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Christina Mariyam Joy MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Nephrology

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Froedtert Hospital
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Email: cmariyamjoy@mcw.edu

EDUCATION:
08/15/2005 - 11/10/2011 MBBS, Medical College, Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/01/2015 - 06/30/2018 Residency - Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, St. Joseph's University Medical Center, 703 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07503
07/01/2018 - 06/30/2020 Fellowship, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/ Washington University in St. Louis, 660 S. Euclid Ave. CB 8126, St Louis, MO 63110
2022 - 2023 Virtual Glomerular Disease Fellowship - GlomCon

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
02/01/2022 - Present Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
07/01/2017 - 06/30/2018 Associate Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, 703 Main St, Paterson, NJ 07503

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
03/01/2021 - 12/31/2021 Consultant Nephrologist, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital, 601 S 8th St, Griffin, GA 30224
05/01/2021 - 12/31/2021 Consultant Nephrologist, Internal Medicine, Nephrologist, Piedmont Henry Hospital, 1133 Eagles Landing Pkwy, Stockbridge, GA 30281
02/01/2022 - Present Staff Nephrologist, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
Internal Medicine
08/20/2018
2028
Nephrology
11/18/2020
2030
   
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2009 All-Kerala Surgery Quiz competition - 3rd position, Medical College, Thrissur/ Calicut University
2010 Sri V. Padmanabhan Memorial Gold medal for Surgery , Medical College, Trivandrum/ Kerala University
2018 Best Outgoing Resident , St. Joseph's University Medical Center/ New York Medical College
2023 - 2024 MCW'S Outstanding Medical Student Teachers 2023-2024 : Renal, Medical College of Wisconsin
2024 Excellence in Mentorship and Education in Nephrology - Best teacher award, Medical college of Wisconsin

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2012 - Present American College of Physicians
2018 - Present American Society of Nephrology

EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Ad-Hoc Reviewer
04/29/2022 - 05/03/2022 Peer reviewer, Cureus 14(5): e24782. doi:10.7759/cureus.24782

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
Local
Christina Mariyam Joy, "Climate Change & Kidney Health - an emerging bidirectional relationship: A nephrologist Perspective”, 1376th Meeting of the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine, University Club of Milwaukee; Banquet Hall. 924 East Wells, Milwaukee, WI 53202, 03/21/2023
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Mariyam Joy C, Ravikumar A, Ittyamma L, Drug Compliance in Hypertension (Oral Presentation), 2nd National Conference on Student Medical Research 2009, Trivandrum, India, 2009
Elshimy G, Mariyam Joy C, Mariano V, Kaur P, Singhal M, Are Urinalysis used inappropriately in the diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections? (Poster), ID Week 2017, San Diego, CA, 2017
Elshimy G, Mariyam Joy C, Gibiezaite S, Case report of sudden onset of hypoglycemia post fluid resuscitation in diabetic ketoacidosis in a patient with type 2 diabetes on Dapagliflozin without prior Insulin use. (Poster), Endocrine Society Meeting 2018, Chicago, IL, 2018
Mariyam Joy C, Li T, Vijayan A, Renal manifestations of Bartonella Infection- a case series (Poster), ASN Kidney Week 2019, Washington DC, 2019
Aniesh Bobba , Karthik Gangu , Ellil O. Krishnaraju , Christina Mariyam Joy, Effects of Obesity on Pheresis Outcomes, ASN Kidney Week 2022, Orlando, FL, 2022
Aisha Batool, Christina Mariam Joy, Kristin Gajewski, Alexander Gallan, Minimal Change Disease(podocytopathy) caused by Alectinib, ​ never reported side effect of a novel agent.​, NKF Spring Clinical Meetings 2023, Austin, TX, 2023
Aisha Batool, Kristin Gajewski, Alexander Gallan, Christina Mariyam Joy, A unique and challenging case of Light Chain Nephropathy with direct plasma cell infiltration of renal tissue., NKF Spring Clinical Meetings 2023, Austin, TX, 2023
Buckley Fecther, Aisha Batool, Carl Dernell, Alexander Gallan, Christina Mariyam Joy, Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease overlap with pauci-immune glomerulonephritis, Temporal occurrence at a single center, ASN- Kidney Week 2023, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Sirisha Gudlawar, Christina Mariyam Joy, Paul Hanna, Alexander Gallan, A rare case of Karyomegalic Interstitial Nephritis in a patient treated with Ifosphamide, ASN - Kidney Week 2023, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Aisha Batool, Buckley Fechter, Christina Mariam Joy, Alexander Gallan, Prolonged Bile Cast Nephropathy Following Orthotopic Liver Transplant, a diagnostic and management challenge., NKF Spring Clinical Meetings 2023, Austin, TX, 2023
Aisha Batool, Christina Mariam Joy, Kristin Gajewski, Alexander Gallan, A Unique case of Membranous Nephropathy and Proteinuria in a patient with Common Variable Immunodeficiency Syndrome., NKF Spring Clinical Meetings 2023, Austin, TX, 2023
 

