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Insa Schmidt, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Medicine

Nephrology

MD, Universitaet Hannover
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

Pronouns: she/her/hers

ORCID : 0000-0002-0420-6570

BU Research
BMC Research

Stigma Syndemics and End-Stage Kidney Disease in Disenfranchised Urban Communities Fighting COVID- 19
10/01/2020 - 12/31/2021 (Multi-PI)
PI: Insa Schmidt, MD, MPH
Social Science Research Council

Deep learning approach for the assessment of arterial and arteriolar lesions in kidney biopsies and prediction of cardiovascular risk
09/01/2024 - 08/31/2029 (PI)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
1K01DK136973-01A1

A deep learning framework for the automated assessment of kidney pathology and prognosis
07/01/2023 - 06/30/2025 (PI)
American Society of Nephrology

Biomarker-based phenotyping for novel cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with chronic kidney disease
07/01/2020 - 06/30/2022 (PI)
American Philosophical Society

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Schmidt IM, Surapaneni AL, Zhao R, Upadhyay D, Yeo WJ, Schlosser P, Huynh C, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Kim T, Stillman IE, Barwinska D, Barasch J, Eadon MT, El-Achkar TM, Henderson J, Moledina DG, Rosas SE, Claudel SE, Verma A, Wen Y, Lindenmayer M, Huber TB, Parikh SV, Shapiro JP, Rovin BH, Stanaway IB, Sathe NA, Bhatraju PK, Coresh J, Rhee EP, Grams ME, Waikar SS. Plasma proteomics of acute tubular injury. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 27; 15(1):7368.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Henderson, Joel
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 39191768; PMCID: PMC11349760; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51304-x;

Yeo WJ, Surapaneni AL, Hasson DC, Schmidt IM, Sekula P, Köttgen A, Eckardt KU, Rebholz CM, Yu B, Waikar SS, Rhee EP, Schrauben SJ, Feldman HI, Vasan RS, Kimmel PL, Coresh J, Grams ME, Schlosser P. Serum and Urine Metabolites and Kidney Function. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jun 06; 35(9):1252-65.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38844075; PMCID: PMC11387034; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000403;

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Vasan RS, Verma A. The relationship between low levels of albuminuria and mortality among adults without major cardiovascular risk factors. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2024 Jun 03.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38825979; DOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwae189;

Kim T, Surapaneni AL, Schmidt IM, Eadon MT, Kalim S, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Hodgin JB, Menon R, Otto EA, Coresh J, Grams ME, Waikar SS, Rhee EP. Plasma Proteins Associated with Chronic Histopathologic Lesions on Kidney Biopsy. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jul 01; 35(7):910-922.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38656806; PMCID: PMC11230715; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000358;

Schlosser P, Surapaneni AL, Borisov O, Schmidt IM, Zhou L, Anderson A, Deo R, Dubin R, Ganz P, He J, Kimmel PL, Li H, Nelson RG, Porter AC, Rahman M, Rincon-Choles H, Shah V, Unruh ML, Vasan RS, Zheng Z, Feldman HI, Waikar SS, Köttgen A, Rhee EP, Coresh J, Grams ME. Association of Integrated Proteomic and Metabolomic Modules with Risk of Kidney Disease Progression. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jul 01; 35(7):923-935.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38640019; PMCID: PMC11230725; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000343;

Verma A, Schmidt IM, Claudel S, Palsson R, Waikar SS, Srivastava A. Association of Albuminuria With Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Persons With Chronic Kidney Disease and Normoalbuminuria : A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Apr; 177(4):467-475.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38560911; DOI: 10.7326/M23-2814;

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Vasan RS, Verma A. The relationship between low levels of albuminuria and cardiovascular mortality among apparently healthy adults. medRxiv. 2023 Dec 24.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38196576; PMCID: PMC10775339; DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.21.23300378;

Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Gopal DM, Verma A. Elevated cardiac biomarkers in relatively healthy U.S. adults. Eur J Intern Med. 2024 Mar; 121:152-154.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Gopal, Deepa
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie

PMID: 38087666; DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2023.12.006;

Srivastava A, Schmidt IM, Palsson R. Combined Angiotensin Inhibition for CKD: The Truth Is Rarely Pure and Never Simple. Am J Kidney Dis. 2024 Feb; 83(2):130-132. PMID: 38069999

Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Gopal DM, Verma A. Elevated Cardiac Biomarkers in Relatively Healthy U.S. Adults. medRxiv. 2023 Nov 27.View Related Profiles.

