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 ne...