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Medical College of Wisconsin
08/2023 - Present Member, Immunotherapy Toxicity Group, Medical College of Wisconsin
06/01/2025 - Present Member, Program evaluation committee, Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Hospital
10/21/2010 - 11/10/2011 Treasurer, House Surgeons Association, Medical College, Trivandrum
07/01/2015 - 06/30/2018 Executive member, ACGME Residency Program evaluation committee, Internal Medicine, St. Joseph's University Medical Center, New York Medical College, Paterson, NJ
07/01/2015 - 06/30/2016 Member, Hospital Restraint Committee, Internal Medicine, St. Joseph's University Medical Center, New York Medical College, Paterson, NJ
07/01/2017 - 06/30/2018 Member, Hospital Quality Improvement and peer review committee in Diabetes mellitus, Internal Medicine, St. Joseph's University Medical Center, New York Medical College, Paterson, NJ
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Medical Student Education
10/28/2022 Renal Unit M2: Vascular and Chronic Kidney Disease
11/01/2022 Renal Pharmacology - Transplant Immunosuppression
03/22/2024 M1 Renal Fusion - Weekly Summation & PBD 2 Debrief - Hyponatremia
2024 MCW Fusion Renal Block: Chronic Kidney disease
2024 MCW Fusion Renal Block: Vascular Diseases of the Kidney
2025 MCW Fusion Renal Block: Assessment of renal function
 
Resident and Fellow Education
07/2022 Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
03/24/2023 IgA vasculitis & IgA Nephropathy
04/28/2023 Magnesium Homeostasis & Disorders of Magnesium handling
07/2023 Introduction to Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
03/2024 Thrombotic microangiopathy and atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
03/2024 Complement disorders - aHUS/ C3 glomerulopathy
04/19/2024 Calcium, Phosphorus and Magnesium metabolism
05/24/2024 IgAN and IgAV -And updates on emerging therapeutics.
05/31/2024 RPGN - ANCA associated vasculitis, anti-GBM disease
12/18/2024 Understanding Diabetic Nephropathy
02/26/2025 Renal occlusive vascular disorders– Ischemic Nephropathy
03/11/2025 Mineral Bone disease - calcium and phosphorus metabolism
03/18/2025 Changing treatment landscape of Primary IgA Nephropathy: Change, Change & more Change
05/07/2025 Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care
06/03/2025 Overview of glomerular diseases
 
Continuing Medical Education
09/06/2022 Kidneys & The ever-changing World
11/11/2022 Medicine Grand Rounds - Managing Kidney Disease in a Shifting Environmental Landscape
03/26/2024 Management of Chronic kidney disease- KDIGO 2024 updates in the management of CKD, Lupus Nephritis and ANCA-associated vasculitis
 
Nursing Student Education
06/23/2022 A Basic Introduction to Proteinuria: Nephrology Lunch Talk for Advanced Practice Providers
06/01/2023 The Pregnant Kidneys- Pathophysiology of renal disease in pregnancy: Nephrology Lunch Talk for Advanced Practice Providers
08/22/2024 Renal tubular acidosis: Nephrology Chalk Talk for Advanced Practice Providers
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Medical Student Education
2018 - 2019 Washington University in St. Louis, Renal pathophysiology curriculum - Acid-base balance, ion channels and diuretics
 
