Email

vangala@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Medicine
Nephrology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Staff Nephrologist

Medicine
Nephrology & Solid Organ Transplant
Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Houston, Texas United States

Education

BA from University of Pennsylvania

05/2008 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States

MD from Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine

05/2012 - College Station, Texas United States

Residency at Temple University

06/2015 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States

Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2017 - Houston, Texas United States

Research Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2018 - Houston, Texas United States

MS from Baylor College of Medicine

08/2018 - Houston, Texas United States

Certifications

Nephrology

American Board of Internal Medicine

Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine

Professional Interests

• Critical Care Nephrology
• Mineral Bone Disorder
• Transplant
• Clinical Epidemiology
• Telehealth
• Mesoamerican Nephropathy

Websites

Selected Publications

• Vangala C, Niu J, Montez-Rath ME, Yan J, Navaneethan SD, Naik AD, Winkelmayer WC "Hip Fracture Risk Among Hemodialysis-Dependent Patients Prescribed Opioids and Gabapentinoids." JASN. 2020 Jun;31(6):1325-1334. Pubmed PMID: 32371535
• Vangala C, Pan J, Cotton R, Ramanathan V "Mineral and Bone Disorders after Kidney Transplantation." Front Med. 2018 Jul;5:211. Pubmed PMID: 30109232
• Vangala C, Winkelmayer WC "Heterogeneity in Outcomes Among β-Blockers Elucidated by Intradialytic Data." 2018 Sep;72(3):318-321.
• Fischer RSB, Vangala C, Truong L, Mandayam S, Chavarria D, Granera Llanes OM, Fonseca Laguna MU, Guerra Baez A, Garcia F, García-Trabanino R, Murray KO "Early detection of acute tubulointerstitial nephritis in the genesis of Mesoamerican nephropathy." Kidney Int. 2018 Mar;93(3):681-690. Pubmed PMID: 29162294