Locations

San Diego County

3020 Children's Way
MC 5137
San Diego, CA 92123

Specialty

Nephrology

Organization

Rady Children's Specialists of San Diego

Medical Group / IPA

CPMG/RCHN/RCSSD

Other Languages

French, Spanish

Medical School

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Internship

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Residency

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Board Certifications

Nephrology, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatrics

Gender

F

Bio

Dr. Nadine Benador is a pediatric nephrologist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and a clinical professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She is director of Rady Children's pediatric dialysis and apheresis programs.

After earning her medical degree from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, she completed her residency in Switzerland, trained as a neonatal fellow in Vancouver, BC, and completed a pediatric nephrology fellowship in San Diego. She joined the faculty at UC San Diego in 2000.

Dr. Benador provides both general inpatient and outpatient nephrology care and teaches medical students, residents, fellows and nurses. She is a clinical expert in pediatric dialysis, in neonates to young adults, as well as pediatric apheresis, including stem cell collection, therapeutic plasma exchange and other apheresis therapies. She prides herself on providing personalized care.

She is actively involved in projects to improve treatments for children with chronic kidney disease and has been participating in several multicenter pharmaceutical trials. She is the central principal investigator for ongoing clinical studies.

Outside of work, Dr. Benador enjoys spending time with her husband and children, playing the piano, cooking French cuisine and reading.

Publications

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Drug-Induced Acute Kidney Injury Cases.
Yousif ZK, Koola JD, Macedo E, Cerda J, Goldstein SL, Chakravarthi R, Lewington A, Selewski D, Zappitelli M, Cruz D, Tolwani A, Joy MS, Jha V, Ramachandran R, Ostermann M, Pandya B, Acharya A, Brophy P, Ponce D, Steinke J, Bouchard J, Irarrazabal CE, Irarrazabal R, Boltansky A, Askenazi D, Kolhe N, Claure-Del Granado R, Benador N, Castledine C, Davenport A, Barratt J, Bhandari S, Riley AA, Davis TK, Farmer C, Hogarth M, Thomas M, Murray PT, Robinson-Cohen C, Nicoletti P, Vaingankar S, Mehta R, Awdishu L

Assessment of fluid status in neonatal dialysis: the need for new tools.
Nourbakhsh N, Benador N

A unique pancreatic phenotype in a child with a WDR19-related ciliopathy: A case report and literature review of pancreatic involvement in ciliopathies.
Keyser MN, Huang M, Newton K, Benador N, Beauchamp-Walters J, Bird LM

Intraperitoneal vancomycin for peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis in children: Evaluation of loading dose guidelines.
Hennessy K, Capparelli EV, Romanowski G, Alejandro L, Murray W, Benador N

Establishing core outcome domains in pediatric kidney disease: report of the Standardized Outcomes in Nephrology-Children and Adolescents (SONG-KIDS) consensus workshops.
Hanson CS, Craig JC, Logeman C, Sinha A, Dart A, Eddy AA, Guha C, Gipson DS, Bockenhauer D, Yap HK, Groothoff J, Zappitelli M, Webb NJA, Alexander SI, Furth SL, Samuel S, Neu A, Viecelli AK, Ju A, Sharma A, Au EH, Desmond H, Shen JI, Manera KE, Azukaitis K, Dunn L, Carter SA, Gutman T, Cho Y, Walker A, Francis A, Sanchez-Kazi C, Kausman J, Pearl M, Benador N, Sahney S, Tong A, SONG-Kids consensus workshops investigators

Whole Exome Sequencing of Patients with Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome.
Warejko JK, Tan W, Daga A, Schapiro D, Lawson JA, Shril S, Lovric S, Ashraf S, Rao J, Hermle T, Jobst-Schwan T, Widmeier E, Majmundar AJ, Schneider R, Gee HY, Schmidt JM, Vivante A, van der Ven AT, Ityel H, Chen J, Sadowski CE, Kohl S, Pabst WL, Nakayama M, Somers MJG, Rodig NM, Daouk G, Baum M, Stein DR, Ferguson MA, Traum AZ, Soliman NA, Kari JA, El Desoky S, Fathy H, Zenker M, Bakkaloglu SA, Müller D, Noyan A, Ozaltin F, Cadnapaphornchai MA, Hashmi S, Hopcian J, Kopp JB, Benador N, Bockenhauer D, Bogdanovic R, Stajić N, Chernin G, Ettenger R, Fehrenbach H, Kemper M, Munarriz RL, Podracka L, Büscher R, Serdaroglu E, Tasic V, Mane S, Lifton RP, Braun DA, Hildebrandt F

De novo weekly and biweekly darbepoetin alfa dosing in pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease.
Warady BA, Barcia J, Benador N, Jankauskiene A, Olson K, Podracka L, Shavkin A, Srivaths P, Wong CJ, Petersen J

Therapeutic plasma exchange for the treatment of pediatric renal diseases in 2013.
Carter CE, Benador NM

Association between common iron store markers and hemoglobin in children with chronic kidney disease.
Atkinson MA, Pierce CB, Fadrowski JJ, Benador NM, White CT, Turman MA, Pan CG, Abraham AG, Warady BA, Furth SL

Association of proteinuria with race, cause of chronic kidney disease, and glomerular filtration rate in the chronic kidney disease in children study.
Wong CS, Pierce CB, Cole SR, Warady BA, Mak RH, Benador NM, Kaskel F, Furth SL, Schwartz GJ, CKiD Investigators

Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis with multiorgan involvement in a teenage male after lymphoma, Ewing's sarcoma, end-stage renal disease, and hemodialysis.
Krous HF, Breisch E, Chadwick AE, Pinckney L, Malicki DM, Benador N

Intravenous paricalcitol for treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in children on hemodialysis.
Greenbaum LA, Benador N, Goldstein SL, Paredes A, Melnick JZ, Mattingly S, Amdahl M, Williams LA, Salusky IB

Intravenous calcitriol for treatment of hyperparathyroidism in children on hemodialysis.
Greenbaum LA, Grenda R, Qiu P, Restaino I, Wojtak A, Paredes A, Benador N, Melnick JZ, Williams LA, Salusky IB

Mycobacterial peritonitis in pediatric peritoneal dialysis patients.
Ferrara E, Lemire J, Grimm PC, Reznik VM, Mendoza SA, Leake JA, Benador NM

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