Pascale Khairallah, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Early Career Award for Excellence in Patient Care, Baylor College of Medicine, 2022
• Faculty Teaching Award, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2022
• Unsung Hero Award, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2022
• Faculty Teaching Award, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2021
• Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Nephrology, 2020
• Fellow of the National Kidney Foundation, National Kidney Foundation, 2020

Education & Training

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• BS Biology American University of Beirut
• MD Medicine American University of Beirut
• MS Clinical Scientist Training Program Baylor College of Medicine
• Kidney Transplant Columbia University Medical Center
• Nephrology Columbia University Medical Center
• Internal Medicine Duke University Medical Center

Publications (47)

Top publication keywords:
Kidney Failure, ChronicKidney TransplantationVitamin KBone RemodelingDiabetes Insipidus, NephrogenicCalcitriolGlomerulonephritisUremiaAcid-Base EquilibriumOsteoporosisKidney DiseasesBone Density Conservation AgentsHemolytic-Uremic SyndromeRenal Insufficiency, ChronicChronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder

• Calcitriol supplementation after kidney transplantation: results of a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
  Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2025 Khairallah P, Cortez NE, McMahon DJ, Sammons S, Agarwal S, Crew RJ, Cohen DJ, Dube GK, Mohan S, Chang JH, Morris HK, Fernandez HE, Aponte MA, Adebayo AO, Aghi A, Zaninotto M, Plebani M, Tripepi G, …
• Agents to treat osteoporosis in chronic kidney disease.
  Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension 2025 Khairallah P
• Association between Parathyroid Hormone Concentration and Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Older Persons with Kidney Failure Initiating Dialysis.
  American journal of nephrology 2025 Khairallah P, Liu S, Montez-Rath ME, Erickson KF, Chang TI, Winkelmayer WC
• Impact of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and Rituximab for Prevention of Idiopathic Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Recurrence Post-Kidney Transplantation.
  Transplantation direct 2025 Yun AN, Rogers AW, Krisl JC, Kagan A, Adrogue HE, Khan AJ, Khairallah P, Yi SG, Hobeika MJ, Gaber L, Truong L, Podder H, Gaber AO, Knight RJ
• Oral Anticoagulant Initiation in Patients With Kidney Failure on Hemodialysis Newly Diagnosed With Atrial Fibrillation (2007-2020): An Observational Study of Trends and Disparities.
  Kidney medicine 2024 Winkelmayer WC, Hu A, Khairallah P, Airy M, Erickson KF, Chang TI, Niu J

