Shiang-Cheng Kung, MD

Professor

After completing my Nephrology Fellowship at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia in 2002, I joined the faculty at Drexel University College of Medicine until 2004 when I returned to Einstein as a Transplant Nephrologist. Subsequently I became the Medical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Einstein from 2009 - 2013. Briefly I was the Medical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Lahey Clinic 2014 - 2016. Since June 2016, I had joined the transplant program at UCSF. Since completion of my training I had dedicated my energy taking care of kidney and pancreas transplant patients. I have a special interest in clinical transplantation, transplant immunology, and transplant immunotherapy. In addition I am also interested in clinical teaching. During my tenure at Einstein, I had started a Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program in 2011.

Education
Nephrology Fellowship, 2002 - Division of Nephrology, DOM, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Internal Medicine Residency, 2000 - Department of Medicine, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
MBBCh, 1992 - Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Publications

  1. Liu X, Lai YC, Cui D, Kung SC, Park M, Zoltan L, Larson PEZ, Wang ZJ. Initial Experience of Metabolic Imaging with Hyperpolarized [1-13C]pyruvate MRI in Kidney Transplant Patients. ArXiv 2024. PMID: 39314508


  2. Liu X, Lai YC, Cui D, Kung SC, Park M, Laszik Z, Larson PEZ, Wang ZJ. Initial Experience of Metabolic Imaging With Hyperpolarized [1-13C]pyruvate MRI in Kidney Transplant Patients. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2024. PMID: 39239784


  3. Fuad Shihab, Daniel Brennan, Matthew Ellis, Thin Thin Maw, Nikhil Agrawal, Grigory Shekhtman, Eric Stites, Jijiao Zeng, Edmund Huang, Shiang-Cheng Kung. 216.4: Wide Spectrum of Molecular Injury Highlights Heterogeneity of Banff Tubulitis and Interstitial Inflammation Lesions. Transplantation 2022. PMID:


  4. Yu TM, Sun KT, Kung SC, Lee BK, Wu MJ, Chen CH, Sun CS, Lo YC, Lan TH, Li CY, Chiu TF, Lin MC, Kao CH. Severe herpes simplex and varicella-zoster viral infection in patients with solid organ transplantation: A nationwide population-based cohort study with propensity score matching analysis. 2021. PMID: 34687787


  5. Yu TM, Chuang YW, Sun KT, Yu MC, Kung SC, Lee BK, Huang ST, Chen CH, Lin CL, Kao CH. Polycystic kidney disease is significantly associated with dementia risk. Neurology 2017. PMID: 28855402


  6. Jawa P, Jain K, Allen R, Bradauskaite G, Kung SC. Trichodysplasia spinulosa. Kidney international 2014. PMID: 24583997


  7. Saurabh Pande, Rasib Raja, Eric Bloom, William Gaughan, Shiang-Cheng Kung, Shivani Mehta. 235 Metabolic Alkalosis in Dialysis Patients and its Effect on Serum Potassium Levels. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2011. PMID:


  8. Pontinen T, Melin A, Varadi G, Khanmoradi K, Chewaproug D, Kung SC, Zaki R, Ortiz J. Cutaneous metastasis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma after kidney transplant: a case report and review of the literature. Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation 2010. PMID: 21143091


  9. Damon Hoffmann, John Gunselman, Daranee Chewaproug, Shiang-Cheng Kung, Kamran Khanmoradi, Radi Zaki, Jorge Ortiz. Living-related Donor Nephrectomy in a Patient With Complete Situs Inversus. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine 2010. PMID:


  10. Thomas Pontinen, Alyson Melin, Kamran Khanmoradi, Radi Zaki, Daranee Chewaproug, ShiangCheng Kung, Gabor Varadi, Jorge Ortiz. Cutaneous Metastasis of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Following Kidney Transplanation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. The American journal of gastroenterology 2009. PMID:


  11. M Kandarpa, S Subramanian, S Aure, K Samindla, R Raja, R Zaki, S- C. Kung. IMPACT OF DONOR AGE IN A STANDARD DONOR POPULATION ON THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION IN OUR CENTER- RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS. Transplantation Journal 2008. PMID:


  12. Piyaporn Apivatanagul, Svastijaya Daviratanasilpa, Charnes Chiu, Lon Sadowsky, Shiang-Cheng Kung, Rasib Raja. 8 Lack of Benefit From Bumetanide Infusion After Cadaveric Kidney Transplantation. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2007. PMID:


  13. Sirken G, Kung SC, Raja R. Decreased erythropoietin requirements in maintenance hemodialysis patients with statin therapy. ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992) 2003. PMID: 12918584


  14. Maraj S, Jacobs LE, Kung SC, Raja R, Krishnasamy P, Maraj R, Braitman LE, Kotler MN. Epidemiology and outcome of infective endocarditis in hemodialysis patients. The American journal of the medical sciences 2002. PMID: 12449446


  15. Shiang-Cheng Kung,Rasib Raja. PERITONEAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS AND ITS EFFECT ON BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS. ASAIO Journal 2002. PMID:


  16. Kung SC, Aravind B, Morse S, Jacobs LE, Raja R. Tunneled Catheter-Associated Atrial Thrombi: Successful Treatment with Chronic Anticoagulation. Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis 2001. PMID: 28452431


  17. Shiang-Cheng Kung, Bonapally Aravind, Stephen Morse, Larry E. Jacobs, Rasib Raja. Tunneled Catheter-Associated Atrial Thrombi: Successful Treatment with Chronic Anticoagulation. Sensor 2001. PMID: