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Dr. Steven Alexander, MD

Dr. Steven Alexander, MD

Palo Alto, CA

Accepting patients

Affiliated with a Castle Connolly Top Hospital

    Who is Dr. Alexander, Pediatric Nephrologist in Palo Alto, CA?

    Dr. Steven Alexander, MD is a Pediatric Nephrologist, who primarily practices in Palo Alto, CA with 2 additional practice locations. He is board certified. Dr. Alexander completed his residency at Univ Il Coll Of Med, General Surgery. Dr. Alexander is fluent in English, and is currently seeing new patients. Dr. Alexander’s practice accepts Kaiser Permanente, Medicare, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare and other major insurance plans. To book an appointment or to confirm insurance options, please call Dr. Alexander’s office at (650) 497-8000.

    What are Areas of Expertise for Dr. Alexander?

    Dr. Steven Alexander, MD is a highly-rated, board-certified Pediatric Nephrologist known for expertly diagnosing, treating, and managing a wide array of related conditions and procedures. Utilizing the latest medical advancements and evidence-based practices, Dr. Alexander empowers patients to confidently navigate their health journey, specializing in Dialysis Care, Hypertension, Kidney Failure, Nephrotic Syndrome, Transplant Medicine-Kidney, and comprehensive wellness support. Serving the Palo Alto, CA community, Dr. Alexander is dedicated to enhancing lives through expert, patient-centered care.

    Where did Dr. Alexander go to medical school and complete their residency?

    • Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX | BAYLOR COL/MED HSPS, HOUSTON, TX,, Pediatrics | Baylor College of Medicine TX | Texas Children's Hospital - Baylor College of Med

    • Residency: Univ Il Coll Of Med, General Surgery

    • Medical School: University Of Il Coll Of Med- Chicago Il

    Is Dr. Alexander board certified as a Pediatric Nephrologist?

    Yes, Dr. Steven Alexander, MD is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics , American Board of Pediatrics since 1986, American Board of Pediatrics since 1979

    What languages does Dr. Alexander speak?

    Dr. Alexander and their clinical team can communicate with patients in the following languages:

    • English

    What conditions does a Pediatric Nephrologist like Dr. Alexander typically treat?

    As a Pediatric Nephrologist, Dr. Alexander diagnoses, treats, and manages a wide range of conditions. This condition information is derived from anonymized insurance claims and highlights the medical conditions most commonly treated by Dr. Alexander. It provides insight into the doctor’s areas of experience and expertise based on real-world patient encounters from the past two years, updated quarterly. Learn more about our claims-based healthcare methodology here.

    Also known as:

    • Nephrotic Syndrome
    • Kidney Disease
    • Nephrotic Syndrome in Adults
    • Nephrotic Syndrome in Children
    • Kidney Protein Loss Syndrome
    • Proteinuria Syndrome
    • Nephrosis

    ICD-10 Codes:

    • N049: Nephrotic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes

    Also known as:

    • Chronic Kidney Disease, Stage 2 (Mild)
    • End-Stage Kidney Disease
    • Chronic Kidney Disease
    • Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
    • Kidney Failure
    • Helping Your Child Adapt to Life with Chronic Kidney Disease
    • CKD Stage 2
    • Mild Chronic Kidney Disease
    • ESRD
    • End-Stage Renal Failure

    ICD-10 Codes:

    • N182: Chronic kidney disease, stage 2 (mild)
    • N186: End stage renal disease

    Also known as:

    • Acute Kidney Failure
    • Kidney Failure
    • Acute Renal Failure
    • Sudden Kidney Failure

    ICD-10 Codes:

    • N179: Acute kidney failure, unspecified

    Also known as:

    • Kidney Stones
    • Renal Calculi
    • Nephrolithiasis
    • Kidney Calculi

    ICD-10 Codes:

    • N200: Calculus of kidney

    What procedures does a Pediatric Nephrologist like Dr. Alexander typically perform?

