Javier A. Neyra, MD, MSCS

Dr. Neyra earned his MD degree from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He completed residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, followed by a Nephrology fellowship and a Clinical and Translational Science Research Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He completed a Master of Clinical Sciences at the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Dr. Neyra is the Director of the Acute Care Nephrology & CRRT Program at the University of Kentucky. He has implemented a state-of-the-art Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Survivor Clinic where he follows over 100 AKI survivors per year. Dr. Neyra has developed a multidisciplinary quality management system to establish and monitor metrics for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) deliverables in the intensive care unit (ICU).

He was awarded with the Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship by the American Society of Nephrology and is currently supported by an Early Career Pilot Grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

Dr. Neyra’s clinical interests are in the area of AKI and ICU Nephrology. His research interests include: early detection and risk-stratification of AKI, mechanisms of AKI recovery, and Klotho biology.

He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology.