Medical Advisory Board Distinguished Service Award

Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH


Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Bronx VA


This award has been established to recognize an individual for their educational activities and community service in promoting the mission of the National Kidney Foundation on a local level. 

Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH, is assistant professor in the Institute for Health Equity Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology, and a general nephrologist who cares for veterans at the James J Peters VA in the Bronx. She received a BA in public policy and a health policy certificate from Duke University in 2006, where she was a Robertson scholar. Dr. Mohottige then earned an MPH in health behavior/health education from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and a medical degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, followed by internal medicine/chief residency and nephrology training at Duke University.


Dr. Mohottige engages in patient- and community-centered, inequity-focused research around the impact of sociostructural factors and racialized medicine on kidney health and kidney transplantation. As part of her work, she has also advocated for inclusive care practices for the LGBTQ+ community.  Dr. Mohottige is a member of the National Kidney Foundation Health Equity Taskforce, the National Kidney Foundation Transplant Advisory Committee, the New York City Coalition to end Racism in Clinical Algorithms, and the End-Stage Renal Disease National Coordinating Center Health Equity Committee.