Resident and Fellow Education
2016 St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, Morbidity and Mortality conference: Acute lactic acidosis
2017 St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, Medicine Grand round: Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis: anti-GBM disease
2020 Washington University in Louis School of Medicine, Grand rounds: As the World heats up- New challenges in Nephrology
01/19/2023 GlomCon: Vitrual Glomerular disease fellowship, IgA Nephropathy: Overview & New therapeutics
 
Nursing Student Education
11/13/2024 Froedtert Hospital, Chalk talk to Clinical Nursing Staff: Basic Introduction to autoimmunity and Lupus Nephritis
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. ElShimy G, Mariyam Joy C, Berlin F, Lashin W. Intracranial Hemorrhage Complicating Herpes Simplex Encephalitis on Antiviral Therapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Case Rep Infect Dis. 2017;2017:6038146. PMCID: PMC5625746
2. Molnar MZ, Bhalla A, Azhar A, Tsujita M, Talwar M, Balaraman V, Sodhi A, Kadaria D, Eason JD, Hayek SS, Coca SG, Shaefi S, Neyra JA, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Kovesdy CP, STOP-COVID Investigators. Outcomes of critically ill solid organ transplant patients with COVID-19 in the United States. Am J Transplant. 2020 Nov;20(11):3061-3071. PMCID: PMC7460925
3. Hayek SS, Brenner SK, Azam TU, Shadid HR, Anderson E, Berlin H, Pan M, Meloche C, Feroz R, O'Hayer P, Kaakati R, Bitar A, Padalia K, Perry D, Blakely P, Gupta S, Shaefi S, Srivastava A, Charytan DM, Bansal A, Mallappallil M, Melamed ML, Shehata AM, Sunderram J, Mathews KS, Sutherland AK, Nallamothu BK, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. In-hospital cardiac arrest in critically ill patients with covid-19: multicenter cohort study. BMJ. 2020 Sep 30;371:m3513. PMCID: PMC7525342
4. Gupta S, Wang W, Hayek SS, Chan L, Mathews KS, Melamed ML, Brenner SK, Leonberg-Yoo A, Schenck EJ, Radbel J, Reiser J, Bansal A, Srivastava A, Zhou Y, Finkel D, Green A, Mallappallil M, Faugno AJ, Zhang J, Velez JCQ, Shaefi S, Parikh CR, Charytan DM, Athavale AM, Friedman AN, Redfern RE, Short SAP, Correa S, Pokharel KK, Admon AJ, Donnelly JP, Gershengorn HB, Douin DJ, Semler MW, Hernán MA, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Association Between Early Treatment With Tocilizumab and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Jan 01;181(1):41-51. PMCID: PMC7577201
5. Al-Samkari H, Gupta S, Leaf RK, Wang W, Rosovsky RP, Brenner SK, Hayek SS, Berlin H, Kapoor R, Shaefi S, Melamed ML, Sutherland A, Radbel J, Green A, Garibaldi BT, Srivastava A, Leonberg-Yoo A, Shehata AM, Flythe JE, Rashidi A, Goyal N, Chan L, Mathews KS, Hedayati SS, Dy R, Toth-Manikowski SM, Zhang J, Mallappallil M, Redfern RE, Bansal AD, Short SAP, Vangel MG, Admon AJ, Semler MW, Bauer KA, Hernán MA, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Thrombosis, Bleeding, and the Observational Effect of Early Therapeutic Anticoagulation on Survival in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. Ann Intern Med. 2021 May;174(5):622-632. PMCID: PMC7863679
6. Short SAP, Gupta S, Brenner SK, Hayek SS, Srivastava A, Shaefi S, Singh H, Wu B, Bagchi A, Al-Samkari H, Dy R, Wilkinson K, Zakai NA, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. d-dimer and Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019. Crit Care Med. 2021 May 01;49(5):e500-e511. PMCID: PMC8275993
7. Churpek MM, Gupta S, Spicer AB, Parker WF, Fahrenbach J, Brenner SK, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Hospital-Level Variation in Death for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 Aug 15;204(403-411):403-11. PMCID: PMC8480242
