Samira Farouk
US transplant nephrologist
Samira Farouk, MD, MS, FASN is a board-certified transplant nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). She teaches medical students, residents, and fellows, and also develops and studies innovations in medical education. Her clinical research interests include the pathogenesis of kidney fibrosis in regards to transplant survival and chronic kidney diseases. Farouk is also cofounder of the free mobile-friendly nephrology teaching tool NephSIM, Associate Program Director of the Nephrology Fellowship at ISMMS, and Director of Mentoring and Trainee Engagement of KIDNEYcon.
Early life and education
Farouk is originally from New Jersey. She received multiple scholarships and awards by the time she graduated from Cherry Hill High School East in 2003 as Valedictorian, including the Edward J. Bloustein Scholarship, Robert C. Byrd Scholarship and the NSJIAA athlete award. Farouk then attended Princeton University where she graduated with a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering and also obtained a certificate in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Culture in 2007.
Farouk went on to earn her Medical Degree (M.D.) from Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2012 with a Distinction in Research. In 2015, she finished her internship and internal medicine residency at ISMMS in New York City. During her time at Rutgers, she had planned to go into cardiology, but gained a passion for nephrology after working with nephrology mentors and treating patients with kidney disease during her residency.
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