Madhura Pradhan, MD, MBBS

Madhura Pradhan, MD, MBBS, is an attending physician with the Division of Nephrology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Pradhan completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Bombay, India, and attended medical school at Seth GS Medical College, University of Bombay, where she graduated at the top of her class. She completed a residency in Pediatrics at the BJ Wadia Hospital for Children in Mumbai followed by a residency at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, University of Connecticut. She completed her fellowship training in pediatric nephrology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she received the Fellows Teaching Award.

Dr. Pradhan joined the Division of Nephrology as an attending in 2001 and started the division’s outreach program in New Jersey. She served as the Medical Director of Dialysis for six years, and currently serves as the Outpatient Director and quality improvement co-champion for the division. She also works with the Lupus Program and the Lupus Integrated Nephritis Clinic (LINC).

Dr. Pradhan’s clinical focus includes chronic kidney disease, glomerular kidney diseases and tuberous sclerosis. She has established a comprehensive chronic kidney disease clinic in the division and a joint neurology/nephrology tuberous sclerosis clinic. She also is a consulting nephrologist for the Lupus Program and co-director of the Lupus Integrated Nephritis Clinic (LINC) at CHOP.

Dr. Pradhan’s other interests including teaching, mentoring, physician well-being, and bringing the humanities into medicine. She is a preceptor for the Professionalism and Humanism course (Doctoring) for medical students. She serves as a mentor for residents, medical students and junior faculty. She serves on the Physician Well-being Committee. She has established a Narrative Medicine group at CHOP, where colleagues across disciplines meet to read, reflect and write about their experiences as clinicians. She leads Balint group meetings for the division.

Dr. Pradhan has received the David Kornfeld Bedside Teaching Award and the Master Clinician Award. She has been featured as a “Top Doc” in SJ Magazine, South Jersey Magazine and Philadelphia Magazine.