Wendy Bravo, MD, MSCE

Attending Physician

Wendy Bravo, MD, MSCE is board-certified in general pediatrics and pediatric nephrology. She studied molecular biology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. She then spent two years doing health services research prior to pursuing her medical degree at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. After completing her general pediatrics residency at CHLA, she did her pediatric nephrology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in addition to getting her Master’s of Science in Clinical Epidemiology degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is delighted to be serving the patients and families at CHLA once again and participates in the care of general nephrology, dialysis, and kidney transplant patients. Dr. Bravo has a particular interest in onconephrology, chronic kidney disease, and acute kidney injury. She is the recipient of the To-Morrow’s Research Fund St. Baldrick’s Foundation Scholar Award and The Saban Research Institute Research Career Development Award. She hopes to do research that will ultimately improve the kidney outcomes of childhood cancer survivors.

Education

Medical School

Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Graduate School

Master's of Science in Clinical Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania

Internship

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, General Pediatrics

Residency

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, General Pediatrics

Fellowship

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Nephrology

Accomplishments

Certifications

General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
Pediatric Nephrology, American Board of Pediatrics

Publications

Hsiao W, Li Y, Getz K, Cao L, Krause E, Ramos M, Lee J, Gramatges MM, Rabin KR, Scheurer ME, Aplenc R, Denburg M, Miller TP. Acute and chronic kidney injury during therapy for pediatric acute leukemia: A report from the Leukemia Electronic Abstraction of Records Network (LEARN). Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 Sep 30:e30696. doi: 10.1002/pbc.30696. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37776085.

Hsiao W, Lapite A, Faig W, Abdel-Megid M, Carlson C, Hobbie W, Ginsberg J, Laskin B, Denburg M. Long-Term Kidney and Cardiovascular Complications in Pediatric Cancer Survivors. J Pediatr. 2023 Apr;255:89-97.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.10.029. Epub 2022 Nov 3. PMID: 36336006; PMCID: PMC10398617.

Hsiao W, Denburg M, Laskin B. Hypertension in Wilms tumor. Pediatr Nephrol. 2023 May 13. doi: 10.1007/s00467-023-06011-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37178208.

Hsiao WC, Abt P, Amaral S, Levine M, LaRosa C. Late renal allograft torsion in a pediatric transplant recipient. Pediatr Transplant. 2022 May;26(3):e14210. doi: 10.1111/petr.14210. Epub 2021 Dec 15. PMID: 34907635.

Strong A, Skraban C, Meyers K, Amaral S, Furth S, Drant S, Hsiao W, Galea L, Gold J, Gold NB, Leonard J, Lopez S, Zackai EH, Pyeritz RE. Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of Mendelian connective tissue disorders to include prominent kidney phenotypes. Am J Med Genet A. 2021 Dec;185(12):3762-3769. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62449. Epub 2021 Aug 6. PMID: 34355836; PMCID: PMC9888756.