Allen Kaufman, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Senior VP for Clinical & Scientific Affairs at Dialyze Direct since its inception in 2015, has practiced Nephrology since 1980. Residing in New York City, he served as the Chief of Dialysis at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center from 1982-1990, the Chief of Beth Israel Medical Center’s Yorkville Dialysis Unit from 1990-2000 and, subsequently, the Chief of Beth Israel’s Division of Nephrology & Hypertension from 1998-2004.
Dr. Kaufman has published more than 100 manuscripts, articles, book chapters and abstracts and has lectured widely, both regionally and nationally. Throughout his career, Dr. Kaufman has focused on dialysis innovations and therapies, has served on dialysis-related advisory and editorial boards and has received numerous awards, including local, regional and national “best doctor” citations and “patients’ choice” awards.
The critical, pragmatic steps involved in developing patient-centric and equitable care for the nursing home patients came only very recently when medically advanced home hemodialysis therapies were repurposed and modified for use in the elderly frail nursing home dialysis patient populations