Brad Rovin

Dr. Brad H. Rovin, MD, FACP, FASN is Professor of Medicine and Pathology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Director of the Division of Nephrology, and has been the Director of the Fellowship Program in Nephrology at Ohio State for the last 6 years. He has recently been named Vice Chairman of Research for Internal Medicine.  Dr. Rovin has been at Ohio State University for 19 years, and has been recognized by Best Doctors® for his work in the area of glomerular diseases.
Dr. Rovin received his bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Northwestern University, followed by his doctor of medicine from the University Of Illinois College Of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, and a fellowship in nephrology at Washington University.
Dr. Rovin’s research interests include the pathogenesis of kidney inflammation. He has studied the molecular regulation and expression of chemokines in the kidney during glomerulonephritis. He has applied these findings to the study of kidney injury in patients with lupus nephritis. He and his colleagues at Ohio State have followed a large cohort of SLE patients prospectively in the Ohio SLE Study, and have investigated the genetic and environmental factors responsible for lupus flares. His current research focuses on biomarker discovery in an effort to predict future renal lupus flares and initiate treatment earlier to avoid permanent kidney damage. He is also involved in most of the major clinical trials testing new therapies for SLE nephritis.