Anthony Muiru • UCSF Profiles

Anthony Muiru, MD, MPH

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	500 Parnassus Avenue, #E411 San Francisco CA 94143
Phone	415-476-5773
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Biography

Education and Training

University of California, Berkeley	B.A.	05/2006	Molecular & Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School, Boston	M.D.	05/2012
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston		05/2016	Internal Medicine
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston	M.P.H	05/2016
University of California, San Francisco		07/2018	Nephrology
University of California, San Francisco		2020	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

Overview

My desire to pursue a career in nephrology was catalyzed by the devastation from loss of lives due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) that I witnessed in rural Uganda and Kenya. Kidney replacement therapy is extremely scarce in this setting; those who require this life-sustaining therapy often succumb to their illness. During my clinical training in the U.S., I was further motivated to pursue a career in nephrology as I witnessed the disproportionate burden of end stage kidney disease among African Americans.

My research is focused on understanding the determinants of kidney disease among individuals living in rural East Africa and African Americans.

In addition, I am committed to creating a more diverse, inclusive and supportive community at UCSF.

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Research

Research Activities and Funding

SEARCH-CKD: The nature of chronic kidney disease and elevated blood pressure in sub-Saharan Africa.
NIH K23DK119562Jul 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2026
Role: Principal Investigator

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Publications

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Web Exclusive. Annals On Call - Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease Progression. Ann Intern Med. 2023 10; 176(10):eA220020. Centor RM, Hsu CY, Muiru AN. PMID: 37844319.

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Int Internal Medicine
Risk for Chronic Kidney Disease Progression After Acute Kidney Injury: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2023 07; 176(7):961-968. Muiru AN, Hsu JY, Zhang X, Appel LJ, Chen J, Cohen DL, Drawz PE, Freedman BI, Go AS, He J, Horwitz EJ, Hsu RK, Lash JP, Liu KD, McCoy IE, Porter A, Rao P, Ricardo AC, Rincon-Choles H, Sondheimer J, Taliercio J, Unruh M, Hsu CY, CRIC Study Investigators. PMID: 37429030; PMCID: PMC10829039.

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Int Internal Medicine
Translation:Humans
Effect of Adopting the New Race-Free 2021 Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Creatinine Equation on Racial Differences in Kidney Disease Progression Among People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: An Observational Study. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 02 08; 76(3):461-468. Muiru AN, Madden E, Scherzer R, Horberg MA, Silverberg MJ, Klein MB, Mayor AM, John Gill M, Napravnik S, Crane HM, Marconi VC, Koethe JR, Abraham AG, Althoff KN, Lucas GM, Moore RD, Shlipak MG, Estrella MM. PMID: 36069064; PMCID: PMC10169400.

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Com Communicable Diseases
Translation:Humans Cells
Clinical Risk Factors For Kidney Tubule Biomarker Abnormalities Among Hypertensive Adults With Reduced eGFR in the SPRINT Trial. Am J Hypertens. 2022 12 08; 35(12):1006-1013. Ikeme JC, Katz R, Muiru AN, Estrella MM, Scherzer R, Garimella PS, Hallan SI, Peralta CA, Ix JH, Shlipak MG. PMID: 36094158; PMCID: PMC9729764.

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Vas Vascular Diseases
Translation:Humans
APOL1 Genetic Testing in Patients With Recent African Ancestry and Hypertension: A Pilot Study of Attitudes and Perceptions. Kidney Med. 2022 Dec; 4(12):100549. Lentine KL, Muiru AN, Lindsay KK, Caliskan Y, Edwards JC, Memon AA, Mosman AK, Miyata KN, Vo TM, Freedman BI, Carriker A, Hsu CY, Philipneri MD. PMID: 36573119; PMCID: PMC9788954.

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Absence of long-term changes in urine biomarkers after AKI: findings from the CRIC study. BMC Nephrol. 2022 09 13; 23(1):311. McCoy IE, Hsu JY, Bonventre JV, Parikh CR, Go AS, Liu KD, Ricardo AC, Srivastava A, Cohen DL, He J, Chen J, Rao PS, Muiru AN, Hsu CY. PMID: 36100915; PMCID: PMC9472364.

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Nep Nephrology
Translation:Humans
Association of Race and Ethnicity With Prescription of SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP1 Receptor Agonists Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in the Veterans Health Administration System. JAMA. 2022 09 06; 328(9):861-871. Lamprea-Montealegre JA, Madden E, Tummalapalli SL, Peralta C, Neilands TB, Garcia PK, Muiru A, Karliner L, Shlipak MG, Estrella MM. PMID: 36066519; PMCID: PMC9449794.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Association of Intra-individual Differences in Estimated GFR by Creatinine Versus Cystatin C With Incident Heart Failure. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 12; 80(6):762-772.e1. Chen DC, Shlipak MG, Scherzer R, Bansal N, Potok OA, Rifkin DE, Ix JH, Muiru AN, Hsu CY, Estrella MM. PMID: 35817274; PMCID: PMC9691565.

