Dr. Dana Fuhrman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She completed her pediatric residency training, chief residency and a pediatric nephrology fellowship at the University of Rochester where she received a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation and was a T32 Trainee Grant recipient. She subsequently completed a pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in 2015. She practices clinically both pediatric nephrology and critical care medicine at Children’s hospital of Pittsburgh.

She is currently the Program Director for the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program and is the Director of the CRRT and Acute Care Nephrology Programs in Pittsburgh. In 2019 she received a NIDDK K23 to study methods to predict and prevent kidney disease in young adults with congenital heart disease. Her research interests focus on the development of diagnostic tools to predict acute kidney injury, the acute kidney injury to chronic kidney injury transition and methods to improve the delivery of continuous renal replacement therapy. She has authored over 45 peer reviewed publications and has spoken at numerous national and international meetings.