Dr. Malik grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and has joined WNA after working as a nephrologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center from 2011 to 2013.   Dr. Malik initially left Maryland in 1997 to attend the University of Toledo where he went on to graduate with Honors.  During college, he was accepted into the Seven-Year Program at the Medical College of Ohio where he finished medical school.  Later, he completed residency at the University of Arizona and then decided it was time to return back to the east coast for his fellowships.  In Boston, he completed his Nephrology and Transplant Nephrology Fellowships at Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital, respectively. His main research interests are in glomerulonephritis and kidney transplantation.