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Nep Nephrology
Translation:Humans
Black and White Adults With CKD Hospitalized With Acute Kidney Injury: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 11; 80(5):610-618.e1. Muiru AN, Yang J, Derebail VK, Liu KD, Feldman HI, Srivastava A, Bhat Z, Saraf SL, Chen TK, He J, Estrella MM, Go AS, Hsu CY, CRIC Study Investigators. PMID: 35405207; PMCID: PMC9547036.

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Nep Nephrology
Translation:Humans
Associations of Lack of Insurance and Other Sociodemographic Traits With Follow-up After Living Kidney Donation. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 11; 80(5):683-685. Lam NN, Muiru AN, Tietjen A, Hays RE, Xiao H, Garg AX, McNatt G, Howey R, Thomas CP, Sarabu N, Wooley C, Kasiske BL, Lentine KL. PMID: 35301049.

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Nep Nephrology
Translation:Humans
Association of Intraindividual Difference in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate by Creatinine vs Cystatin C and End-stage Kidney Disease and Mortality. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 02 01; 5(2):e2148940. Chen DC, Shlipak MG, Scherzer R, Bauer SR, Potok OA, Rifkin DE, Ix JH, Muiru AN, Hsu CY, Estrella MM. PMID: 35175342; PMCID: PMC8855239.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
The incidence of and risk factors for hospitalized acute kidney injury among people living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment. HIV Med. 2022 07; 23(6):611-619. Muiru AN, Madden E, Chilingirian A, Rubinsky AD, Scherzer R, Moore R, Villalobos CPC, Monroy Trujillo JM, Parikh CR, Hsu CY, Shlipak MG, Estrella MM. PMID: 34897925; PMCID: PMC9177550.

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Acq Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd
Translation:Humans
Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD. N Engl J Med. 2021 11 04; 385(19):1750-1760. Hsu CY, Yang W, Parikh RV, Anderson AH, Chen TK, Cohen DL, He J, Mohanty MJ, Lash JP, Mills KT, Muiru AN, Parsa A, Saunders MR, Shafi T, Townsend RR, Waikar SS, Wang J, Wolf M, Tan TC, Feldman HI, Go AS, CRIC Study Investigators. PMID: 34554660; PMCID: PMC8994696.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Associations of CKD risk factors and longitudinal changes in urine biomarkers of kidney tubules among women living with HIV. BMC Nephrol. 2021 08 30; 22(1):296. Muiru AN, Scherzer R, Ascher SB, Jotwani V, Grunfeld C, Shigenaga J, Spaulding KA, Ng DK, Gustafson D, Spence AB, Sharma A, Cohen MH, Parikh CR, Ix JH, Estrella MM, Shlipak MG. PMID: 34461840; PMCID: PMC8406753.

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Nep Nephrology
Translation:Humans
Kidney tubule health scores and their associations with incident CKD in women living with HIV. HIV Med. 2021 08; 22(7):527-537. Ascher SB, Scherzer R, Estrella MM, Muiru AN, Jotwani VK, Grunfeld C, Shigenaga J, Spaulding KA, Ng DK, Gustafson D, Spence AB, Sharma A, Cohen MH, Parikh CR, Ix JH, Shlipak MG. PMID: 33751761; PMCID: PMC8803539.

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Acq Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd
Translation:Humans
The epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in rural East Africa: A population-based study. PLoS One. 2020; 15(3):e0229649. Muiru AN, Charlebois ED, Balzer LB, Kwarisiima D, Elly A, Black D, Okiror S, Kabami J, Atukunda M, Snyman K, Petersen M, Kamya M, Havlir D, Estrella MM, Hsu CY. PMID: 32130245; PMCID: PMC7055898.

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Med Medicine (General)Sci Science
Translation:Humans
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate initiation and changes in urinary biomarker concentrations among HIV-infected men and women. AIDS. 2019 03 15; 33(4):723-733. Zhang WR, Scherzer R, Estrella MM, Ascher SB, Muiru A, Jotwani V, Grunfeld C, Parikh CR, Gustafson D, Kassaye S, Sharma A, Cohen M, Tien PC, Ng DK, Palella FJ, Witt MD, Ho K, Shlipak MG. PMID: 30830887; PMCID: PMC6400312.

