Hala Kilani, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Nephrology
Division Head, Nephrology
Program Director, Fellowship in Nephrology
Dr. Hala Kilani is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine and a practicing nephrologist in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, at the LAU Medical Center-Rizk Hospital. She has a special interest in kidney transplantation and all aspects of nephrology, including chronic kidney disease, its complications, and therapeutic modalities. Her expertise spans hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, electrolyte disturbances, glomerular diseases, and acute kidney injury.
Dr. Kilani has been a member of the School of Medicine faculty since 2014 and served as Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program during the 2017-2018 academic year.
She firmly believes that physicians play a vital role in society, particularly in patient education, as awareness is key to disease prevention.
- Al Haddad N, Costanian C, Zibara V, Bilen Y, Kilani H, Tohme F, Bahous SA. The association between sleep disturbances and blood pressure variability: a review of the literature. J Clin Sleep Med. (2023 Aug) 19(8):1533-1544.
- Zibara V, Costanian C, Al Haddad N, Kilani H, Tohme F, Aoun Bahous S. Epidemiology and management of hypertension among refugees in the Middle East: a review of the literature. J Hum Hypertens. (2021 Aug) 35(8):657-666.
- Ballesté C, Valero R, Istrate M, Peralta P, Mosharafa AA, Morsy AA, Bakr MA, Kamal Abdelkader AI, Sheashaa H, Juvelekian GS, Khachab M, Ahdab R, Faour W, Tahiri Jouti N, Benghanem Gharbi M, Bayahia R, Dakka T, Desatnik P, Jambou P, Pisarski P, Samson-Himmelstjerna P, Lücking KM, Manyalich M; EMPODaT Consortium. Design and implementation of the European-Mediterranean Postgraduate Programme on Organ Donation and Transplantation (EMPODaT) for Middle East/North Africa countries. Transpl Int. (2021 Aug) 34(8):1553-1565.
- Kidney transplantation
- Chronic kidney disease and treatment modalities: hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis
- Glomerular diseases
- Clinical nephrology
- Teaching and Research
- B.S. in biology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- M.D. degree, Lebanese University
- Fellowship in Nephrology, Lebanese University
- Fellowship in Nephrology, Universite Claude-Bernard, Lyon, France
- Lebanese Society of Nephrology
Acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, clinical nephrology, glomerular diseases, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, kidney transplantation, kidney failure