Zubin J. Modi, MD

Dr. Zubin Modi is health services researcher and practicing pediatric nephrologist. He is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Pediatrics and a researcher at the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center. He completed his fellowship training in pediatric nephrology at the University of Michigan. During his fellowship training, he furthered his research training as a scholar at the Institute for Health Policy and Innovation at University of Michigan and completed a master’s degree in Health and Health Care Research. Prior to that he completed his general pediatrics residence at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. He obtained his M.D. at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. 

Dr. Modi's research interests include epidemiology, population-based outcomes, and health care delivery for children with, and at risk for, chronic kidney disease. He is also interested in the impact of health policy on chronically ill children. His current work is focused on health care utilization of children with chronic kidney disease and development of methods identifying pediatric CKD in large data sets. Clinically, Dr. Modi has interests in chronic kidney disease and co-leads an international referral program for pediatric renovascular hypertension.

Education

B.A., Neuroscience, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
M.D., Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI, 2012
M.S., Health and Health Care Research, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, Ann Arbor, MI, 2019