Stewart Lecker

Stewart Lecker is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School. He studied chemistry at Cal Berkeley and graduated from UCLA School of Medicine with a combined MD/PhD in 1992. He completed his internal medicine residency at UCLA before relocating to Beth Israel Hospital for his nephrology training in 1995. He is the current Director of the ACGME-accredited Nephrology Fellowship Program at BIDMC and has served in this role since 2005. He is a leader in the nephrology education community serving on a number of committees and subcommittees at the American Society of Nephrology. He has won numerous teaching awards including the prestigious S. Robert Stone award in 2019. His research has centered around nutrition in chronic and end-stage kidney disease, specifically on the molecular mechanisms of muscle wasting in these settings. He is passionate about physiology education and nephrology curriculum development, with roles as a Core Renal Faculty at Harvard Medical School and Module Leader at the ASN TREKS course at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratories in Maine, in addition to his work with our nephrology fellows and internal medicine trainees.

Clinical Interests

• General Nephrology
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Glomerular Disease
• Nephrolithiasis (Stone Disease)

Education

Graduate: University of California Los Angeles

Medical School: University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine (UCLA)

Internship/Residency: University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center

Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center