Sonika Puri, MD| Transplant Surgery, Nephrology | MedStar Health
About me
Sonika Puri, MD, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained transplant nephrologist with more than 10 years’ experience in the field. She specializes in pre- and post-operative management for people undergoing kidney and pancreas transplantation, as well as the evaluation of living kidney donors.
Dr. Puri joins the team as the medical director of the Living Donor Kidney Program. She is passionate about improving access to life-saving living donation for patients with end stage renal disease.
Dr. Puri is an active researcher and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals on improving outcomes in kidney and pancreas transplantation, improving access to kidney donation and transplantation, and organ preservation. She is a member of the American Society of Nephrology, Lipid Association of India, and a Fellow of American Society of Nephrology. She earned her medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College at Delhi University in New Delhi, India and completed her internship and residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. She also completed two fellowships—one in nephrology at NYU Langone Medical Center and NYU School of Medicine in New York and one in transplant nephrology at University of California in San Francisco.
Dr. Puri works with each patient to help them achieve the best possible outcome from kidney and pancreas transplantation. In addition to always taking the time to listen to her patients, address their concerns, and educate them about their condition and treatment options, she also helps patients seek living kidney donors.
Dr. Puri is fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
When she’s not working, Dr. Puri enjoys reading, hiking with her family, and baking.
Clinical areas of focus
- Dopamine Therapy
- Graft Rejection Prevention
- Heart Transplant
- Lung Transplant
- Pancreas Transplant Rejection Treatment
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acquired Absence Of Organs
- Ascites
- Benign Neoplasm Of Digestive System
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Bone Marrow Transplant Graft Failure
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Complications Of Kidney Transplant
- Complications Of Transplanted Organs And Tissue
- Corneal Diseases
- Corneal Transplant
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cytomegaloviral (CMV) Infection
- Disorders Involving The Immune Mechanism
- Disorders Of Fluid, Electrolyte And Acid
- Donors Of Organs And Tissues
- Family History Of Malignant Neoplasm
- Graft Failure
- Heart Transplant Surgery
- Immunodeficiencies
- Infertility
- Intestinal Stenosis
- Intrahepatic Bile Ducts Cancer
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Liver Transplantation
- Long Term Drug Therapy
- Lung Transplant Complications
- Lung Transplant Rejection
- Obstructive And Reflux Uropathy
- Organ Donor Matching
- Polycystic Liver Disease
- Renal Artery Thrombosis
- Small Intestine Diseases
- Transplanted Organ And Tissue Status
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Venous Embolism
Procedures I perform
- Ablative Therapy
- Antiangiogenic Therapy
- Anxiety Management
- Biomicroscopy
- Blood Type Incompatible Transplant
- Blood Type Testing
- Cardiac Gene Expression
- Cardiovascular Fluorescence Imaging
- Cardiovascular Personalized Medicine
- Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
- Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection
- Clinical Trials
- Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
- Corneal Transplantation
- Cryopreservation Of Oocytes
- Deceased Donor Transplant
- Developmental Biology
- Dialysis
- Domino Liver Transplantation
- Domino Transplantation
- Dopamine Therapy
- Electrical Impedance Tomography
- Endovascular Surgery
- Epigenomic Medicine
- Etoposide Therapy
- Ex Vivo Imaging
- Face Transplant
- Flap Surgery
- Functional Mri
- Gastric Surgery
- Gastrointestinal Therapy
- Genitourinary Fistula Treatment
- Genitourinary Surgery
- Geriatric Surgery
- Graft Rejection Prevention
- Graft Survival Analysis
- Hair Transplant
- Heart Transplant
- Heart-Liver Transplant
- Hepatitis E Treatment
- Histocompatibility Testing
- Histology Services
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Immunoglobulin Administration
- Infection Management
- Inpatient Palliative Care
- Islet Xenotransplant
- Kidney Drainage
- Kidney Function Test
- Kidney Resection
- Kidney Stones Treatment
- Kidney Transplant In Hbv Patients
- Kidney-Pancreas Transplant
- Kinesiology Analysis
- Liquid Biopsy
- Liver Cancer Surgery
- Liver Lobe Transplant
- Liver Paired Donation
- Liver Transplant In Hcv Patients
- Liver Tumor Ablation
- Liver-Kidney Transplant
- Living Donor Transplant
- Lung Transplant
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Mammography
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplant
- Mesenteric Angiography
- Metabolomics
- Minimally Invasive Transplant Surgery
- Multivisceral Transplant
- Nephrectomy
- Nephrological Transplant Surgery
- Nutrition Counseling
- Ocular Coherence Tomography Angiography
- Optical Coherence Tomography
- Optical Projection Tomography
- Orthopedic Physical Therapy
- Ovary Transplant
- Oxidative Stress Analysis
- Pain Medication Management
- Palliative Care
- Pancreas Transplant Rejection Treatment
- Parotid Biopsy
- Patching Therapy
- Pediatric Liver Transplant
- Percutaneous Tumor Chemoembolization
- Pharmacological Treatment Of Hypertension
- Phase Contrast Imaging
- Pioglitazone Therapy
- Protein Expression
- Proteomics Research
- Psychological Counseling For Cancer
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Pulmonological Transplant Surgery
- Purkinje Imaging
- Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping
- Radioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Renal Biopsy
- Retrograde Ureteropyelography For Urinary Tract Imaging
- Robotic Surgery
- Robotic Transplant Surgery
- Short Tau Inversion Recovery Imaging
- Single Molecule Microscopy
- Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
- Single Plane Illumination Microscopy
- Skin Flap Procedure
- Skin Graft
- Small Bowel Transplant
- Social Work Services For Transplant
- Spectral Position Distance Microscopy
- Speech Therapy
- Stereotactic Spinal Procedure
- Steroid Minimization
- Surgical Wound Debridement
- T2 Weighted Imaging
- Tendon Transplantation
- Terahertz Imaging
- Tissue Biopsy
- Tongue Transplant
- Toxicogenomics
- Transcriptomics
- Transplant Bioinformatics
- Transplant Complications Treatment
- Transplant Regenerative Medicine
- Tumor Imaging
- Ultrasound
- Urinary Filtration Performance
- Urological Transplant Surgery
- Vaccinations
- Vascularized Composite Allograft
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna HMO
- IH-POS
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Police and Fire Clinic
- United Healthcare Choice
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- TRICARE East Prime
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Network OA
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- IH-Network Only Plus
- Beech Street PPO
- CareFirst NASCO
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- IH-Indemnity
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- TRICARE East Select
- UHC Passport
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Aetna Classic 3500
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- CIGNA PPO
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- CareFirst Administrators
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Sentara Health
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- IH-Open HMO
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- IH-HMO
- IH-PPO
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- OA Plus
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Choice Fund PPO
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- CIGNA EPO
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- POS OA
- First Health PPO
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- HighMark
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Classic 5000
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- First Health PPO
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- TRICARE for Life East
- Optimum Choice
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Medicare Direct
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Blue Choice Advantage
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- Medicare FFS
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- IH-EPO Plus
- United Student Resources
- HumanaChoice PPO
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- CareFirst EPO
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Navigate
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- IH-Open HMO Option
- Choice POS
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Aetna Basic
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- IH-Open POS II
- IH-POS Plus
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Choice POS II
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- Employee Health Plan
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: UCSF Medical Center (2014)
Fellowship: NYU Grossman School of Medicine (2013)
Residency: University of Connecticut School of Medicine (2011)
Medical School: Maulana Azad Medical College (2007)