    As a Pediatric Nephrologist, procedures performed by Dr. Steven Alexander may include:

    Please contact Dr. Alexander's office directly to confirm care for your specific procedure, for more information, or to schedule a consultation.

    Does Dr. Alexander accept my insurance?

    Dr. Alexander accepts most major insurance plans. Important: Please call our office at (650) 497-8000 before your appointment to verify that your specific plan and network are accepted.

    What insurance plans does Dr. Alexander accept in Palo Alto, CA?

    Dr. Alexander in Palo Alto, CA accepts plans from many carriers. While this list is updated regularly, it is not a guarantee of coverage.

    Top Insurances

    • All Other Third Party

    • Blue Shield of California

    • California Water Service Group

    • Cigna Group

    • CVS Health (formerly Aetna)

    • Kaiser Permanente

    • Santa Cruz County

    • State of California

    • UnitedHealth Group

    • Unknown

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    Where is Dr. Alexander's office located?

    Dr. Steven Alexander's Primary Practice

    725 Welch Rd

    Palo Alto, CA 94304

    (650) 497-8000

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    Dr. Steven Alexander's Practice 2

    300 Pasteur Dr

    Stanford, CA 94305

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    Dr. Steven Alexander's Practice 3

    1900 Garden Rd Ste 130

    Monterey, CA 93940

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    Recognitions

    Awards

    please see cv, multiple

    Publications

    Association between Maintence Fluid Tonicity and Hospital-Acquired Hypotremia.

    , 2013

    AKI in Hospitalized Children: Epidemiology and Clinical Associations in a tiol Cohort.

    , 2013

    Continuous rel replacement therapy in children

    , 2012

    Conversion From Tacrolimus/Mycophenolic Acid to Tacrolimus/Leflunomide to Treat Cutaneous Warts

    , 2012

    Nonrel indications for continuous rel replacement therapy

    , 2012

    Tracking the impact of the tiol Institutes of Health Clinical

    , 2012

    Complement-fixing donor

    , 2012

    End-Stage Rel Disease Due to Lupus Nephritis Among Children in the US, 1995-2006

    , 2011

    Role of Twenty-Four-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children on Dialysis

    , 2011

    Enterococcal peritonitis in children receiving chronic peritoneal dialysis

    , 2010

    Relapsing Peritonitis in Children Who Undergo Chronic Peritoneal Dialysis

    , 2010

    Fluid Overload and Mortality in Children Receiving Continuous Rel Replacement Therapy

    , 2010

    Protein and calorie prescription for children and young adults

    , 2008

    Combined liver-kidney transplantation in children: Indications and outcome

    , 2008

    Acute kidney injury in pediatric stem cell transplant recipients

    , 2008

    Safety and pharmacokinetics of daclizumab in pediatric rel transplant recipients

    , 2008

    Continuous rel replacement therapy

    , 2008

    Worldwide variation of dialysis-associated peritonitis in children

    , 2007

    The effect of vascular access location

    , 2007

    Demographic characteristics of pediatric continuous rel replacement therapy

    , 2007

    Peritonitis in children who receive long-term peritoneal dialysis

    , 2007

    Proteinuria in pediatric rel transplant recipients during the first 60 post-transplant days

    , 2006

    Option of pre-emptive nephrectomy and rel transplantation for Bartter's syndrome

    , 2006

    Clinical review: Altertive vascular access techniques for continuous hemofiltration

    , 2006

    Hemofiltration for cytokine-driven illnesses: The mediator delivery hypothesis

    , 2005

    The intertiol pediatric peritonitis registry

    , 2005

    Safety and pharmacokinetics of ascending single doses of sirolimus (Rapamune (R)

    , 2004

    Hyperhomocysteinemia in pediatric and young adult rel transplant recipients

    , 2004

    The Prospective Pediatric Continuous Rel Replacement Therapy (ppCRRT) registry

    , 2004

    Postdialysis albumin: A better nutrition marker in pediatric hemodialysis patients?