Gopal, Deepa
Schmidt, Insa

PMID: 38076817; PMCID: PMC10705644; DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.27.23299072;

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Shohet M, Nguyen NH, Stern LD, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM. Structural and Psychosocial Challenges Among Underserved Patients Receiving Hemodialysis During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study. Kidney Med. 2023 Nov; 5(11):100717.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Stern, Lauren
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 37817797; PMCID: PMC10561110; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100717;

Jhaveri KD, Schmidt IM, Oh J, Damashek LJ, Jain K. A Qualitative Evaluation of Advanced Training Programs in Glomerular Diseases: Results From a Program Directors' Survey. Kidney Int Rep. 2023 Nov; 8(11):2183-2186. PMID: 38025239; PMCID: PMC10658223; DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2023.08.023;

Srialluri N, Surapaneni A, Schlosser P, Chen TK, Schmidt IM, Rhee EP, Coresh J, Grams ME. Circulating Proteins and Mortality in CKD: A Proteomics Study of the AASK and ARIC Cohorts. Kidney Med. 2023 Oct; 5(10):100714. PMID: 37711886; PMCID: PMC10498294; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100714;

Schmidt IM. Revisiting nephrology care: a medical humanities perspective. J Nephrol. 2023 Jul; 36(6):1497-1499. PMID: 37341965

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Verma A. Kidney Disease-Related Mortality Among Asian Americans. Kidney Med. 2023 Aug; 5(8):100676.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 37576431; PMCID: PMC10421978; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100676;

Buckley LF, Schmidt IM, Verma A, Palsson R, Adam D, Shah AM, Srivastava A, Waikar SS. Associations Between Kidney Histopathologic Lesions and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease. JAMA Cardiol. 2023 Apr 01; 8(4):357-365.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 36884237; PMCID: PMC9996453; DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2023.0056;

Schmidt IM, Shohet M, Serrano M, Yadati P, Menn-Josephy H, Ilori T, Eneanya ND, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Waikar SS. Patients' Perspectives on Race and the Use of Race-Based Algorithms in Clinical Decision-Making: a Qualitative Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Jul; 38(9):2045-2051.View Related Profiles.

Cleveland Manchanda, Emily
Menn-Josephy, Hanni
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut
Ilori, Titilayo

PMID: 36811702; PMCID: PMC9945816; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08035-4;

Schmidt IM, Myrick S, Liu J, Verma A, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Onul IF, Stillman IE, Avillach C, Patil P, Waikar SS. The use of plasma biomarker-derived clusters for clinicopathologic phenotyping: results from the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort. Clin Kidney J. 2023 Jan; 16(1):90-99.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Avillach, Claire
Schmidt, Insa
Patil, Prasad
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 36726432; PMCID: PMC9871860; DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfac202;

Limonte CP, Valo E, Drel V, Natarajan L, Darshi M, Forsblom C, Henderson CM, Hoofnagle AN, Ju W, Kretzler M, Montemayor D, Nair V, Nelson RG, O'Toole JF, Toto RD, Rosas SE, Ruzinski J, Sandholm N, Schmidt IM, Vaisar T, Waikar SS, Zhang J, Rossing P, Ahluwalia TS, Groop PH, Pennathur S, Snell-Bergeon JK, Costacou T, Orchard TJ, Sharma K, de Boer IH. Urinary Proteomics Identifies Cathepsin D as a Biomarker of Rapid eGFR Decline in Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2022 Jun 02; 45(6):1416-1427.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 35377940; PMCID: PMC9210873; DOI: 10.2337/dc21-2204;

Schmidt IM, Colona MR, Srivastava A, Yu G, Sabbisetti V, Bonventre JV, Waikar SS. Plasma Kidney Injury Molecule-1 in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Discordance Between ELISA and Proximity Extension Assay. Kidney Med. 2022 Aug; 4(8):100496.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 36061370; PMCID: PMC9437607; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100496;

Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Verma A. A Call for Implementation Science: Achieving Equitable Access to SGLT2 Inhibitors. Kidney360. 2022 May 26; 3(5):942-944.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie

