Kanae Ishihara, MD
Dr. Ishihara is a transplant nephrologist and an associate professor of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Ishihara earned her medical degree at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She completed her general nephrology and research fellowship at Tulane University in New Orleans, and served as a clinical instructor of medicine, nephrology at Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Ishihara completed her training in kidney and kidney-pancreas transplant fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She works closely with transplant surgeons as a member of the multidisciplinary BCM Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Center at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital's Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Program where she cares for pre-transplant and post-transplant patients.