8. Friedman AN, Guirguis J, Kapoor R, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Timsina LR, STOP-COVID Investigators. Obesity, inflammatory and thrombotic markers, and major clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19 in the US. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Oct;29(10):1719-1730.
9. Jezmir JL, Bharadwaj M, Chaitoff A, Diephuis B, Crowley CP, Kishore SP, Goralnick E, Merriam LT, Milliken A, Rhee C, Sadovnikoff N, Shah SB, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Feldman WB, Kim EY, STOP-COVID Investigators. Performance of crisis standards of care guidelines in a cohort of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the United States. Cell Rep Med. 2021 Sep 21;2(9):100376. PMCID: PMC8316067
10. Keene AB, Admon AJ, Brenner SK, Gupta S, Lazarous D, Leaf DE, Gershengorn HB, STOP-COVID Investigators. Association of Surge Conditions with Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19. J Intensive Care Med. 2022 Apr;37(4):500-509. PMCID: PMC8926920
11. Hsu CM, Gupta S, Tighiouart H, Goyal N, Faugno AJ, Tariq A, Raichoudhury R, Sharma JH, Meyer L, Kshirsagar RK, Jose A, Leaf DE, Weiner DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Kidney Recovery and Death in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19-Associated Acute Kidney Injury Treated With Dialysis: The STOP-COVID Cohort Study. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 Mar;79(3):404-416.e1. PMCID: PMC8641974
12. Melki G, Alkomos MF, Nanavati S, Kumar V, Mariyam C, Maroules M. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis presenting as acute coronary syndrome. Autops Case Rep. 2021;11:e2021285. PMCID: PMC8214879
13. Vasquez CR, Gupta S, Miano TA, Roche M, Hsu J, Yang W, Holena DN, Reilly JP, Schrauben SJ, Leaf DE, Shashaty MGS, STOP-COVID Investigators. Identification of Distinct Clinical Subphenotypes in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. Chest. 2021 Sep;160(3):929-943. PMCID: PMC8099539
14. Mathews KS, Soh H, Shaefi S, Wang W, Bose S, Coca S, Gupta S, Hayek SS, Srivastava A, Brenner SK, Radbel J, Green A, Sutherland A, Leonberg-Yoo A, Shehata A, Schenck EJ, Short SAP, Hernán MA, Chan L, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Prone Positioning and Survival in Mechanically Ventilated Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019-Related Respiratory Failure. Crit Care Med. 2021 Jul 01;49(7):1026-1037. PMCID: PMC8277560
15. Shaefi S, Brenner SK, Gupta S, O'Gara BP, Krajewski ML, Charytan DM, Chaudhry S, Mirza SH, Peev V, Anderson M, Bansal A, Hayek SS, Srivastava A, Mathews KS, Johns TS, Leonberg-Yoo A, Green A, Arunthamakun J, Wille KM, Shaukat T, Singh H, Admon AJ, Semler MW, Hernán MA, Mueller AL, Wang W, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with severe respiratory failure from COVID-19. Intensive Care Med. 2021 Feb;47(2):208-221. PMCID: PMC7851810
16. Gupta S, Coca SG, Chan L, Melamed ML, Brenner SK, Hayek SS, Sutherland A, Puri S, Srivastava A, Leonberg-Yoo A, Shehata AM, Flythe JE, Rashidi A, Schenck EJ, Goyal N, Hedayati SS, Dy R, Bansal A, Athavale A, Nguyen HB, Vijayan A, Charytan DM, Schulze CE, Joo MJ, Friedman AN, Zhang J, Sosa MA, Judd E, Velez JCQ, Mallappallil M, Redfern RE, Bansal AD, Neyra JA, Liu KD, Renaghan AD, Christov M, Molnar MZ, Sharma S, Kamal O, Boateng JO, Short SAP, Admon AJ, Sise ME, Wang W, Parikh CR, Leaf DE, and the STOP-COVID Investigators. AKI Treated with Renal Replacement Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Jan;32(1):161-176. PMCID: PMC7894677
