Raymond Hsu, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Within nephrology, he is the Director of the Glomerular Disease program at UCSF Health, with expertise in treating patients with (but not limited to): minimal change disease, FSGS, membranous nephropathy, IgA nephropathy, lupus nephritis, ANCA-mediated vasculitis, renal thrombotic micro-angiopathies, pregnancy-associated kidney diseases, and renal complications of cancer and cancer therapies (onco-nephrology). He is directly involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with glomerular and other forms of chronic and acute kidney diseases. He additionally maintains a panel of patients with end-stage kidney disease requiring chronic renal replacement therapy including in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis.

Dr. Hsu's research has focused on the epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney injury (AKI) using large administrative, clinical, and cohort datasets. He is also involved in coordination of several multi-center prospective observational studies to help elucidate the natural history of CKD and various glomerular disorders.

Dr. Hsu is active in the education of both trainees and practicing physicians, and lectures frequently at national and international conferences.

• Adding CKD to the Alphabet Soup: A Snapshot of Kidney Health in the LGBTQ+ Population.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2023 Rolón L, Hsu RK
• In IgA nephropathy, oral methylprednisolone reduced adverse kidney outcomes but increased adverse events.
  Annals of internal medicine 2022 Hsu CY, Hsu RK
• Incidence and Risk Factors for Dialysis Reinitiation among Patients with a History of Dialysis Dependency.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2022 Ku E, Hsu RK, McCulloch CE, Lo L, Copeland T, Siyahian S, Grimes B, Johansen KL
• Kidney Dysfunction After Acute Heart Failure: Is Acute Kidney Disease the New Acute Kidney Injury?
  Kidney international reports 2021 Kwong YD, Liu KD, Hsu RK
• Acute kidney injury in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
  Journal for immunotherapy of cancer 2021 Gupta S, Short SAP, Sise ME, Prosek JM, Madhavan SM, Soler MJ, Ostermann M, Herrmann SM, Abudayyeh A, Anand S, Glezerman I, Motwani SS, Murakami N, Wanchoo R, Ortiz-Melo DI, Rashidi A, Sprangers B, …
• Achieved blood pressure post-acute kidney injury and risk of adverse outcomes after AKI: A prospective parallel cohort study.
  BMC nephrology 2021 McCoy I, Brar S, Liu KD, Go AS, Hsu RK, Chinchilli VM, Coca SG, Garg AX, Himmelfarb J, Ikizler TA, Kaufman J, Kimmel PL, Lewis JB, Parikh CR, Siew ED, Ware LB, Zeng H, Hsu CY, Assessment, Serial …
• Intensive Home Blood Pressure Lowering in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.
  Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials 2021 Se Ri Bae, Charles E McCulloch, Raymond K Hsu, Elaine Ku
• Recovery of kidney function after dialysis initiation in children and adults in the US: A retrospective study of United States Renal Data System data.
  PLoS medicine 2021 Ku E, Hsu RK, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Mitsnefes M, Grimes BA, Liu KD
• Prospective Cohort Study of Renin-Angiotensin System Blocker Usage after Hospitalized Acute Kidney Injury.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2020 Brar S, Liu KD, Go AS, Hsu RK, Chinchilli VM, Coca SG, Garg AX, Himmelfarb J, Ikizler TA, Kaufman J, Kimmel PL, Parikh CR, Siew ED, Ware LB, Zeng H, Hsu CY, ASsessment, Serial Evaluation, and …
• Exploring reasons for state-level variation in incidence of dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury (AKI-D) in the United States.
  BMC nephrology 2020 Chen Z, McCulloch CE, Powe NR, Heung M, Saran R, Pavkov ME, Burrows NR, Hsu RK, Hsu CY, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chronic Kidney Disease Surveillance Team Neil Powe
• Recovery of Kidney Function Among Patients With Glomerular Disease Starting Maintenance Dialysis.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2020 Kwong YD, Liu KD, Hsu RK, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Seth D, Fallahzadeh MK, Grimes BA, Ku E
• Post-Acute Kidney Injury Proteinuria and Subsequent Kidney Disease Progression: The Assessment, Serial Evaluation, and Subsequent Sequelae in Acute Kidney Injury (ASSESS-AKI) Study.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Hsu CY, Chinchilli VM, Coca S, Devarajan P, Ghahramani N, Go AS, Hsu RK, Ikizler TA, Kaufman J, Liu KD, Parikh CR, Reeves WB, Wurfel M, Zappitelli M, Kimmel PL, Siew ED, ASSESS-AKI Investigators
• Acute Kidney Injury with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Push beyond Case Reports.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2019 Carlos CA, Hsu RK
• The relation between dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury and recovery from end-stage renal disease: a national study.
  BMC nephrology 2019 Chen Z, Lee BJ, McCulloch CE, Burrows NR, Heung M, Hsu RK, Pavkov ME, Powe NR, Saran R, Shahinian V, Hsu CY, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chronic Kidney Disease Surveillance Team
• Impact of AKI on Urinary Protein Excretion: Analysis of Two Prospective Cohorts.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2019 Hsu CY, Hsu RK, Liu KD, Yang J, Anderson A, Chen J, Chinchilli VM, Feldman HI, Garg AX, Hamm L, Himmelfarb J, Kaufman JS, Kusek JW, Parikh CR, Ricardo AC, Rosas SE, Saab G, Sha D, Siew ED, Sondheimer …
