Abhilash Koratala

Abhilash Koratala, MD, FASN

Dr. Abhilash Koratala is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of Clinical Imaging for Nephrology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is an internationally acclaimed expert in point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS), particularly bedside hemodynamic assessment using Doppler techniques.

He developed well-structured POCUS curricula for nephrology trainees, published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases and Kidney360.

In addition, Dr. Koratala promotes POCUS on online platforms such as twitter (@NephroP – has over 32K followers to date) and authors a series of posts for a feature called Focus on POCUN on the Renal Fellow Network, a nephrology blog that partners with the American Society of Nephrology (ASN).

His online POCUS teaching tool NephroPOCUS.com has won the ASN innovations in kidney education award in 2020. Apart from POCUS, he enjoys all aspects of nephrology and has authored over 170 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals to date.