S Hedayati, MD

Associate Professor
Internal Medicine

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

susan.hedayati@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

Director, Fellowship Program in division of Nephrology, UTSW

Education

FellowshipDuke University Medical Center, Biomedical Research (2004)
ResidencyDuke University Medical Center, Internal Medicine (2001)
Medical SchoolGeorge Washington University School of Medicine (1998)

Research Interests

Association of WNK1 with hypertensive effects of dietary potassium deficiency
Depression, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment in Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease
Epidemiology and outcomes of cardiovascular disease in Chronic Kidney Disease

Publications

Featured
Death or hospitalization of patients on chronic hemodialysis is associated with a physician-based diagnosis of depression

Hedayati SS, Bosworth H, Briley L, Sloane R, Pieper C, Kimmel P, Szczech L , Kidney International , October 2008; (74):930-936

Featured
The predictive value of self-report scales compared with physician diagnosis of depression in hemodialysis patients

Hedayati SS, Bosworth HB, Kuchibhatla M, Kimmel PL, Szczech LA , Kidney Int , 2006; (69):1662-1668

Featured
Effect of immunization with a common recall antigen on viral expression in patients infected with HIV Type I

Stanley SK, Ostrowski MA, Justement JS, Gantt K, Hedayati S, Mannix M, Roche K, Schwartzentruber DJ, Fox CH, Fauci AS , NEJM , 1996; (334(19)):1222-1230

Non-traditional risk factors predict coronary calcification in chronic kidney disease in a population-based cohort

Baber U, de Lemos JA, Khera A, McGuire DK, Omland T, Toto RD, Hedayati SS , Kidney International , March 2008; (73):615-621

Physician-diagnosed depression as a correlate of hospitalizations in patients receiving long-term hemodialysis

Hedayati SS, Grambow SC, Szczech LA, et al. , Am J Kidney Dis , 2005; (46(4)):642-649

The evaluation of underlying cardiovascular disease among patients with end stage renal disease

Hedayati SS, Szczech LA , Adv Chronic Kidney Dis , 2004; (11(3)):246-253

Pharmacotherapy and reduction of mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease at risk for cardiovascular disease

Hedayati SS, Szczech LA , Current Medical Literature - Nephrology and Hypertension , 2004; (10(2)):25-29

The association between depression and chronic kidney disease and mortality among patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure

Hedayati SS, Jiang W, O’Connor CM, Kuchibhatla M, Krishnan KR, Cuffe MS, Blazing MA, Szczech LA. , Am J Kidney Dis , 2004; (44(2)):207-215

Honors/Awards

First Place Award for Clinical Research

Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, Nephrology Young Investigators Forum (2004)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Fellowship Award

Duke University (2002)

Columbian Women’s Scholarship Award

George Washington University (1997)

First Place Award for Research

Donald Glew, George Washington University (1996)

NIH Medical Student Research Fellowship Award, NIAID

(1995)