Sean Verma, MD

About Sean

Dr. Sean Verma, MD, FASN

Dr. Verma was born and raised in Titusville, Florida and lived locally in Titusville until going to USF for undergraduate. He is excited to return to his hometown to provide excellent nephrology care for the community in which he grew up in. Dr. Verma holds special designation as a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN). FASN is a designation for nephrologists who have demonstrated excellence in their practice in nephrology and is a distinction to those nephrologists with outstanding credentials who have achieved high professional achievement.

Prior to returning to Florida, Dr. Verma worked as an attending nephrologist in Philadelphia where he was also Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and helped to teach medical students, residents, and the next generation of physicians. Dr. Verma has been a frequent presenter at national conferences including the American Society of Nephrology and National Kidney Foundation conferences and has conducted and published papers in numerous areas of nephrology. In his time away from work, he enjoys time with his wife and family, trying new restaurants in the area, traveling, and is an avid basketball and football fan. To learn more about Dr. Verma and the conditions he treats, please visit his website at www.floridaneph.com.

Medical Interests Areas of Interest:

• Hypertension Including Resistant Hypertension
• Nephrolithiasis (Kidney Stones)
• Home Dialysis and In-center Dialysis Therapies
• Chronic Kidney Disease

Research Interests:

PUBLICATIONS

Emmanuel Bassily MD, Cameron Bell MD, Sean Verma MD, Nidhi Patel MD, Aarti Patel MD, Significance of Obstetrical History with Future Cardiovascular Disease, The American Journal of Medicine. May;132(5):567-571.

Verma S, Bassily E, Leighton S, et al. Renal Function and Outcomes With Use of Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation and Inotropes in End-Stage Heart Failure: A Retrospective Single Center Study. J Clin Med Res. 2017;9(7):596-604.

Mirza AS, Verma S, Fu L, Bassil C. Thrombotic Microangiopathy with Granulomatosis Interstitial Nephritis in an Allogenic Bone Marrow Transplant Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. J Hematol. 2017;6(2-3):52-58.

Mirza A-S, Mushtaq S, Reddy R, Moussa M, Bhora C, Kongpakpaisarn K, Verma S, et al. A single-center study of cancer and chemotherapy-induced kidney disease. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2017;35.

Verma S, Khaliqi M, Oller KL. Nutcracker Syndrome and Sickle Cell Trait. J Gen Intern Med. 2017;32(11):1171.

Verma S, Bassily E, Jarmi T. An extreme case of tumoral calcinosis in an end-stage renal disease patient. Kidney Int. 2017;91(4):991.

Bassily E, Verma S, Nanjappa S, Bassily O, Greene J. Rothia mucilaginosa Bacteremia and Subsequent Typhlitis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2017;25(1).

Verma SK, Martin A, Montero JA. Atypical Cat Scratch Disease With Hepatosplenic Involvement. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017;15(1):e5-e6.

Ahmadian A, Verma S, Mundis GM Jr, Oskouian RJ Jr, Smith DA, Uribe JS. Minimally invasive lateral retroperitoneal transpsoas interbody fusion for L4-5 spondylolisthesis: clinical outcomes. J Neurosurg Spine. 2013;19(3):314-320.

POSTERS

Emmanuel Bassily MD, Daniel Mathew MD, Vindya Gunawardena MD, Jibran Khan MD, Sean Verma MD, Chak Sriaroon MD. Sniffles, Hemoptysis, and Headache That Just Would Not Go Away. CHEST Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario. September 2017

Sean Verma MD, Abu-Sayeef Mirza MD, MPH, Claude Bassil MD Thrombotic Microangiopathy in a Hematopoetic Stem Cell Transplant Patient. National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Orlando, Florida. April 2017

Edin Sasic MD, Sean Verma MD, Daniel Poetter MD, Jorge Lamarche MD, Alfredo Peguero MD Unflavored Chewing Tobacco Causing Hypokalemia and Resistant Hypertension. National Kidney Foundation 2017 Spring Clinical Meetings, Orlando, Florida. April 2017