    , 2004

    Continued superior outcomes with modification

    , 2003

    Continuous veno-venous hemofiltration may improve survival from acute respiratory distress syndrome

    , 2003

    Flush before fill in children receiving automated peritoneal dialysis

    , 2003

    Outcome of rel transplantation in adolescents with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

    , 2002

    Unexpectedly high prevalence of posttransplant anemia in pediatric

    , 2002

    Identification of Epstein-Barr virus-specific CD8

    , 2002

    Response to recombint hepatitis B vaccine in children and adolescents with chronic rel failure

    , 2002

    Late post-transplant anemia in adult rel transplant recipients. An under-recognized problem?

    , 2002

    Long-term plasmapheresis and protein A column treatment of recurrent FSGS

    , 2001

    The clinical efficacy of higher hematocrit levels in children with chronic rel insufficiency

    , 2001

    Recurrence of hemolytic uremic syndrome after rel transplantation in children

    , 2001

    Pulse methylprednisolone, cyclosporine

    , 2001

    Loss of living donor rel allograft survival advantage

    , 2001

    Sodium ferric glucote therapy in rel transplant and rel failure patients

    , 2000

    Consensus guidelines for the treatment of peritonitis

    , 2000

    The trials and tribulations of an adolescent patient with end-stage rel disease

    , 2000

    Predictive factors for delayed graft function

    , 1999

    A new, unique and simple method for ureteral implantation in kidney recipients with small

    , 1999

    Chronic dialysis in children

    , 1999

    Optimal care of the pediatric end-stage rel disease patient on dialysis

    , 1999

    Steady improvement in short-term graft survival of pediatric rel transplants: the PRTCS experience.

    , 1999

    The impact of donor source, recipient age

    , 1998

    Glomerular filtration rate in children following rel transplantation.

    , 1998

    Pediatric Transplant Grand Rounds. Pediatric kidney transplantation at Stanford.

    , 1998

    Pediatric rel transplantation

    , 1998

    ABO-mismatched rel transplantation in children

    , 1998

    Growth rates in pediatric dialysis patients and rel transplant recipients

    , 1997

    Rel transplantation, chronic dialysis

    , 1997

    Pediatric rel transplantation--the PRTCS experience.

    , 1997

    Peritoneal dialysis workshop: pediatrics recommendations.

    , 1997

    Peritoneal membrane transport function in children receiving long-term dialysis

    , 1996

    Peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis treatment recommendations: 1996 update

    , 1996

    (125)Iodine-iothalamate clearance in children. A simple method to measure glomerular filtration

    , 1996

    Lessons from the peritoneal dialysis patient database

    , 1996

    Chylous ascites complicating neotal peritoneal dialysis

    , 1995

    THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTRAPERITONEAL VOLUME AND SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN PEDIATRIC-PATIENTS

    , 1995

    THE EVALUATION OF CANDIDATES FOR REL-TRANSPLANTATION

    , 1994

    REL-TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

    , 1993

    Maintence dialysis in North American children and adolescents

    , 1993

    MAINTENCE IMMUNOSUPPRESSION THERAPY AND OUTCOME OF REL-TRANSPLANTATION IN NORTH

    , 1993

    FACTORS PREDICTIVE OF SUSTAINED GROWTH IN CHILDREN AFTER REL-TRANSPLANTATION

    , 1993

    Continuous peritoneal dialysis for children: a decade of worldwide growth and development.

    , 1993

    INTRAPERITONEAL ALBUMIN INFUSION AND PAIN

    , 1993

    THE EFFECT OF DONOR AGE ON GRAFT-SURVIVAL IN PEDIATRIC CADAVER REL

    , 1992

    PEDIATRIC USES OF RECOMBINT-HUMAN-ERYTHROPOIETIN - THE OUTLOOK IN 1991

    , 1991

    IMPROVED OUTCOMES FROM TERTIARY CENTER PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE-CARE

    , 1991

    GRAFT THROMBOSIS IN PEDIATRIC REL-TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

