Dr. Maya K. Rao, MD

Dr. Rao is the Leonard Stern MD Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Columbia University, where she has been on the faculty since 2009. She is the Director of the Chronic Kidney Disease Program at Columbia. She is the Chief of Medicine at the Allen Hospital, one of two NYP hospitals that are part of the Columbia sphere. In addition, she is the Vice Chair of Ambulatory Care in the Department of Medicine where she leads initiatives in practice improvement, efficiency, access and patient satisfaction across outpatient practices in the Department of Medicine.

Her clinical interests are in pre-dialysis kidney disease with a focus on geriatric nephrology. She has an interest in caring for older adults with kidney disease focusing on deploying a geriatric approach to multi-morbidity and chronic kidney disease, including initiating a palliative approach for patients who choose to forgo dialysis for active medical management. She is also a member of the Columbia …Doctors Hypertension Center, a multi-disciplinary center of excellence that provides high quality care and state-of-the-art diagnostic testing for patients with hypertension.

She has won numerous teaching and clinical awards including NYP-Allen Physician of the Year, the Ewig Clinical Scholar Teaching Award in the Department of Medicine, and induction in the Academy of Clinical Excellence at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in Columbia University.