About me
Sonika Puri, MD, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained transplant nephrologist with more than 10 years’ experience in the field. She specializes in pre- and post-operative management for people undergoing kidney and pancreas transplantation, as well as the evaluation of living kidney donors.
Dr. Puri joins the team as the medical director of the Living Donor Kidney Program. She is passionate about improving access to life-saving living donation for patients with end stage renal disease.
Dr. Puri is an active researcher and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals on improving outcomes in kidney and pancreas transplantation, improving access to kidney donation and transplantation, and organ preservation. She is a member of the American Society of Nephrology, Lipid Association of India, and a Fellow of American Society of Nephrology. She earned her medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College at Delhi University in New Delhi, India and completed her internship and residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. She also completed two fellowships—one in nephrology at NYU Langone Medical Center and NYU School of Medicine in New York and one in transplant nephrology at University of California in San Francisco.
Dr. Puri works with each patient to help them achieve the best possible outcome from kidney and pancreas transplantation. In addition to always taking the time to listen to her patients, address their concerns, and educate them about their condition and treatment options, she also helps patients seek living kidney donors.
Dr. Puri is fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
When she’s not working, Dr. Puri enjoys reading, hiking with her family, and baking.
Clinical areas of focus
- Dopamine Therapy
- Graft Rejection Prevention
- Heart Transplant
- Lung Transplant
- Pancreas Transplant Rejection Treatment
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acquired Absence Of Organs
- Ascites
- Benign Neoplasm Of Digestive System
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Bone Marrow Transplant Graft Failure
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Complications Of Kidney Transplant
- Complications Of Transplanted Organs And Tissue
- Corneal Diseases
- Corneal Transplant
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cytomegaloviral (CMV) Infection
- Disorders Involving The Immune Mechanism
- Disorders Of Fluid, Electrolyte And Acid
- Donors Of Organs And Tissues
- Family History Of Malignant Neoplasm
- Heart Transplant Surgery
- Immunodeficiencies
- Infertility
- Intestinal Stenosis
- Intrahepatic Bile Ducts Cancer
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Liver Transplantation
- Long Term Drug Therapy
- Lung Transplant Complications
- Lung Transplant Rejection
- Obstructive And Reflux Uropathy
- Organ Donor Matching
- Polycystic Liver Disease
- Renal Artery Thrombosis
- Small Intestine Diseases
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Venous Embolism
Procedures I perform
- Ablative Therapy
- Antiangiogenic Therapy
- Anxiety Management
- Biomicroscopy
- Blood Type Incompatible Transplant
- Blood Type Testing
- Cardiac Gene Expression
- Cardiovascular Fluorescence Imaging
- Cardiovascular Personalized Medicine
- Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
- Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection
- Clinical Trials
- Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
- Corneal Transplantation
- Cryopreservation Of Oocytes
- Deceased Donor Transplant
- Developmental Biology
- Dialysis
- Domino Liver Transplantation
- Domino Transplantation
- Dopamine Therapy
- Electrical Impedance Tomography
- Endovascular Surgery
- Epigenomic Medicine
- Etoposide Therapy
- Ex Vivo Imaging
- Face Transplant
- Flap Surgery
- Functional Mri
- Gastric Surgery
- Gastrointestinal Therapy
- Genitourinary Fistula Treatment
- Genitourinary Surgery
- Geriatric Surgery
- Graft Rejection Prevention
- Graft Survival Analysis
- Hair Transplant
- Heart Transplant
- Heart-Liver Transplant
- Hepatitis E Treatment
- Histocompatibility Testing
- Histology Services
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Immunoglobulin Administration
- Infection Management
- Inpatient Palliative Care
- Islet Xenotransplant
- Kidney Drainage
- Kidney Function Test
- Kidney Resection
- Kidney Stones Treatment
- Kidney Transplant In Hbv Patients
- Kidney-Pancreas Transplant
- Kinesiology Analysis
- Liquid Biopsy
- Liver Cancer Surgery
- Liver Lobe Transplant
- Liver Paired Donation
- Liver Transplant In Hcv Patients
- Liver Tumor Ablation
- Liver-Kidney Transplant
- Living Donor Transplant
- Lung Transplant
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Mammography
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplant
- Mesenteric Angiography
- Metabolomics
- Minimally Invasive Transplant Surgery
- Multivisceral Transplant
- Nephrectomy
- Nephrological Transplant Surgery
- Nutrition Counseling
- Ocular Coherence Tomography Angiography
- Optical Coherence Tomography
- Optical Projection Tomography
- Orthopedic Physical Therapy
- Ovary Transplant
- Oxidative Stress Analysis
- Pain Medication Management
- Palliative Care
- Pancreas Transplant Rejection Treatment
- Parotid Biopsy
- Patching Therapy
- Pediatric Liver Transplant
- Percutaneous Tumor Chemoembolization
- Pharmacological Treatment Of Hypertension
- Phase Contrast Imaging
- Pioglitazone Therapy
- Protein Expression
- Proteomics Research
- Psychological Counseling For Cancer
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Pulmonological Transplant Surgery
- Purkinje Imaging
- Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping
- Radioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Renal Biopsy
- Retrograde Ureteropyelography For Urinary Tract Imaging
- Robotic Surgery
- Robotic Transplant Surgery
- Short Tau Inversion Recovery Imaging
- Single Molecule Microscopy
- Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
- Single Plane Illumination Microscopy
- Skin Flap Procedure
- Skin Graft
- Small Bowel Transplant
- Social Work Services For Transplant
- Spectral Position Distance Microscopy
- Speech Therapy
- Stereotactic Spinal Procedure
- Steroid Minimization
- Surgical Wound Debridement
- T2 Weighted Imaging
- Tendon Transplantation
- Terahertz Imaging
- Tissue Biopsy
- Tongue Transplant
- Toxicogenomics
- Transcriptomics
- Transplant Bioinformatics
- Transplant Complications Treatment
- Transplant Regenerative Medicine
- Tumor Imaging
- Ultrasound
- Urinary Filtration Performance
- Urological Transplant Surgery
- Vaccinations
- Vascularized Composite Allograft
Practice locations
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3800 Reservoir Rd NW
2 PHC
Washington, DC, 20007
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna Basic
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- IH-PPO
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Network OA
- CIGNA PPO
- Optimum Choice
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- CIGNA EPO
- Choice Fund PPO
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Core Essential (HMO)
- IH-Open HMO Option
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Tricare Reserve Select
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- United Student Resources
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- United Healthcare Choice
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- IH-Indemnity
- HealthyBlue PPO
- First Health PPO
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Choice POS
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- UHC Passport
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Beech Street PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- OA Plus
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- TRICARE East Prime
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- TRICARE for Life East
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- CareFirst NASCO
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- POS OA
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- Employee Health Plan
- IH-HMO
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Medicare Direct
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- TRICARE East Select
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- Aetna Classic 5000
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Blue Choice Advantage
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- CareFirst EPO
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Medicare FFS
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- Navigate
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Aetna HMO
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- HumanaChoice PPO
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- IH-Open POS II
- IH-Network Only Plus
- IH-POS
- IH-EPO Plus
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- HighMark
- CareFirst Administrators
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- IH-Open HMO
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- First Health PPO
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- IH-POS Plus
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Sentara Health
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- Choice POS II
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: UCSF Medical Center (2014)
Fellowship: NYU Grossman School of Medicine (2013)
Residency: University of Connecticut School of Medicine (2011)
Medical School: Maulana Azad Medical College (2007)