 2024,1198-1207