Martha Pavlakis

Martha Pavlakis graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo before completing her residency at Tufts Medical Center. She did her renal and clinical investigation fellowships at Beth Israel Hospital before joining the faculty at Stanford Medical Center. She has been the Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at BIDMC since 1999. She takes the transplant education at BIDMC for renal fellows very seriously and provides both inpatient and clinic exposure throughout the year on both the inpatient Transplant (“Epstein-Trey”) service and outpatient clinics. She has directed the one-year AST transplant fellowship since 2001. She is active in the American Society of Transplantation where she serves as the immediate past chair of the Education Committee and active in a number of the Communities of Practice (COP) including the Women's Health COP, the Kidney Pancreas COP, the Live donor COP and the ID COP. She is also active in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and is incoming Chair of the UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee.

An Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS, Dr. Pavlakis is involved in a number of multi-center and investigator initiated studies. She is the site PI for a transplant tolerance trial, and a post transplant genomics monitoring trial. In addition, she works with renal fellows on a number of reviews of our center's data and UNOS data for publication. She has over 100 publications including peer reviewed articles, editorials, reviews, book chapters, and abstracts. Dr. Pavlakis is currently working on a review of the impact of removing the Black race variable from eGFR calculation on transplant listing at BIDMC, with Dr. Hoenig.

Clinical Interests

• Transplant Nephrology
• Islet Cell Transplantation
• Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation

Education

Medical School: SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine

Internship: Tufts Medical Center

Residency: Tufts Medical Center

Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center