Dr. Bismah Irfan, MD is a board certified nephrologist based in Houston. Her Pennsylvania medical license is still being processed. Until it is issued, Pennsylvania residents can book a consultation with her as an educational second opinion.
A doctor can give personal medical advice only to people in the states where she holds a license. Dr. Irfan's Pennsylvania license is pending, so she can't take on Pennsylvania residents as her patients yet.
What is open now is her $1,500 consultation, as an educational second opinion. In her words:
“Consults with patients outside my licensed states are an educational second opinion; ongoing care happens in Houston or once I'm licensed in your state.”
We don't have a date for the license yet: the state medical board sets its own pace. When it comes through, this page will say so, and ongoing care will open for Pennsylvania the same way it works in the states where she is licensed now.
This page is for people in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Harrisburg and the rest of Pennsylvania.
These are education, not medical care. Keep working with your own doctors on your treatment.
Seven questions, about 90 seconds. It shows where your kidneys may be asking for support first. Free.
A free 70-minute teaching session with Dr. Irfan on the six places kidney decline tends to begin. It is general education, not a personal consultation.
Her 28-day kidney education program for stages 1 through 4, with daily lessons and three months of community access. Open wherever you live.
Or start with the blog: how electrolytes and blood pressure pull on each other.
Functional medicine gets a lot of loose claims attached to it. This is the conventional training underneath it.
Internal Medicine and Nephrology, both through the American Board of Internal Medicine, plus Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM).
Nephrology fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois.
Former assistant professor at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
Trained through the Institute for Functional Medicine after her own rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, and built the HEAL protocol around what she found.
Chronic kidney disease, stages 1 to 5 · Diabetic kidney disease · High blood pressure and the kidneys · Polycystic kidney disease · Lupus nephritis · Acute kidney injury and recovery
“You are a nephrologist and a functional medicine doctor, which we had been looking for. We did not find one that combines both.”
Patient, name withheld
From patients in states where Dr. Irfan is licensed, published with names removed for privacy. Individual results vary. More patient stories.
Not as her patient yet: her Pennsylvania medical license is still pending. You can book her $1,500 consultation as an educational second opinion. Ongoing care happens in Houston or once she is licensed in Pennsylvania. The kidney quiz, the Clarity Session and Kidney Foundations are open to you too.
Once the Pennsylvania license is issued. The timing is up to the state medical board, so we can't give you a date. This page will be updated when it happens.
Yes. The quiz and the Clarity Session are free, and Kidney Foundations, her 28-day kidney education program, is open wherever you live. None of these is personal medical advice, so keep working with your own doctors on your care.
Dr. Bismah Irfan, MD. She is board certified in both internal medicine and nephrology through the American Board of Internal Medicine, completed her nephrology fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and previously taught nephrology as an assistant professor at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
Seven questions, about 90 seconds, free. A simple first step while the Pennsylvania license is pending. For a consultation as an educational second opinion, start with the qualification form.