
Samantha L Gelfand, MD
Nephrology
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Adults
- Geriatrics
Languages
- Spanish
- Italian
- French
- English
Gender
FemaleAbout 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
- Brigham and Women's Renal Medicine Clinic
- 45 Francis Street, ASB2-2, Boston, MA 02115
- Get Directions
- Phone: 617-732-6383
- Fax: 617-975-0840
- Brigham and Women's KidneyPal Program
- 45 Francis Street, ASB2-2, Boston, MA 02115
- Get Directions
- Phone: 617-732-6383
- Fax: 617-975-0840
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
- 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