Pascale Khairallah, MD, MS

HS ASST CLIN PROF-HCOMP

Education
BS, - Biology, American University of Beirut
MD, - Medicine, American University of Beirut
MS, - Clinical Scientist Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine
- Kidney Transplant, Columbia University Medical Center
- Nephrology, Columbia University Medical Center
- Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
Honors and Awards
  • Early Career Award for Excellence in Patient Care, Baylor College of Medicine, 2022
  • Faculty Teaching Award, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2022
  • Unsung Hero Award, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2022
  • Faculty Teaching Award, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2021
  • Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Nephrology, 2020
  • Fellow of the National Kidney Foundation, National Kidney Foundation, 2020
Publications
  1. Winkelmayer WC, Erickson KF, Khairallah P, He M, Montez-Rath ME, Chang TI, Niu J. Effectiveness and Safety of Apixaban Initiation Following Newly-Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Kidney Failure on Hemodialysis. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2025. PMID: 41352721


  2. Khairallah P, Lorenz EC, Sood P. Rethinking Transplant Care Through a Sex- and Gender-Based Lens. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2025. PMID: 41125306


  3. Khairallah P, Cortez NE, McMahon DJ, Sammons S, Agarwal S, Crew RJ, Cohen DJ, Dube GK, Mohan S, Chang JH, Morris HK, Fernandez HE, Aponte MA, Adebayo AO, Aghi A, Zaninotto M, Plebani M, Tripepi G, Gallieni M, Cosma C, Fusaro M, Nickolas TL. Calcitriol supplementation after kidney transplantation: results of a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2025. PMID: 40089990


  4. Khairallah P. Agents to treat osteoporosis in chronic kidney disease. Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension 2025. PMID: 40377654


  5. Khairallah P, Liu S, Montez-Rath ME, Erickson KF, Chang TI, Winkelmayer WC. Association between Parathyroid Hormone Concentration and Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Older Persons with Kidney Failure Initiating Dialysis. American journal of nephrology 2025. PMID: 40324351


  6. Yun AN, Rogers AW, Krisl JC, Kagan A, Adrogue HE, Khan AJ, Khairallah P, Yi SG, Hobeika MJ, Gaber L, Truong L, Podder H, Gaber AO, Knight RJ. Impact of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and Rituximab for Prevention of Idiopathic Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Recurrence Post-Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation direct 2025. PMID: 40034162


  7. Khairallah P, Lorenz EC, Waterman A, Aggarwal N, Pai A, Winkelmayer WC, Niu J. Trends in Kidney Allograft Failure Among First-Time Transplant Recipients in the United States. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2024. PMID: 39521400


  8. Khairallah P, Nickolas TL. Managing Osteoporosis in Dialysis-A Medical Catch-22. JAMA 2024. PMID: 38241040


  9. Garcia LP, Liu S, Lenihan CR, Montez-Rath ME, Chang TI, Winkelmayer WC, Khairallah P. Dialysis Modality, Transplant Characteristics, and Incident Atrial Fibrillation After Kidney Transplant: An Observational Study Using USRDS Data. Kidney Medicine 2023. PMID: 38188456


  10. Khairallah P, Cherasard J, Sung J, Agarwal S, Aponte MA, Bucovsky M, Fusaro M, Silberzweig J, Frumkin GN, El Hachem K, Schulman L, McMahon D, Allen MR, Metzger CE, Surowiec RK, Wallace J, Nickolas TL. Changes in Bone Quality after Treatment with Etelcalcetide. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2023. PMID: 37574661


  11. Lorenz EC, Hickson LJ, Khairallah P, Najafi B, Kennedy CC. Cellular Senescence and Frailty in Transplantation. Current transplantation reports 2023. PMID: 37576589


  12. Batal I, Khairallah P, Weins A, Andeen NK, Stokes MB. The role of HLA antigens in recurrent primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Frontiers in immunology 2023. PMID: 36911713


  13. Khairallah P, Robbins-Juarez S, Patel S, Shah V, Toma K, Fernandez H, Dube GK, King K, Mohan S, Husain SA, Morris H, Crew RJ. Tocilizumab for the treatment of chronic antibody mediated rejection in kidney transplant recipients. Clinical transplantation 2022. PMID: 36398915


  14. Hu A, Liu S, Montez-Rath ME, Khairallah P, Niu J, Turakhia MP, Chang TI, Winkelmayer WC. Associations of Serum and Dialysate Potassium Concentrations With Incident Atrial Fibrillation in a Cohort Study of Older US Persons Initiating Hemodialysis for Kidney Failure. Kidney international reports 2022. PMID: 36815107


  15. Khairallah P, Nickolas TL. Effectiveness of Pharmacological Interventions for Treatment of Osteoporosis in Patients With CKD 3-5D: No Clear Choices. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2022. PMID: 36328907