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• Trends in Kidney Allograft Failure Among First-Time Transplant Recipients in the United States.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2024 Khairallah P, Lorenz EC, Waterman A, Aggarwal N, Pai A, Winkelmayer WC, Niu J
• Managing Osteoporosis in Dialysis-A Medical Catch-22.
  JAMA 2024 Khairallah P, Nickolas TL
• Dialysis Modality, Transplant Characteristics, and Incident Atrial Fibrillation After Kidney Transplant: An Observational Study Using USRDS Data.
  Kidney medicine 2023 Garcia LP, Liu S, Lenihan CR, Montez-Rath ME, Chang TI, Winkelmayer WC, Khairallah P
• Changes in Bone Quality after Treatment with Etelcalcetide.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2023 Khairallah P, Cherasard J, Sung J, Agarwal S, Aponte MA, Bucovsky M, Fusaro M, Silberzweig J, Frumkin GN, El Hachem K, Schulman L, McMahon D, Allen MR, Metzger CE, Surowiec RK, Wallace J, Nickolas TL
• Cellular Senescence and Frailty in Transplantation.
  Current transplantation reports 2023 Lorenz EC, Hickson LJ, Khairallah P, Najafi B, Kennedy CC
• The role of HLA antigens in recurrent primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
  Frontiers in immunology 2023 Batal I, Khairallah P, Weins A, Andeen NK, Stokes MB
• Tocilizumab for the treatment of chronic antibody mediated rejection in kidney transplant recipients.
  Clinical transplantation 2022 Khairallah P, Robbins-Juarez S, Patel S, Shah V, Toma K, Fernandez H, Dube GK, King K, Mohan S, Husain SA, Morris H, Crew RJ
• Associations of Serum and Dialysate Potassium Concentrations With Incident Atrial Fibrillation in a Cohort Study of Older US Persons Initiating Hemodialysis for Kidney Failure.
  Kidney international reports 2022 Hu A, Liu S, Montez-Rath ME, Khairallah P, Niu J, Turakhia MP, Chang TI, Winkelmayer WC
• Effectiveness of Pharmacological Interventions for Treatment of Osteoporosis in Patients With CKD 3-5D: No Clear Choices.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2022 Khairallah P, Nickolas TL
• Glomerular Diseases of the Kidney Allograft: Toward a Precision Medicine Approach.
  Seminars in nephrology 2022 Zanoni F, Khairallah P, Kiryluk K, Batal I
• Bone and Mineral Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2021 Khairallah P, Nickolas TL
• Bisphosphonates in Kidney Disease-Safety First.
  Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2021 Khairallah P, Nickolas TL
• How and when to assess bone mineral density and bone quality in chronic kidney disease patients?
  Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2021 Khairallah P, Nickolas TL, Fusaro M
• The impact of COVID-19 on kidney transplantation and the kidney transplant recipient - One year into the pandemic.
  Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation 2021 Khairallah P, Aggarwal N, Awan AA, Vangala C, Airy M, Pan JS, Murthy BVR, Winkelmayer WC, Ramanathan V
• The Association Between Post-Kidney Transplant De Novo Glomerulonephritis and Alloimmunity.
  Kidney international reports 2021 Khairallah P, Kamal J, Crew RJ, Serban G, Vasilescu ER, Dube GK, Batal I
• High rate of renal recovery in survivors of COVID-19 associated acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy.
  PloS one 2020 Stevens JS, King KL, Robbins-Juarez SY, Khairallah P, Toma K, Alvarado Verduzco H, Daniel E, Douglas D, Moses AA, Peleg Y, Starakiewicz P, Li MT, Kim DW, Yu K, Qian L, Shah VH, O'Donnell MR, Cummings …
• A multi-center study on safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer patients with kidney transplant.
  Kidney international 2020 Murakami N, Mulvaney P, Danesh M, Abudayyeh A, Diab A, Abdel-Wahab N, Abdelrahim M, Khairallah P, Shirazian S, Kukla A, Owoyemi IO, Alhamad T, Husami S, Menon M, Santeusanio A, Blosser CD, Zuniga SC, …
• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Native Kidney Biopsy Complications.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2020 Poggio ED, McClelland RL, Blank KN, Hansen S, Bansal S, Bomback AS, Canetta PA, Khairallah P, Kiryluk K, Lecker SH, McMahon GM, Palevsky PM, Parikh S, Rosas SE, Tuttle K, Vazquez MA, Vijayan A, Rovin …
• The young, the uremic and the broken.
  Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2020 Khairallah P, Nickolas TL
• Nephrology and COVID-19.
  JAMA 2020 Winkelmayer WC, Khairallah P, Charytan DM
• Reversal of Donor Hepatitis C Virus-Related Mesangial Proliferative GN in a Kidney Transplant Recipient.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2020 Khairallah P, Kudose S, Morris HK, Ratner LE, Mohan S, Radhakrishnan J, Chang JH