• Research-based versus clinical serum creatinine measurements and the association of acute kidney injury with subsequent kidney function: findings from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort study.
  Clinical kidney journal 2019 Hsu RK, Hsu CY, McCulloch CE, Yang J, Anderson AH, Chen J, Feldman HI, He J, Liu KD, Navaneethan SD, Porter AC, Rahman M, Tan TC, Wilson FP, Xie D, Zhang X, Go AS, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (…
• Magnitude of the Difference Between Clinic and Ambulatory Blood Pressures and Risk of Adverse Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2019 Ku E, Hsu RK, Tuot DS, Bae SR, Lipkowitz MS, Smogorzewski MJ, Grimes BA, Weir MR
• Predicting Renal Recovery After Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury.
  Kidney international reports 2019 Lee BJ, Hsu CY, Parikh R, McCulloch CE, Tan TC, Liu KD, Hsu RK, Pravoverov L, Zheng S, Go AS
• Effect of Rosuvastatin on Acute Kidney Injury in Sepsis-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
  Canadian journal of kidney health and disease 2018 Hsu RK, Truwit JD, Matthay MA, Levitt JE, Thompson BT, Liu KD
• County-level air quality and the prevalence of diagnosed chronic kidney disease in the US Medicare population.
  PloS one 2018 Bragg-Gresham J, Morgenstern H, McClellan W, Saydah S, Pavkov M, Williams D, Powe N, Tuot D, Hsu R, Saran R, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CKD Surveillance System
• Non-recovery from dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury and short-term mortality and cardiovascular risk: a cohort study.
  BMC nephrology 2018 Lee BJ, Hsu CY, Parikh RV, Leong TK, Tan TC, Walia S, Liu KD, Hsu RK, Go AS
• Duration of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients.
  Annals of intensive care 2018 Federspiel CK, Itenov TS, Mehta K, Hsu RK, Bestle MH, Liu KD
• Management of Acute Kidney Injury: Core Curriculum 2018.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2018 Moore PK, Hsu RK, Liu KD
• Pre-admission proteinuria impacts risk of non-recovery after dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury.
  Kidney international 2018 Lee BJ, Go AS, Parikh R, Leong TK, Tan TC, Walia S, Hsu RK, Liu KD, Hsu CY
• Pragmatic studies for acute kidney injury: Consensus report of the Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) 19 Workgroup.
  Journal of critical care 2017 Peng Z, Yu K, Ostermann M, Xi X, Hsu R, Vincent JL, Prowle JR, Du B, Gallagher M, Wang C, Murugan R, Qiu H, Rimmelé T, Li J, Forni LG, Kashani K, Ronco C, Kellum JA, Acute Disease Quality Initiative (…
• The growth of AKI: half empty or half full, it's the size of the glass that matters.
  Kidney international 2017 Hsu RK, Siew ED
• Recent trends in the prevalence of chronic kidney disease: not the same old song.
  Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension 2017 Hsu RK, Powe NR
• The Role of Acute Kidney Injury in Chronic Kidney Disease.
  Seminars in nephrology 2016 Hsu RK, Hsu CY
• Utilizing electronic health records to predict acute kidney injury risk and outcomes: workgroup statements from the 15(th) ADQI Consensus Conference.
  Canadian journal of kidney health and disease 2016 Sutherland SM, Chawla LS, Kane-Gill SL, Hsu RK, Kramer AA, Goldstein SL, Kellum JA, Ronco C, Bagshaw SM, 15 ADQI Consensus Group
• Abrupt Decline in Kidney Function Before Initiating Hemodialysis and All-Cause Mortality: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2016 Hsu RK, Chai B, Roy JA, Anderson AH, Bansal N, Feldman HI, Go AS, He J, Horwitz EJ, Kusek JW, Lash JP, Ojo A, Sondheimer JH, Townsend RR, Zhan M, Hsu CY, CRIC Study Investigators
• Exploring Potential Reasons for the Temporal Trend in Dialysis-Requiring AKI in the United States.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2015 Hsu RK, McCulloch CE, Heung M, Saran R, Shahinian VB, Pavkov ME, Burrows NR, Powe NR, Hsu CY, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chronic Kidney Disease Surveillance Team
• Elevated BP after AKI.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2015 Hsu CY, Hsu RK, Yang J, Ordonez JD, Zheng S, Go AS
• Regional variation in the incidence of dialysis-requiring AKI in the United States.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2013 Hsu RK, McCulloch CE, Ku E, Dudley RA, Hsu CY
• Temporal trends in prevalence of CKD: the glass is half full and not half empty.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2013 Hsu RK, Hsu CY
• Temporal changes in incidence of dialysis-requiring AKI.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2012 Hsu RK, McCulloch CE, Dudley RA, Lo LJ, Hsu CY
• We can diagnose AKI "early".
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2012 Hsu RK, Hsu CY
• Acute kidney injury: comment on "trends in the incidence of acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction".
  Archives of internal medicine 2012 Hsu RK, Hsu CY
• FGF-23 and PTH levels in patients with acute kidney injury: A cross-sectional case series study.
  Annals of intensive care 2011 Zhang M, Hsu R, Hsu CY, Kordesch K, Nicasio E, Cortez A, McAlpine I, Brady S, Zhuo H, Kangelaris KN, Stein J, Calfee CS, Liu KD
• Proteinuria and reduced glomerular filtration rate as risk factors for acute kidney injury.
  Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension 2011 Hsu RK, Hsu CY