  16. Zanoni F, Khairallah P, Kiryluk K, Batal I. Glomerular Diseases of the Kidney Allograft: Toward a Precision Medicine Approach. Seminars in nephrology 2022. PMID: 35618394


  17. Khairallah P, Nickolas TL. Bone and Mineral Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2021. PMID: 34127484


  18. Khairallah P, Nickolas TL. Bisphosphonates in Kidney Disease-Safety First. Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2021. PMID: 33900635


  19. Khairallah P, Nickolas TL, Fusaro M. How and when to assess bone mineral density and bone quality in chronic kidney disease patients? Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2021. PMID: 31665427


  20. Khairallah P, Aggarwal N, Awan AA, Vangala C, Airy M, Pan JS, Murthy BVR, Winkelmayer WC, Ramanathan V. The impact of COVID-19 on kidney transplantation and the kidney transplant recipient - One year into the pandemic. Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation 2021. PMID: 33545741


  21. Khairallah P, Kamal J, Crew RJ, Serban G, Vasilescu ER, Dube GK, Batal I. The Association Between Post-Kidney Transplant De Novo Glomerulonephritis and Alloimmunity. Kidney international reports 2021. PMID: 33732995


  22. Stevens JS, King KL, Robbins-Juarez SY, Khairallah P, Toma K, Alvarado Verduzco H, Daniel E, Douglas D, Moses AA, Peleg Y, Starakiewicz P, Li MT, Kim DW, Yu K, Qian L, Shah VH, O'Donnell MR, Cummings MJ, Zucker J, Natarajan K, Perotte A, Tsapepas D, Krzysztof K, Dube G, Siddall E, Shirazian S, Nickolas TL, Rao MK, Barasch JM, Valeri AM, Radhakrishnan J, Gharavi AG, Husain SA, Mohan S. High rate of renal recovery in survivors of COVID-19 associated acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy. PloS one 2020. PMID: 33370368


  23. Murakami N, Mulvaney P, Danesh M, Abudayyeh A, Diab A, Abdel-Wahab N, Abdelrahim M, Khairallah P, Shirazian S, Kukla A, Owoyemi IO, Alhamad T, Husami S, Menon M, Santeusanio A, Blosser CD, Zuniga SC, Soler MJ, Moreso F, Mithani Z, Ortiz-Melo D, Jaimes EA, Gutgarts V, Lum E, Danovitch GM, Cardarelli F, Drews RE, Bassil C, Swank JL, Westphal S, Mannon RB, Shirai K, Kitchlu A, Ong S, Machado SM, Mothi SS, Ott PA, Rahma O, Hodi FS, Sise ME, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Devoe CE, Wanchoo R, Nair VV, Schmults CD, Hanna GJ, Sprangers B, Riella LV, Jhaveri KD, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Solid Organ Transplant Consortium. A multi-center study on safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer patients with kidney transplant. Kidney international 2020. PMID: 33359528


  24. Poggio ED, McClelland RL, Blank KN, Hansen S, Bansal S, Bomback AS, Canetta PA, Khairallah P, Kiryluk K, Lecker SH, McMahon GM, Palevsky PM, Parikh S, Rosas SE, Tuttle K, Vazquez MA, Vijayan A, Rovin BH, Kidney Precision Medicine Project. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Native Kidney Biopsy Complications. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2020. PMID: 33060160


  25. Khairallah P, Nickolas TL. The young, the uremic and the broken. Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2020. PMID: 32594126


  26. Winkelmayer WC, Khairallah P, Charytan DM. Nephrology and COVID-19. JAMA 2020. PMID: 32960255


  27. Khairallah P, Kudose S, Morris HK, Ratner LE, Mohan S, Radhakrishnan J, Chang JH. Reversal of Donor Hepatitis C Virus-Related Mesangial Proliferative GN in a Kidney Transplant Recipient. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2020. PMID: 32938647


  28. Lagana SM, Kudose S, Iuga AC, Lee MJ, Fazlollahi L, Remotti HE, Del Portillo A, De Michele S, de Gonzalez AK, Saqi A, Khairallah P, Chong AM, Park H, Uhlemann AC, Lefkowitch JH, Verna EC. Hepatic pathology in patients dying of COVID-19: a series of 40 cases including clinical, histologic, and virologic data. Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc 2020. PMID: 32792598


  29. Crew RJ, Khairallah P, Husain SA. Cell-Free DNA: Proceed, but with Caution. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2020. PMID: 32778533


  30. Santoriello D, Khairallah P, Bomback AS, Xu K, Kudose S, Batal I, Barasch J, Radhakrishnan J, D'Agati V, Markowitz G. Postmortem Kidney Pathology Findings in Patients with COVID-19. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2020. PMID: 32727719


