Davoud Mohtat, MD


Medical School - University of Uludag (1998)
Residency - SUNY downstate Medical Center (2007)
Internship - SUNY downstate Medical Center (2005)
Fellowship - Montefiore Medical Center (2010)
Winner of Basic Science Research, New York Society of Nephrology, Fellow’s Night, NY (2010)
Parviz Lalezari Award for Research Excellence, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY (2010)
Best Teacher of The Year, awarded by pediatric residents of Georgetown University (2014)
Top Doctors Recognition - Washingtonian
Hu CY, Mohtat D, Yu Y, Ko YA, Shenoy N, Bhattacharya S, Izquierdo MC, Park AS, Giricz O, Vallumsetla N, Gundabolu K, Ware K, Bhagat TD, Suzuki M, Pullman J, Liu XS, Greally JM, Susztak K, Verma A. Kidney cancer is characterized by aberrant methylation of tissue-specific enhancers that are prognostic for overall survival. Clin Cancer Res. 2014 Aug; 20(16) 4349-60.
Ko YA, Mohtat D, Suzuki M, Park AS, Izquierdo MC, Han SY, Kang HM, Si H, Hostetter T, Pullman JM, Fazzari M, Verma A, Zheng D, Greally JM, Susztak K. Cytosine methylation changes in enhancer regions of core pro-fibrotic genes characterize kidney fibrosis development. Genome Biol. 2013; 14(10):R108.
Woroniecka KI, Park AS, Mohtat D, Thomas DB, Pullman JM, Susztak K. Transcriptome analysis of human diabetic kidney disease. Diabetes. 2011 Sep; 60(9):2354-69.
Mohtat D, Thomas R, Du Z, Boakye Y, Moulton T, Driscoll C, Woroniecki R. Urinary transforming growth factor beta-1 as a marker of renal dysfunction in sickle cell disease. Pediatr Nephrol. 2011 Feb; 26(2):275-80.
Mohtat D, Susztak K. Fine tuning gene expression: the epigenome. Semin Nephrol. 2010 Sep;30(5):468-76.
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