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Mohammed A. Rafey

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

Mohammed A. Rafey is a clinical nephrologist who specializes in hypertension. In addition to caring for patients with kidney disease, he has a particular interest in evaluating and managing patients with complex and difficult-to-control hypertension that requires advanced state-of-the-art care and management. He has served as a co-investigator for five trials on kidney disease and hypertension conducted by the National Institutes of Health.

He was inducted as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Society of Hypertension. He has published more than 40 research papers in such journals as Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Archives of Internal Medicine, and the American Journal of Hypertension.

Rafey earned an MS in clinical research from New York University and an MBBS in medicine and surgery from Bangalore University in India. He completed residency training in internal medicine, as well as fellowships in nephrology and hypertension, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York, completing the latter fellowship at the school’s Cardiovascular Research Institute.

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