Managing and Preventing Diabetes After an Organ Transplant

Learn about the risk factors for posttransplant diabetes mellitus, and how health care professionals can help patients manage it and prevent complications.

Maria Paula Martinez-Cantarin

MD

Dr. Martinez-Cantarin is a board-certified nephrologist and an associate professor of nephrology at Thomas Jefferson University. She researches kidney failure and metabolic changes, especially in the fat tissue of patients who received a kidney transplant. An important part of her research focuses on posttransplant diabetes mellitus and hormonal and inflammatory changes.