  31. Kamal J, Khairallah P, Crew RJ, Ye X, Swanson SJ, Kudose S, Park DC, Appel GB, Markowitz GS, D'Agati VD, Batal I. Clinicopathologic Assessment of Monoclonal Immunoglobulin-associated Renal Disease in the Kidney Allograft: A Retrospective Study and Review of the Literature. Transplantation 2020. PMID: 31634325


  32. Ravera M, Nickolas T, Plebani M, Iervasi G, Aghi A, Khairallah P, Gallieni M, Mereu MC, Giannini S, Sella S, Zaninotto M, Paoletti E, Bussalino E, Di Lullo L, Bellasi A, Cosmai L, Foramitti M, Malberti F, Brandi ML, Ferrari S, Tripepi G, Fusaro M. Overweight-obesity is associated with decreased vitamin K2 levels in hemodialysis patients. Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2020. PMID: 32383688


  33. Batal I, Vasilescu ER, Dadhania DM, Adel AA, Husain SA, Avasare R, Serban G, Santoriello D, Khairallah P, Patel A, Moritz MJ, Latulippe E, Riopel J, Khallout K, Swanson SJ, Bomback AS, Mohan S, Ratner L, Radhakrishnan J, Cohen DJ, Appel GB, Stokes MB, Markowitz GS, Seshan SV, De Serres SA, Andeen N, Loupy A, Kiryluk K, D'Agati VD. Association of HLA Typing and Alloimmunity With Posttransplantation Membranous Nephropathy: A Multicenter Case Series. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2020. PMID: 32359820


  34. Fusaro M, Gallieni M, Porta C, Nickolas TL, Khairallah P. Correction to: Vitamin K effects in human health: new insights beyond bone and cardiovascular health. Journal of nephrology 2020. PMID: 31900882


  35. Fusaro M, Gallieni M, Porta C, Nickolas TL, Khairallah P. Vitamin K effects in human health: new insights beyond bone and cardiovascular health. Journal of nephrology 2019. PMID: 31858448


  36. Khairallah P, Canetta PA. A Case of Iatrogenic Dehydration. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019. PMID: 31445568


  37. Gelfand SL, Khairallah P, Nair D, Whelan AM. The AJKD Editorial Internship: Insights From the Inaugural Class of Editorial Interns. Volume 74 of Issue 3. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019. PMID: 31445567


  38. Brown L, Luciano A, Pendergast J, Khairallah P, Anderson CAM, Sondheimer J, Hamm LL, Ricardo AC, Rao P, Rahman M, Miller ER, Sha D, Xie D, Feldman HI, Asplin J, Wolf M, Scialla JJ, CRIC Study Investigators. Predictors of Net Acid Excretion in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019. PMID: 30910373


  39. Khairallah P, Nickolas TL. Updates in CKD-Associated Osteoporosis. Current osteoporosis reports 2018. PMID: 30353319


  40. Khairallah P, Nickolas TL. Management of Osteoporosis in CKD. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2018. PMID: 29487093


  41. Khairallah P, Isakova T, Asplin J, Hamm L, Dobre M, Rahman M, Sharma K, Leonard M, Miller E, Jaar B, Brecklin C, Yang W, Wang X, Feldman H, Wolf M, Scialla JJ, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study Investigators. Acid Load and Phosphorus Homeostasis in CKD. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2017. PMID: 28645705


  42. Khairallah P, Scialla JJ. Role of Acid-Base Homeostasis in Diabetic Kidney Disease. Current diabetes reports 2017. PMID: 28343312


  43. Moravec CS, Ruhe T, Cifani JR, Milovanovic M, Khairallah PA. Structural and functional consequences of minoxidil-induced cardiac hypertrophy. The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 1994. PMID: 8169836


  44. Hilal-Dandan R, Khairallah PA. Cyclic AMP in myocytes isolated from hypertrophied rat hearts. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology 1991. PMID: 1658343


  45. Mekhail NA, Estafanous FG, Vitullo JC, Khairallah PA. Portal-like microcirculation in rat sympathetic ganglia. Acta anatomica 1990. PMID: 2389664


  46. Vitullo JC, Karam R, Mekhail N, Wicker P, Engelmann GL, Khairallah PA. Cocaine-induced small vessel spasm in isolated rat hearts. The American journal of pathology 1989. PMID: 2774060


  47. Engelmann GL, Boehm KD, Haskell JF, Khairallah PA, Ilan J. Insulin-like growth factors and neonatal cardiomyocyte development: ventricular gene expression and membrane receptor variations in normotensive and hypertensive rats. Molecular and cellular endocrinology 1989. PMID: 2473931


  48. De Silva PE, Husain A, Smeby RR, Khairallah PA. Measurement of immunoreactive angiotensin peptides in rat tissues: some pitfalls in angiotensin II analysis. Analytical biochemistry 1988. PMID: 2851278