    , 1991

    THE EFFECT OF RACE ON ACCESS AND OUTCOME IN TRANSPLANTATION

    , 1991

    Treatment modality patterns

    , 1991

    THE 1989 REPORT OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN-PEDIATRIC-REL-TRANSPLANT-COOPERATIVE-STUDY

    , 1990

    A COMPARISON OF 2 PROTOCOLS FOR LIVING-RELATED REL

    , 1990

    MONOCLOL-ANTIBODY OKT3 THERAPY IN PEDIATRIC KIDNEY-TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

    , 1990

    HEMOLYSIS ASSOCIATED WITH HYDROGEN-PEROXIDE AT A PEDIATRIC DIALYSIS CENTER

    , 1990

    OKT3 MONOCLOL-ANTIBODY IN PEDIATRIC KIDNEY

    , 1987

    EARLY EXPERIENCE WITH CONTINUOUS ARTERIOVENOUS HEMOFILTRATION IN CRITICALLY ILL PEDIATRIC-PATIENTS

    , 1986

    ISSUES IN PEDIATRIC DIALYSIS

    , 1986

    A POPULATION-BASED STUDY OF HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME IN OREGON, 1979-1982

    , 1986

    MONOCLOL-ANTIBODY FOR REVERSAL OF ACUTE REL-ALLOGRAFT REJECTION IN PEDIATRIC-PATIENTS

    , 1985

    CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI-ASSOCIATED HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME IN A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

    , 1983

    NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL PERITONITIS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL-DIALYSIS

    , 1983

    SURGICAL ASPECTS OF CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL-DIALYSIS IN INFANTS, CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

    , 1982

    DISSOLUTION OF CYSTINE CALCULI BY PELVIOCALICEAL IRRIGATION WITH TROMETHAMINE-E

    , 1982

    POLYURIC MEGALOCYSTIS

    , 1980

    PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS IN HUMAN PLACENTA AND FETAL MEMBRANES

    , 1978

    ALLERGIC COUGH SYNDROME

    , 1970

    What is Dr. Alexander's NPI number?An National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique ID number that identifies doctors and healthcare providers nationwide.

    Dr. Alexander's National Provider Identifier (NPI) number is 1790709202.

    What common questions do patients ask about Dr. Alexander?

    Here are answers to patients Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) about Dr. Alexander

    What is Dr. Steven Alexander's specialty?

    Dr. Alexander is a Pediatric Nephrologist near Palo Alto, CA.

    What does a Pediatric Nephrologist do?

    A pediatrician specializing in the normal and abnormal development and maturation of the kidneys and urinary tract. This expert focuses on understanding the mechanisms of kidney damage, evaluating and treating renal diseases, managing fluid and electrolyte imbalances, addressing hypertension, and overseeing renal replacement therapy.

    Is this Dr. Steven Alexander affiliated with a ranked Castle Connolly Top Hospital?

    Yes, Dr. Alexander is affiliated with Stanford Health Care - Stanford Hospital which is a Castle Connolly Top Hospital. Castle Connolly Top Hospitals are healthcare institutions recognized for their excellence in specific medical procedures and overall patient care. They are identified through a rigorous peer nomination process, evaluating factors like patient outcomes, quality of care, and expertise. The list recognizes hospitals that excel in 20 or more specific medical procedures, representing the top 25% nationwide. Castle Connolly Top Hospitals

    When to see a Pediatric Nephrologist?: Guides for symptoms, conditions, and treatments

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    Is Steven Alexander accepting new patients in Palo Alto, CA?

    Yes, Dr. Steven Alexander is accepting new patients at this time.

    Does Dr. Steven Alexander offer online booking?

    Please contact Dr. Alexander's office at (650) 497-8000 for information about online booking, telehealth, or to schedule an appointment.

    How can I make an appointment with Steven Alexander?

    Please contact Dr. Alexander's office at (650) 497-8000 for information regarding telehealth appointment availability or for scheduling assistance.

    Which board certifications does Dr. Steven Alexander have?

    Dr. Steven Alexander is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.

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