John Cijiang He, MD, PhD

Dr. John Cijiang He received his medical degree from Shanghai Second Medical University in China and his PhD in Physiology at University of Paris VII in France. He then received further research training as a visiting scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland and the Picower Institute for Medical Research in New York. He completed his medical residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and clinical nephrology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Since then, he has been a faculty at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He was the chief of Nephrology at Bronx VAMC from 2004 to 2013. He became the division chief of Nephrology at Mount Sinai Health System since 2013. Dr. He is Professor of Medicine and Pharmacological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He holds the title of Irene and Dr. Arthur Fishberg endowed chair of Nephrology. He is the chief of Nephrology at Mount Sinai Health System. He was the President of the New York Society of Nephrology and the President of Chinese American Society of Nephrology. He is member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He has been funded by multiple NIH and VA grants and has published more than 300 papers in high-impact peer-reviewed scientific journals. His major research areas include glomerular cell biology, systems biology of kidney disease, and kidney fibrosis. Dr. He's clinical interest include diabetic kidney disease, viral-induced kidney disease, and primary glomerular disease.