Munis Mattu, MD
Munis Mattu, MD, joined Kansas City Kidney Consultants in August 2023. Dr. Mattu trained in transplant nephrology at Washington University Medical Center and Barnes-Jewish Hospital having one of the largest and most respected kidney and kidney/pancreas transplant programs in the United States. “It was a very rewarding and enriching time in the WashU Kidney and Pancreas transplant program because of its vast experience in treating a diverse spectrum of multi-solid organ transplant patients,” he says.
He has long equated the wonders of nature with the wonders of transplantation “It’s akin to the sensitive care and nurture transplant patients need while preserving the biome.”
Dr. Mattu served as medical co-director of the Kidney Pancreas Program at the Avera Transplant Institute, located at Avera McKennan Hospital and the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, where he also served as a clinical associate professor.
“It is a very rewarding and enriching experience to manage care and treatment of a diverse spectrum of multi-solid organ transplant patients and to be able to optimize kidney and pancreas transplant care.” He earned his medical degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in Belgaum, India, and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Buffalo in New York and a fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Kansas School Of Medicine in Kansas City. He went on to serve as a staff nephrologist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City from 2014 to 2017. In addition to nephrology training, Dr. Mattu also has three years of emergency medicine clinical experience while serving in the Emergency Department of Riyadh Central Hospital, a Level I trauma center in Saudi Arabia and two years of clinical Nephrology experience at Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital, considered one of the most advanced centers in the Middle East. In addition to enjoying gardening, he spends time with his wife and his two children, whenever they are home from college.
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