Mihran Naljayan, MD, serves at the Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Transformation, Home and Pediatrics. In this role, he oversees clinical hospitalization reduction efforts for ESKD patients at DaVita as well as clinical quality and safety for all patients treating at Home as well as pediatrics patients. In this role, he has driven transformative initiatives across home therapies by reducing modality loss, launching Home for acute kidney injury (AKI) patients and expanding the Physician Support Network which works directly with physician practices to provide education and to help support home modality growth and clinical outcomes initiatives to improve access to home therapies to patients across the US.
Dr. Naljayan graduated with his MD from LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport, LA. He subsequently completed internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Hypertension. After fellowship, he joined the faculty at LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Medicine, and he has served as the co-director of the second-year medical student renal course, program director for the nephrology fellowship and interim section chief of nephrology and hypertension. He continues to practice at LSU in New Orleans. He served on the board of the National Kidney Foundation of Louisiana and is the Co-Chair of the PDOPPS Advisory Committee. He has presented regionally, nationally and internationally at ASN, ADC, NKF and ISPD meetings. His clinical and research interests include nephrology education, urgent start PD, prescription optimization for home dialysis and health equity in Home Modalities.