Olga Charnaya, MD, MS
Pediatric Nephrology
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Olga Charnaya
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Background
Dr. Olga Charnaya is an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She specializes in pediatric kidney transplantation but provides care for children with kidney disease of all types including hypertension, chronic kidney disease, dialysis, hematuria, and proteinuria.
Dr. Charnaya completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland in College Park, and a Master’s degree in Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University. Subsequently, she matriculated at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to complete her medical degree. Her residency training was completed at University of Maryland Medical Center where she also served as chief resident. Her subspecialty training in Pediatric Nephrology was completed at Children’s National Medical Center, after which she joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2017.
In addition to providing clinical care, Dr. Charnaya is pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical investigation at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and is actively engaged in clinical research to improve outcomes for pediatric kidney transplant recipients. Specifically, Dr. Charnaya’s research is studying ways to incorporate high-resolution tissue typing into deceased donor kidney allocation using computational modeling to improve immunological matching while preserving pediatric priority and equity (racial and geographic) in access to transplantation.
Research Summary
Dr. Charnaya’s primary research focus is pediatric kidney transplantation. She has several ongoing research endeavors, including exploring how to implement eplet mismatch analysis in pediatric kidney transplantation, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in pediatric kidney transplantation, and studying the response of pediatric transplant recipients to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Charnaya leads one of the division quality improvement initiatives to optimize care of children with nephrotic syndrome, which is a collaborative effort with eight other children’s hospitals. In 2020, she received the KL2 Clinical Research Scholars Award to support her research and allow her to complete a doctorate in clinical investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Selected Publications
Charnaya O, Ahn SY. Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Admissions for Nephrotic Syndrome Relapse in Pediatric Patients. Front Pediatr. 2019 Mar 29;7:112. doi: 10.3389/fped.2019.00112. eCollection 2019. PMID: 30984729
Charnaya O, Moudgil A. Hypertension in the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipient. Front Pediatr. 2017 May 1;5:86. doi: 10.3389/fped.2017.00086. eCollection 2017.
Charnaya O, Tuchman S, Moudgil A. Results of early treatment for de novo donor-specific antibodies in pediatric kidney transplant recipients in a cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort. Pediatr Transplant. 2018 Mar;22(2). doi: 10.1111/petr.13108. Epub 2018 Jan 22.
Philogene MC, Amin A, Zhou S, Charnaya O, Vega R, Desai N, Neu AM, Pruette CS. Eplet mismatch analysis and allograft outcome across racially diverse groups in a pediatric transplant cohort: a single-center analysis. Pediatr Nephrol. 2019 Oct 10. doi: 10.1007/s00467-019-04344-1. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31599339
Sgambat K, Cheng YI, Charnaya O, Moudgil A. The prevalence and outcome of children with failure to thrive after pediatric kidney transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2019 Feb;23(1):e13321. doi: 10.1111/petr.13321. Epub 2018 Nov 11. PMID: 30417493
Memberships
- American Society of Pediatric Nephrology
- American Society of Transplantation
- International Pediatric Transplant Association,
2016 - Current
Locations
- Rubenstein Child Health Building
- 200 North Wolfe Street, Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 443-997-5437
- fax: 410-614-8284
- Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center — Bethesda
- 6420 Rockledge Drive, Suite 2300, Bethesda, MD 20817
- phone: 443-997-5437
- fax: 410-955-6657
Expertise
Education
Children's National Hospital
Fellowship, Pediatric Nephrology, 2017University of Maryland Medical Center
Residency, Pediatrics, 2013Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Science
Medical Education, MD, 2010Georgetown University
Graduate School, MS, 2005Board Certifications
Pediatric Nephrology
American Board of Pediatrics, 2018Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, 2013Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)