Osama El Shamy MD is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine in the Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension division. He completed both his nephrology fellowship fellowships at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He also completed an additional year of fellowship at the same institution to in home dialysis (Home Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis).

Dr. El Shamy is the Medical Director at the DaVita Cedar Grove dialysis unit in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to joining Penn, he was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University and George Washington University. During his time at Vanderbilt he established a dialysis fellowship and he served as Associate Nephrology Fellowship Program Director and the director of the ESRD service at George Washington. Dr El Shamy is currently co-chair of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD)–North America Chapter (NAC) Program Committee, treasurer of the ISPD-NAC, and North America representative at the ISPD Council at-large. 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.