PMID: 36128478; PMCID: PMC9438421; DOI: 10.34067/KID.0001512022;

Liu J, Tio MC, Verma A, Schmidt IM, Ilori TO, Knauf F, Mc Causland FR, Waikar SS. Determinants and Outcomes Associated With Urinary Calcium Excretion in Chronic Kidney Disease. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 01 01; 107(1):e281-e292.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut
Ilori, Titilayo

PMID: 34390334; PMCID: PMC8684460; DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab574;

Schmidt IM, Sarvode Mothi S, Wilson PC, Palsson R, Srivastava A, Onul IF, Kibbelaar ZA, Zhuo M, Amodu A, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Humphreys BD, Waikar SS. Circulating Plasma Biomarkers in Biopsy-Confirmed Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 01; 17(1):27-37.View Related Profiles.

Amodu, Afolarin
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 34759008; PMCID: PMC8763150; DOI: 10.2215/CJN.09380721;

Garimella PS, Katz R, Waikar SS, Srivastava A, Schmidt I, Hoofnagle A, Palsson R, Rennke HG, Stillman IE, Wang K, Kestenbaum BR, Ix JH. Kidney Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Secretion. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 May; 79(5):709-716.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 34571064; PMCID: PMC8973399; DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.08.015;

Amodu A, Porteny T, Schmidt IM, Ladin K, Waikar SS. Nephrologists' Attitudes Toward Native Kidney Biopsy: A Qualitative Study. Kidney Med. 2021 Nov-Dec; 3(6):1022-1031.View Related Profiles.

Amodu, Afolarin
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 34939011; PMCID: PMC8664729; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2021.06.014;

Schmidt IM, Srivastava A, Sabbisetti V, McMahon GM, He J, Chen J, Kusek JW, Taliercio J, Ricardo AC, Hsu CY, Kimmel PL, Liu KD, Mifflin TE, Nelson RG, Vasan RS, Xie D, Zhang X, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Feldman HI, Bonventre JV, Waikar SS. Plasma Kidney Injury Molecule 1 in CKD: Findings From the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort and CRIC Studies. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 02; 79(2):231-243.e1.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut
Ramachandran, Vasan

PMID: 34175376; PMCID: PMC8709877; DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.05.013;

Schmidt IM, Colona MR, Kestenbaum BR, Alexopoulos LG, Palsson R, Srivastava A, Liu J, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Vaidya VS, Wu H, Humphreys BD, Waikar SS. Cadherin-11, Sparc-related modular calcium binding protein-2, and Pigment epithelium-derived factor are promising non-invasive biomarkers of kidney fibrosis. Kidney Int. 2021 09; 100(3):672-683.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 34051265; PMCID: PMC8384690; DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2021.04.037;

Schmidt IM, Waikar SS. Separate and Unequal: Race-Based Algorithms and Implications for Nephrology. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 03; 32(3):529-533.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 33510038; PMCID: PMC7920170; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2020081175;

Zheng Z, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Landis JR, Hsu CY, Shafi T, Feldman HI, Anderson AH, Wilson FP, Chen J, Rincon-Choles H, Ricardo AC, Saab G, Isakova T, Kallem R, Fink JC, Rao PS, Xie D, Yang W. Subtyping CKD Patients by Consensus Clustering: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 03; 32(3):639-653.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 33462081; PMCID: PMC7920178; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2020030239;

Srivastava A, Schmidt IM, Palsson R, Weins A, Bonventre JV, Sabbisetti V, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Waikar SS. The Associations of Plasma Biomarkers of Inflammation With Histopathologic Lesions, Kidney Disease Progression, and Mortality-The Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort Study. Kidney Int Rep. 2021 Mar; 6(3):685-694.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 33732983; PMCID: PMC7938082; DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.12.025;

Schmidt, IM. Immunity-Based Licenses and the Politics of the Body. BMC Medical Humanities Blog. 2020. View Publication

Schmidt IM, Verma A, Waikar SS. Circulating plasma angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 concentrations in patients with kidney disease. Eur Heart J. 2020 07 01; 41(32):3097-3098.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 32691065; PMCID: PMC7470752; DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa523;

