Duncan Neuhauser Professor of Community Improvement
Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Case Western Reserve University
Co-Medical Director, City of Cleveland Department of Public Health
Associate Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine
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Research Interests:
Adequacy of hemodialysis, Nutrition in renal failure, Access to kidney transplantation, Identifying and overcoming barriers to quality of care, Health disparities

Publications:
Sarathy S, Sullivan C, Leon JB, Sehgal AR.  Fast food, phosphorus containing additives, and the renal diet.  Journal of Renal Nutrition.  In press.

Sehgal AR, Sullivan C, Leon JB, Bialostosky K.  Public health approach to addressing hyperphosphatemia among dialysis patients.  Journal of Renal Nutrition.  2008; 18:256-261.

Steiber A, Leon J, Secker D, McCarthy M, McCann L, Serra M, Sehgal A, Kalantar-Zadeh K.  A multicenter study of the validity and reliability of subjective global assessment in the hemodialysis population.  Journal of Renal Nutrition.  2007; 17:336-342.

Butt S, Leon JB, David CL, Chang H, Sidhu S, Sehgal AR.  The prevalence and nutritional implications of fast food consumption among hemodialysis patients.  Journal of Renal Nutrition.  2007; 17:264-268.

Pandey P, Sehgal AR, Riboud M, Levine D, Goyal M.  Informing rural populations in India improves delivery of entitled health and social services: a randomized controlled trial.  Journal of the American Medical Association.  2007; 298:1867-1875.

Presentations:
Minority Health Month Panel Discussion. City Hall, Cleveland, Ohio.  April 4, 2008.

"Health disparities." Medical grand rounds, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. September 26, 2007.

"Access to kidney transplantation." Keynote Speaker, Annual Investigators Meeting on Organ Donation Among Minorities, National Institutes of Health, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii. March 1, 2007.