Anne Huml MD, MS

Anne Huml, MD, MS is a transplant nephrologist and clinical researcher in the Department of Kidney Medicine within the Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. After graduating from Northeast Ohio Medical University, she completed Internal Medicine residency at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center where she also served as a Chief Resident and went on to complete general nephrology and transplant nephrology fellowship training. One of her primary research focuses is on health disparities in kidney disease, particularly on access to kidney transplant. She has worked on research teams to: improve access to the kidney transplant waiting list through the use of patient navigators; evaluate deceased donor organ offers to patients at the top of the waiting list; and investigate access to kidney transplant and transplant outcomes in large, national databases. In addition, Dr. Huml received federal funding from the National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Disease to study barriers to care for patients with failing kidney transplants and currently is a multi-PI for the NIDDK funded Cleveland COPE-AKI grant that seeks to improve care for patients discharged from the hospital following an episode of acute kidney injury. She is the Chairperson of the Medical Review Board for IPRO ESRD Network of the Ohio River Valley and Co-Chair of their Transplant Coalition working on quality improvement projects for patients with end-stage kidney disease. Dr. Huml also serves on the Cleveland Minority Organ and Tissue Transplantation Education Program (MOTTEP) advisory board.