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Acq Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd
Translation:Humans
Kidney disease risk factors associate with urine biomarkers concentrations in HIV-positive persons; a cross-sectional study. BMC Nephrol. 2019 01 03; 20(1):4. Muiru AN, Shlipak MG, Scherzer R, Zhang WR, Ascher SB, Jotwani V, Grunfeld C, Parikh CR, Ng D, Palella FJ, Ho K, Kassaye S, Sharma A, Cohen M, Wang R, Qi Q, Estrella MM. PMID: 30606136; PMCID: PMC6318986.

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Nep Nephrology
Translation:Humans
Association of Urinary Biomarkers of Kidney Injury with Estimated GFR Decline in HIV-Infected Individuals following Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Initiation. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 09 07; 13(9):1321-1329. Ascher SB, Scherzer R, Estrella MM, Zhang WR, Muiru AN, Jotwani V, Grunfeld C, Parikh CR, Gustafson D, Young M, Sharma A, Cohen MH, Ng DK, Palella FJ, Witt MD, Ho K, Shlipak MG. PMID: 30154221; PMCID: PMC6140559.

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Nep Nephrology
Translation:Humans
Distribution and Performance of Cardiovascular Risk Scores in a Mixed Population of HIV-Infected and Community-Based HIV-Uninfected Individuals in Uganda. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2018 08 01; 78(4):458-464. Muiru AN, Bibangambah P, Hemphill L, Sentongo R, Kim JH, Triant VA, Bangsberg DR, Tsai AC, Martin JN, Haberer JE, Boum Y, Plutzky J, Hunt PW, Okello S, Siedner MJ. PMID: 29652762; PMCID: PMC6019157.

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Acq Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd
Translation:Humans
Validity and Reliability of a Self-Reported Measure of Antihypertensive Medication Adherence in Uganda. PLoS One. 2016; 11(7):e0158499. Okello S, Nasasira B, Muiru AN, Muyingo A. PMID: 27367542; PMCID: PMC4930194.

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Med Medicine (General)Sci Science
Translation:Humans
Chronic kidney disease in low- and middle-income countries. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2016 06; 31(6):868-74. Stanifer JW, Muiru A, Jafar TH, Patel UD. PMID: 27217391; PMCID: PMC4876969.

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Nep Nephrology Tra Transplantation
Translation:Humans
Impact of rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria at a peripheral health facility in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. Malar J. 2015 May 15; 14:203. Boyce RM, Muiru A, Reyes R, Ntaro M, Mulogo E, Matte M, Siedner MJ. PMID: 25971788; PMCID: PMC4435913.

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Tro Tropical Medicine
Translation:Humans Animals
Antibiotic use and emerging resistance: how can resource-limited countries turn the tide? Glob Heart. 2014 Sep; 9(3):347-58. Bebell LM, Muiru AN. PMID: 25667187; PMCID: PMC4369554.

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Car Cardiology Vas Vascular Diseases
Translation:Humans PHPublic Health
Poor adherence to AASLD guidelines for chronic hepatitis B Management and treatment in a large academic medical center. Am J Gastroenterol. 2014 Jun; 109(6):867-75. Wu Y, Johnson KB, Roccaro G, Lopez J, Zheng H, Muiru A, Ufere N, Rajbhandari R, Kattan O, Chung RT. PMID: 24732869; PMCID: PMC4624277.

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Gas Gastroenterology
Translation:Humans
Incident HSV-2 infections are common among HIV-1-discordant couples. J Infect Dis. 2013 Oct 01; 208(7):1093-101. Muiru AN, Guthrie BL, Bosire R, Merkel M, Liu AY, Choi RY, Lohman-Payne B, Gatuguta A, Mackelprang RD, Kiarie JN, Farquhar C. PMID: 23840044; PMCID: PMC3762386.

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Com Communicable Diseases
Translation:Humans Cells
Distance from home to study clinic and risk of follow-up interruption in a cohort of HIV-1-discordant couples in Nairobi, Kenya. PLoS One. 2012; 7(8):e43138. Conley NJ, Pavlinac PB, Guthrie BL, Mackelprang RD, Muiru AN, Choi RY, Bosire R, Gatuguta A, Farquhar C. PMID: 22937017; PMCID: PMC3428010.

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Med Medicine (General)Sci Science
Translation:Humans
P1-S5.04 HSV-2 Prevalence and Incidence among Stable HIV-1 Discordant Couples in Nairobi, Kenya. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2011 Jul 1; 87(Suppl 1):a176. Muiru MA, Bosire BR, Guthrie GB, Choi CR, Merkel MM, Chohan CB, Kiarie KJ, Lohman-Payne LB, Farquhar FC. .

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