Osama El Shamy, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, DC. He completed his medical school training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and completed both his nephrology fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He also completed an additional year of fellowship at the same institution in home dialysis (Home Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis).
Dr. El Shamy is the Medical Director at the DaVita Southeast dialysis unit in Washington DC, associate Nephrology Fellowship Program Director and the director of the ESRD service at GW.
Prior to joining GW, he was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, where he established a dialysis fellowship. He has assumed several leadership roles in educating peers and advancing home dialysis. As a well-published author and authority in the field of home dialysis, he has been invited to organize and present at national and international meetings.
Dr. El Shamy is currently co-chair of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) Program Committee, both an author and reviewer for UpToDate’s peritoneal dialysis section, a hub committee member on the NKF Home Dialysis Project ECHO, member of the steering committee of the Home Hemodialysis Fellowship Training Program through Outset Medical, and former co-chair of the NKF Kidney Commute podcast. Other leadership teaching responsibilities include being a faculty member of Home Dialysis University and leading the ISPD North American Chapter Central Time Zone journal club series.
He is the recipient of the Gold Humanism in Medicine award and is a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He has been involved in multiple national and international societies’ meetings, such as the ASN Home Dialysis Focus Group, the ASN post-acute kidney injury on dialysis (AKI-D) care workgroup, and the KDIGO controversies conference in home dialysis. He also served as an abstract review for both the International Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Nephrology meetings.
