Dr. Nadiesda Costa is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology. She comes to Baltimore from North Carolina where she trained in internal Medicine and Nephrology at East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine. She also completed a master’s degree in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. During her time at the University of Carolina she completed additional training as a transplant nephrologist.

Dr. Costa has joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in October 2012 and is a staff physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center where she attends the general nephrology and kidney transplant services.

Dr. Costa is interested in anemia management post-kidney transplant, prevention of allograft loss and organ allocation policy.

Kidney transplant and allograft rejection prevention and management