Chandrashekar Bohra MD, Sean Verma MD, Claude Bassil MD, Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induced Acute Kidney Injury in a Patient With Aplastic Anemia. National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Orlando, Florida. April 2017

Sean Verma MD, Emmanuel Bassily MD, Angel Martin MD, Shane Leighton BS, Igor Sunjic MD, Rahul Mhaskar PhD, Tambi Jarmi MD, Claude Bassil MD, Outcomes and Renal Function Following Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in End-Stage Heart Failure. American Medical Association Annual Research Symposium. 2016, Orlando, Florida. Nov 2016

Sean Verma MD, Alfredo Peguero MD, Jorge Lamarche MD, Craig Courville MD, Mohamad Taha, Marina Antar- Shultz MD, Using Ultrasound to Detect Non-Occlusive Mesenteric Ischemia in a Hemodialysis Patient. American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, Chicago, Illinois. Nov 2016

Sean Verma MD, Emmanuel Bassily MD, Claude Bassil MD, Using Steroids for Nephrotic Syndrome in Proliferative Glomerulonephritis with Monoclonal IgG Deposits. American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week , Chicago, Illinois. Nov 2016

Sean Verma MD, Emmanuel Bassily MD, Shane Leighton BS, Igor Sunjic MD, Angel Martin MD, Rahul Mhaskar PhD, Tambi Jarmi MD, Claude Bassil MD, Comparing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation and Inotropes for Renal Function and Outcomes. American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, Chicago, Illinois. Nov 2016

Sean Verma MD, Tambi Jarmi MD, An Extreme Case of Tumoral Calcinosis in End Stage Renal

Disease, American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, Chicago, Illinois. Nov 2016

Sean Verma MD, Emmanuel Bassily MD, Donald Wheeler MD, Tambi Jarmi MD, Disseminated Adenovirus Causing Tubulointerstitial Nephritis in a Renal Allograft Patient, 17^th Annual Southern Hospitalist Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. Oct 2016

Emmanuel Bassily MD, Sean Verma MD, Jaymin Patel MD, Angel Martin MD, Adam Rafi MD, Xavier Prida MD, The Cliché Cardiomyopathy Stays Trendy: Recognizing the Reverse Variety. Florida Medical Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida. July 2016

Sean Verma MD, Alfredo Peguero MD, Jorge Lamarche MD, Craig Courville MD, Mohamad Taha, Marina Antar- Shultz MD, Ultrasonography to Evaluate Pulmonary Edema Resolution with Blood Pressure Control in a Hemodialysis Patient. National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts. April- May 2016

Sean Verma MD, Juliana Gutierez, MD, Jaymin Patel MD, Tess Chase, BS, Christina Eapen, MD, The Milk Man Switches to Skim: Plasma Exchange for Refractory Hypertriglyceridemia. American College of Physicians Florida Chapter Annual Residents & Medical Students Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2016

Nikesh Kapadia MD, Sean Verma MD, Adam Pettigrew MD, Angel Martin MD, Jose Montero

MD, Who Let the Cats Out? Florida Medical Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida,

August 2015

Sean Verma MD, Daniel Poetter MD, Something on My Mind: A Rare Case of White Matter Demyelination. Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. April 2015

Amir Ahmadian MD, Sean Verma BS, Gregory M. Mundis Jr. MD, Rod J. Oskouian Jr. MD,

Donald A. Smith MD, Juan S. Uribe MD, Minimally invasive lateral retroperitoneal transpsoas interbody fusion for L4–5 spondylolisthesis: clinical outcomes. 29^th Annual meeting of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Phoenix, Arizona, March 2013

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, “Disorders of Sodium”
• Penn Nephrology “Grand Rounds: The Nephrologist’s Tour of Mechanical Circulatory Support”
• Penn Nephrology “In Depth Topic Review: Membranous Nephropathy”
• Penn Nephrology, “In Depth Physiology Review: Sodium Handling”
• Penn Nephrology, “The Effect of dry-weight reduction with lung ultrasound guided strategy on ambulatory blood pressure in euvolemic hemodialysis patients”