Dr. Krishnan Babu, MD

Dr. Krishnan Babu received his secondary and post-secondary education at the S.B.O.A. Higher Secondary School in Madras, India. He earned his medical degree (MBBS) from the Madras Medical College in 1992. He went on to complete a rotating internship through the medical college's affiliations in Madras. He then served as the Internal Medicine senior house officer at Kugans Hospital in Coimbatore, India before returning to Madras Medical College as the senior resident in Internal Medicine. Dr. Babu chose the Republic of Ireland for additional training in Internal Medicine, serving as senior house officer at Cherry Orchard Hospital in Dublin. In 1996, he relocated to the United States and served a three-year residency in internal medicine and a two-year fellowship at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York before joining Pioneer Valley Nephrology in 2001.

Dr. Babu is interested in advancing the field of nephrology and continues his research with the support of a clinical …research grant. He is active in numerous medical societies including the American Medical Association and the Indian Medical Association. He is registered with the Irish Medical Association and is an associate member of the American Society of Nephrology and the National Kidney Foundation.

Dr. Babu is an associate member of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is board certified in the subspecialty of nephrology and hypertension.