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Enjoy a better life and brighter future through kidney disease treatment and research in San Antonio and South Texas

Dr. Iliana Cardona Load

ILIANA CARDONA, M.D.

Education

MD, Universidad Evangelica De El Salvador, San Salvador,  El Salvador, February 2005

Postgraduate Training

Residency in Internal Medicine, Morristown Medical Center, Morriston NJ- Affiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine NY, June 2012

Fellowship in Nephrology, Newmark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newmark, NJ - Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ, June 2014

Board Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
American Board Internal Medicine - Nephrology

Professional Organizations, Societies

American Society of Nephrology
National Kidney Foundation
Bexar County Medical Society
Texas Medical Association

Research

Currently working on a prospective study in newly transplanted patients to identify biomarkers in serum and urine which may be harbingers of rejection. Project involves testing urine and serum for these biomarkers at time of transplant and at 3 and 6 months for each patient.

Thet Zaw, Vivek Agarwal, Sadanand Palekar, Iliana Cardona “ Surgery Vs Radiation: Which modality has improved survival outcome in patients with local prostate cancer post Kidney Transplant ? “ selected for presentation at National Kidney Foundation Meeting, Orlando, April 2013.

Iliana Cardona, “Paraspinal Pyomyositis Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in an immunocompetent patient-A case report”  Presented at Annual Internal Medicine Research Day at Morristown Memorial Hospital. Morristown NJ, June  2010

Iliana Cardona, “ Neoplasia Intraepitelial Prostetica – Actualizacion bibliografica” selected for presentation at  Annual Research Day at Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador,  San Salvador , El Salvador  2000.

Clinic Locations

Medical Center

4458 Medical Drive, Suite 205
San Antonio, Texas 78229

Affiliated Hospitals

Uvalde Memorial Hospital

1025 Garner Field Road
Uvalde, Texas 78801

Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center

3333 N Foster Maldonado
Eagle Pass, Texas 78852

Val Verde Regional Medical Center

801 N Bedell Ave
Del Rio, Texas 78840

Languages

English
Spanish