• Hepatic pathology in patients dying of COVID-19: a series of 40 cases including clinical, histologic, and virologic data.
  Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc 2020 Lagana SM, Kudose S, Iuga AC, Lee MJ, Fazlollahi L, Remotti HE, Del Portillo A, De Michele S, de Gonzalez AK, Saqi A, Khairallah P, Chong AM, Park H, Uhlemann AC, Lefkowitch JH, Verna EC
• Cell-Free DNA: Proceed, but with Caution.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2020 Crew RJ, Khairallah P, Husain SA
• Postmortem Kidney Pathology Findings in Patients with COVID-19.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2020 Santoriello D, Khairallah P, Bomback AS, Xu K, Kudose S, Batal I, Barasch J, Radhakrishnan J, D'Agati V, Markowitz G
• Clinicopathologic Assessment of Monoclonal Immunoglobulin-associated Renal Disease in the Kidney Allograft: A Retrospective Study and Review of the Literature.
  Transplantation 2020 Kamal J, Khairallah P, Crew RJ, Ye X, Swanson SJ, Kudose S, Park DC, Appel GB, Markowitz GS, D'Agati VD, Batal I
• Overweight-obesity is associated with decreased vitamin K2 levels in hemodialysis patients.
  Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2020 Ravera M, Nickolas T, Plebani M, Iervasi G, Aghi A, Khairallah P, Gallieni M, Mereu MC, Giannini S, Sella S, Zaninotto M, Paoletti E, Bussalino E, Di Lullo L, Bellasi A, Cosmai L, Foramitti M, …
• Association of HLA Typing and Alloimmunity With Posttransplantation Membranous Nephropathy: A Multicenter Case Series.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2020 Batal I, Vasilescu ER, Dadhania DM, Adel AA, Husain SA, Avasare R, Serban G, Santoriello D, Khairallah P, Patel A, Moritz MJ, Latulippe E, Riopel J, Khallout K, Swanson SJ, Bomback AS, Mohan S, Ratner…
• Correction to: Vitamin K effects in human health: new insights beyond bone and cardiovascular health.
  Journal of nephrology 2020 Fusaro M, Gallieni M, Porta C, Nickolas TL, Khairallah P
• Vitamin K effects in human health: new insights beyond bone and cardiovascular health.
  Journal of nephrology 2019 Fusaro M, Gallieni M, Porta C, Nickolas TL, Khairallah P
• A Case of Iatrogenic Dehydration.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 Khairallah P, Canetta PA
• The AJKD Editorial Internship: Insights From the Inaugural Class of Editorial Interns.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 Gelfand SL, Khairallah P, Nair D, Whelan AM
• Predictors of Net Acid Excretion in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 Brown L, Luciano A, Pendergast J, Khairallah P, Anderson CAM, Sondheimer J, Hamm LL, Ricardo AC, Rao P, Rahman M, Miller ER, Sha D, Xie D, Feldman HI, Asplin J, Wolf M, Scialla JJ, CRIC Study …
• Updates in CKD-Associated Osteoporosis.
  Current osteoporosis reports 2018 Khairallah P, Nickolas TL
• Management of Osteoporosis in CKD.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2018 Khairallah P, Nickolas TL
• Acid Load and Phosphorus Homeostasis in CKD.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2017 Khairallah P, Isakova T, Asplin J, Hamm L, Dobre M, Rahman M, Sharma K, Leonard M, Miller E, Jaar B, Brecklin C, Yang W, Wang X, Feldman H, Wolf M, Scialla JJ, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC…
• Role of Acid-Base Homeostasis in Diabetic Kidney Disease.
  Current diabetes reports 2017 Khairallah P, Scialla JJ
• Structural and functional consequences of minoxidil-induced cardiac hypertrophy.
  The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 1994 Moravec CS, Ruhe T, Cifani JR, Milovanovic M, Khairallah PA
• Cyclic AMP in myocytes isolated from hypertrophied rat hearts.
  Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology 1991 Hilal-Dandan R, Khairallah PA
• Portal-like microcirculation in rat sympathetic ganglia.
  Acta anatomica 1990 Mekhail NA, Estafanous FG, Vitullo JC, Khairallah PA
• Cocaine-induced small vessel spasm in isolated rat hearts.
  The American journal of pathology 1989 Vitullo JC, Karam R, Mekhail N, Wicker P, Engelmann GL, Khairallah PA
• Insulin-like growth factors and neonatal cardiomyocyte development: ventricular gene expression and membrane receptor variations in normotensive and hypertensive rats.
  Molecular and cellular endocrinology 1989 Engelmann GL, Boehm KD, Haskell JF, Khairallah PA, Ilan J
• Measurement of immunoreactive angiotensin peptides in rat tissues: some pitfalls in angiotensin II analysis.
  Analytical biochemistry 1988 De Silva PE, Husain A, Smeby RR, Khairallah PA