WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Isai Gopalakrishnan, M.D., a kidney specialist, joined the section on nephrology faculty of the Department of Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center on Sept. 7. She is an instructor.
Gopalakrishnan specializes in clinical nephrology, hypertension-related kidney disease, glomerular diseases and peritoneal dialysis.
Her teaching interests include electrolyte disturbances, acid-base disorders and acute/chronic kidney disease.
Gopalakrishnan earned her medical degree at Texas A&M University Health Science Center in College Station, Texas, and completed both a residency and fellowship at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y. She is board-certified in internal medicine.
Wake Forest Baptist is ranked among the nation’s top 50 hospitals for care of kidney disease by U.S. News & World Report.
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (www.wfubmc.edu) is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Brenner Children’s Hospital, Wake Forest University Physicians, and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university’s School of Medicine and Piedmont Triad Research Park. The system comprises 1,056 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and has been ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report since 1993. Wake Forest Baptist also holds the Gold Seal of Approval™ from the Joint Commission, the nation’s esteemed standards-setting and accrediting body for health care quality. Wake Forest Baptist is ranked 32nd in the nation by America’s Top Doctors for the number of its doctors considered best by their peers. The institution ranks in the top third in funding by the National Institutes of Health and fourth in the Southeast in revenues from its licensed intellectual property.