Li P, Schmidt IM, Sabbisetti V, Tio MC, Opotowsky AR, Waikar SS. Plasma Endothelin-1 and Risk of Death and Hospitalization in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 06 08; 15(6):784-793.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 32381583; PMCID: PMC7274287; DOI: 10.2215/CJN.11130919;

Schmidt IM, Hübner S, Nadal J, Titze S, Schmid M, Bärthlein B, Schlieper G, Dienemann T, Schultheiss UT, Meiselbach H, Köttgen A, Flöge J, Busch M, Kreutz R, Kielstein JT, Eckardt KU. Patterns of medication use and the burden of polypharmacy in patients with chronic kidney disease: the German Chronic Kidney Disease study. Clin Kidney J. 2019 Oct; 12(5):663-672. PMID: 31584562; PMCID: PMC6768303; DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfz046;

Schmidt IM, Kreutz R, Dräger D, Zwillich C, Hörter S, Kuhlmey A, Gellert P. Lower Prescription Rates in Centenarians with Heart Failure and Heart Failure and Kidney Disease Combined: Findings from a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Very Old Patients. Drugs Aging. 2018 10; 35(10):907-916. PMID: 30187290; DOI: 10.1007/s40266-018-0581-z;

Kreutz R, Schmidt IM, Dräger D, Brüggen F, Hörter S, Zwillich C, Kuhlmey A, Gellert P. Atrial fibrillation and medication treatment among centenarians: Are all very old patients treated the same? Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2018 Dec; 18(12):1634-1640. PMID: 30259631; DOI: 10.1111/ggi.13531;

He CH, Lee CG, Dela Cruz CS, Lee CM, Zhou Y, Ahangari F, Ma B, Herzog EL, Rosenberg SA, Li Y, Nour AM, Parikh CR, Schmidt I, Modis Y, Cantley L, Elias JA. Chitinase 3-like 1 regulates cellular and tissue responses via IL-13 receptor a2. Cell Rep. 2013 Aug 29; 4(4):830-41. PMID: 23972995; PMCID: PMC3988532; DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.07.032;

Knauf F, Asplin JR, Granja I, Schmidt IM, Moeckel GW, David RJ, Flavell RA, Aronson PS. NALP3-mediated inflammation is a principal cause of progressive renal failure in oxalate nephropathy. Kidney Int. 2013 Nov; 84(5):895-901. PMID: 23739234; PMCID: PMC3772982; DOI: 10.1038/ki.2013.207;

Schmidt IM, Hall IE, Kale S, Lee S, He CH, Lee Y, Chupp GL, Moeckel GW, Lee CG, Elias JA, Parikh CR, Cantley LG. Chitinase-like protein Brp-39/YKL-40 modulates the renal response to ischemic injury and predicts delayed allograft function. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013 Feb; 24(2):309-19. PMID: 23291472; PMCID: PMC3559482; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2012060579;

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 39 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2023

Bar chart showing 39 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2023

Year	Publications
2013	3
2018	2
2019	1
2020	3
2021	8
2022	5
2023	11
2024	6

Media Mentions

Study investigates patients' perspectives on use of race-based algorithms in clinical decision-making

News Medical 2/24/2023

Plasma kidney injury molecule levels linked to kidney failure, lesions

Healio 7/7/2021

2023-2025 American Society of Nephrology: Carl W. Gottschalk Research Award

2023 Boston University: DOM Research Accelerator Program

2022 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN Trainee of the Year Award

2020 Kidney Precision Medicine Project, Face-to-Face Meeting, Arlington, VA: Opportunity Pool Travel Grant

2020-2022 American Philosophical Society: Daland Fellowship in Clinical Investigation, Boston, MA

2020 American Society of Nephrology, Kidney Week: Karen L. Campbell, PhD, Trainee Support Award

2019 Kidney Precision Medicine Project, Face-to-Face Meeting, Arlington, VA: Opportunity Pool Travel Grant

2018 Cardiorenal Research Dialogue, Bayer, Berlin, Germany: Poster Prize Award

2018-2019 Harvard University, Boston, MA: Charles W. Holtzer Fellowship Award, full-ride scholarship

2018-2019 German Academic Scholarship Foundation: Scholarship, ERP-program

2011 American Society of Nephrology: Top Abstract Award

2009-2010 Yale University, New Haven, CT: Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service

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