Zubin J. Modi, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Nephrology Research Program
Biography
Dr. Zubin Modi is health services researcher and practicing pediatric nephrologist. He is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Pediatrics and a researcher at the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center. He completed his fellowship training in pediatric nephrology at the University of Michigan. During his fellowship training, he furthered his research training as a scholar at the Institute for Health Policy and Innovation at University of Michigan and completed a master’s degree in Health and Health Care Research. Prior to that he completed his general pediatrics residence at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. He obtained his M.D. at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
Dr. Modi’s research interests include epidemiology, population-based outcomes, and health care delivery for children with, and at risk for, chronic kidney disease. He is also interested in the impact of health policy on chronically ill children. His current work is focused on health care utilization of children with chronic kidney disease and development of methods identifying pediatric CKD in large data sets. Clinically, Dr. Modi has interests in chronic kidney disease and co-leads an international referral program for pediatric renovascular hypertension.
Education
BA, Neuroscience, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
MD, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI, 2012
MS, Health and Health Care Research, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, Ann Arbor, MI, 2019
Projects
Selected Publications
Modi ZJ, Lu Y, Ji N, Kapke A, Selewski DT, Dietrich X, Abbott K, Nallamothu BK, Schaubel DE, Saran R, Gipson DS. Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Young Adults With End-stage Renal Disease: An Analysis of the US Renal Data System. JAMA Cardiol. 2019;4(4):353-362. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2019.0375
Modi ZJ, Waldo A, Selewski DT, Troost JP, Gipson DS. Inpatient Pediatric CKD.
Health Care Utilization and Mortality in the United States.
Am J Kidney Dis. 2021 Apr;77(4):500-508. doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2020.07.024. Epub 2020 Oct 12. PMID: 33058964.
Modi ZJ, Kershaw DB.
Timing of procedural interventions in childhood renovascular hypertension.
Pediatr Nephrol. 2021 Jun 18. doi: 10.1007/s00467-021-05152-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34143295.
Oh GJ, Waldo A, Paez-Cruz F, Gipson PE, Pesenson A, Selewski DT, Kamil ES, Massengill SF, Lafayette RA, Modes M, Adler SG, Desmond H, Eikstadt R, Attalla S, Modi ZJ, Troost JP, Gipson DS.
Steroid-Associated Side Effects in Patients With Primary Proteinuric Kidney Disease.
Kidney Int Rep. 2019 Sep 9;4(11):1608-1616. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2019.08.019. PMID: 31891002; PMCID: PMC6933464.