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Samantha L Gelfand

Samantha L Gelfand, MD

Nephrology

Mass General Brigham

Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Adults
  • Geriatrics

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • French
  • English

Gender

Female

About Samantha L Gelfand

Dr. Gelfand received her B.A. from Harvard College in Romance Languages and Literatures and her MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine with distinction in medical education. She is a dual board-certified nephrologist and palliative medicine physician who specializes in kidney palliative care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her clinical and academic focus is on symptom management, medical decision-making, and conservative kidney management as an alternative to dialysis for seriously ill patients with advanced kidney disease.

Locations

  1. Brigham and Women's Renal Medicine Clinic
  2. Brigham and Women's KidneyPal Program

Expertise

Education

  • Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2020
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Nephrology, 2019
  • Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital, Internal Medicine, 2017
  • Internship: Yale New Haven Hospital, Internal Medicine, 2014
  • Medical Education: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2013

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2020
  • Nephrology: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2019
  • Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2016

Insurance

Search plans
  • Aetna
  • Beech Street
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
  • Cigna
  • Commonwealth Care Alliance
  • Coventry
  • Fallon Health
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Humana
  • Mass General Brigham Health Plan
  • MassHealth
  • Medicaid ME
  • Medicare
  • Multiplan
  • Railroad Medicare
  • Senior Whole Health
  • TriCare
  • Tufts Health Plan
  • Tufts Medicare Preferred
  • United Health Care
  • Wellpoint
  • WellSense