17. Gupta S, Hayek SS, Wang W, Chan L, Mathews KS, Melamed ML, Brenner SK, Leonberg-Yoo A, Schenck EJ, Radbel J, Reiser J, Bansal A, Srivastava A, Zhou Y, Sutherland A, Green A, Shehata AM, Goyal N, Vijayan A, Velez JCQ, Shaefi S, Parikh CR, Arunthamakun J, Athavale AM, Friedman AN, Short SAP, Kibbelaar ZA, Abu Omar S, Admon AJ, Donnelly JP, Gershengorn HB, Hernán MA, Semler MW, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Factors Associated With Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the US. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Nov 01;180(11):1436-1447. PMCID: PMC7364338
18. Flythe JE, Assimon MM, Tugman MJ, Chang EH, Gupta S, Shah J, Sosa MA, Renaghan AD, Melamed ML, Wilson FP, Neyra JA, Rashidi A, Boyle SM, Anand S, Christov M, Thomas LF, Edmonston D, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Characteristics and Outcomes of Individuals With Pre-existing Kidney Disease and COVID-19 Admitted to Intensive Care Units in the United States. Am J Kidney Dis. 2021 Feb;77(2):190-203.e1. PMCID: PMC7501875
19. Churpek MM, Gupta S, Spicer AB, Hayek SS, Srivastava A, Chan L, Melamed ML, Brenner SK, Radbel J, Madhani-Lovely F, Bhatraju PK, Bansal A, Green A, Goyal N, Shaefi S, Parikh CR, Semler MW, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Machine Learning Prediction of Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019. Crit Care Explor. 2021 Aug;3(8):e0515. PMCID: PMC8378790
20. Ricardo AC, Chen J, Toth-Manikowski SM, Meza N, Joo M, Gupta S, Lazarous DG, Leaf DE, Lash JP, STOP-COVID Investigators. Hispanic ethnicity and mortality among critically ill patients with COVID-19. PLoS One. 2022;17(5):e0268022. PMCID: PMC9116663
21. Marklin GF, Ewald L, Klinkenberg WD, Joy CM, Bander SJ, Rothstein M. The benefits of initiating continuous renal replacement therapy after brain death in organ donors with oligoanuric acute kidney injury. Clin Transplant. 2022 Sep;36(9):e14764.
22. Bhasin-Chhabra B, Joy CM, Gallan AJ. Checkpoint inhibitor-associated acute kidney injury: A strong case for a kidney biopsy. Clin Nephrol. 2023 Jan;99(1):49-50.
23. Sunderraj A, Cho C, Cai X, Gupta S, Mehta R, Isakova T, Leaf DE, Srivastava A, STOP-COVID Investigators. Modulation of the Association Between Age and Death by Risk Factor Burden in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. Crit Care Explor. 2022 Sep;4(9):e0755. PMCID: PMC9426819
24. Vasbinder A, Meloche C, Azam TU, Anderson E, Catalan T, Shadid H, Berlin H, Pan M, O'Hayer P, Padalia K, Blakely P, Khaleel I, Michaud E, Huang Y, Zhao L, Pop-Busui R, Gupta S, Eagle K, Leaf DE, Hayek SS, STOP-COVID Investigators‡. Relationship Between Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease and Death and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2022 Oct;15(10):e008942. PMCID: PMC9575399
25. Green A, Rachoin JS, Schorr C, Dellinger P, Casey JD, Park I, Gupta S, Baron RM, Shaefi S, Hunter K, Leaf DE, STOP-COVID Investigators. Timing of invasive mechanical ventilation and death in critically ill adults with COVID-19: A multicenter cohort study. PLoS One. 2023;18(6):e0285748. PMCID: PMC10306211
 
Books, Chapters, and Reviews
1. Christina Mariyam Joy, Anitha Vijayan. Miscellaneous Etiologies of Acute Kidney Injury Evidence‐Based Nephrology. .
2. Tingting Li, Christina Mariyam Joy. Goodpasture disease British Medical Journal - Best Practice. .
3. Anna Gaddy, Christina Mariyam Joy, Aisha Batool: Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis- Medscape Drugs & Diseases
4. Dawn Wolfgram, Christina Mariyam Joy: Kidney Disease in the Elderly- The Elderly Patient with Kidney Disease: Overview and Evaluation
 
Peer Reviewed Educational Products
1. GlomCon eBook- GlomPedia: Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibody- Associated Vasculitis Christina Mariyam Joy, Arun Rajasekaran, Paolo Nikolai So, Tiffany Caza, Geetha Duvuru