New Department Faculty
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Adhish Agarwal, MD Dr. Agarwal completed his medical school in India at the University of Delhi (MAMC), and then completed Internship and Residency training in Internal Medicine from Nassau University Medical Center in New York. After his Internal Medicine training, he completed a Clinical Fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Utah. He then went into Nephrology private practice in Ogden where he had a busy clinical practice and served as Medical Director for two University of Utah Dialysis units, as Chief Department of Medicine at McKayDee Hospital, and Medical Director for Intermountain Acute Dialysis services for the Northern region until he joined the University of Utah in June 2017. While in Ogden, he also served as a Board Member of Dialysis Research Foundation. Dr Agarwal’s primary clinical interests include all aspects of nephrology including glomerulonephritis, PKD, acute kidney injury, dialysis and long-term care of patients. His primary research interests include innovation in clinical care delivery and anemia in chronic kidney disease. |
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Clint Allred, MD Dr. Allred earned his medical degree from Ohio State University and completed his Internal Medicine Residency there at the Wexner Medical Center, finishing as Chief Resident. He completed his Fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Utah, finishing as Chief Fellow. Dr. Allred’s clinical interests include General Cardiology Disorders, Prevention, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Echocardiography. Dr. Allred will be seeing patients at the Cardiovascular Center here at the University Hospital. Dr. Allred enjoys running, hiking, gardening and spending time with his wife and three children. |
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Jamie Brant, MD Jamie Brant, MD is a Clinical Attending in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology for Supportive Oncology and Survivorship at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital. She is also the medical director for AMG Senior Medical group which is a home based supportive care program for those living with severe and life limiting illness. Brant’s areas of interest include communication skills training and home-based palliative care program design and implementation. She has spearheaded two different home-based medical programs in Utah and has designed and implemented a supportive care program with the largest Medicare advantage plan in Utah. This program is ongoing and utilizes a unique delivery model to care for the most medically unstable of this large population of chronically ill adults. Brant is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She completed her internship and residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and received her medical degree from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Illinois. |
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Ahmed Chahdi, PhD We are pleased to welcome Dr. Ahmed Chahdi to the faculty in the Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies. Dr. Chahdi completed his Ph.D. studies in Cellular Biology and Molecular Pharmacology at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg France in 1997. He did a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Health in the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute doing research on intracellular signaling. He accepted a position as Research Associate at the Medical College of Wisconsin in the Division of Nephrology and was promoted to Research Scientist II. In 2010 Dr. Chahdi was appointed Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland in the Department of Gastroenterology. In 2016 he accepted a position of Research Assistant Professor in the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and during this time he engaged in research with Professor Paul Bray. With the recruitment of Dr. Bray to the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Dr. Chahdi elected to move with Dr. Bray to continue their research partnership. Dr. Chahdi has 21 publications. His current research focuses on the signaling pathways induced by the activation of platelet PAR4 thrombin receptor. We welcome Dr. Chahdi to our faculty. |
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Catherine Loc-Carrillo, PhD Dr. Loc-Carrillo obtained her bachelors in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, her Masters in Biotechnology from Nottingham Trent University, UK. and her Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, UK. Between 2006 and 2009 she worked in the biotech field where she was a the Senior Research Scientist and manager of an R&D department. As an academic her research since 2010 has involved looking at how antibacterial agents such as phages can be applied for the reduction and eradication of problematic bacteria. Her goal is to conduct well-controlled, impartial research to investigate alternative treatments against infections, with particular emphasis on antibiotics resistant bacteria. As a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, her research plan for the next 5 years is to: 1) develop a microbiology laboratory which can be used to facilitate epidemiologic surveillance and built on the interrelations between epidemiology and microbiology; 2) develop small animal models to study musculoskeletal infections and antimicrobial agents to prevent/treat them; and 3) enter the data mining domain to support investigating Micro Lab data within the VHA medical records. |
