Khashayar Sakhaee, M.D.

Khashayar Sakhaee, M.D., is a Professor with tenure in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a faculty member in the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research. He holds the Laura Kim Pak Professorship in Mineral Metabolism Research. 

Originally from Tehran, Iran, Dr. Sakhaee earned his bachelor's degree and medical degree and completed internal medicine residency training at Pahlavi University in Shiraz, Iran. He finished his internal medicine residency as a Senior Resident at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio. He then completed advanced training through a fellowship in Nephrology at UT Health Science Center in Dallas.

Dr. Sakhaee is the Director of the Mineral Metabolism Clinic at Parkland Memorial Hospital and a member of the Ambulatory High-Performance Team for the Parkland Health & Hospital System.

Dr. Sakhee's clinical interests include metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis and osteomalacia, magnesium disorders like hypomagnesia, phosphate disorders like hyperphosphatemia, and calcium disorders like hypercalcemia and hypocalcemia. His research interests include uric acid stones, post-renal transplantation hypophosphatemia, and osteoporosis.

An editorial board member of the journal Urolithiasis, Dr. Sakhaee has published countless academic articles and delivered a number of international, national, and regional invited lectures.

Dr. Sakhaee is a member of the National Kidney Foundation, the American Urological Association, and the Dallas County Medical Society, among many other professional organizations.

Medical School

Pahlavi University Medical School (1972)

Internship/Residency

Pahlavi University Medical School (1976), Internal Medicine

Residency

University Hospitals of Cleveland (1977), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (1979), Nephrology

• Bone Loss
• Nephrolithiasis
• Osteoporosis
• Post-Renal Transplantation
• Uric Acid Stones

Featured Publications

Low Urine pH: A Novel Feature of the Metabolic Syndrome

NM Maalouf, MA Cameron, OW Moe, B Adams-Huet, and K Sakhaee Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2007 5 883-888

Urine composition in Type 2 Diabetes: Predisposition to Uric Acid Nephrolithiasis

Cameron MA, NM Maalouf, B Adams-Huet B, OW Moe, K Sakhaee J Am Soc Nephrol 2006 17 1422-1428

Effect of dietary modification on urinary stone risk factors

Pak CYC, CV Odvina, M Pearle, K Sakhaee, R Peterson, JR Poindexter and L Brinkley Kidney Int 2005 68 2264-2273

Effects of potassium alkali and calcium supplementation on bone turnover in postmenopausal women

Sakhaee K, NM Maalouf, SA Abrams and CYC Pak J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2005 90 3528-3533

Pathophysiologic basis for normouricosuric uric acid nephrolithiasis

Sakhaee K, Adams-Huet B, Moe OW, Pak CYC Kid. Int. 2002 62 971-979

Metabolic syndrome and uric acid nephrolithiasis

Sakhaee K, NM Maalouf Sem Nephrol 2008 28 174-180

Nephrolithiasis as a systemic disorder

Sakhaee K Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 2008 17 304-309

Osteoporosis following solid organ transplantation

Vega D, K Sakhaee Future Rheumatol 2007 2 341-345

The role of RANK/RANKL/OPG: Clinical implications

Vega D, NM Maalouf, and K Sakhaee J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2007 92 4514-4521

Increased propensity for calcium phosphate kidney stones with topiramate use

Vega D, NM Maalouf, and K Sakhaee Expert Opin Drug Saf 2007 6 547-557

• Best Doctors in America
  Nephrology, Mineral Metabolism (2007)
• Best Doctors in America
  Nephrology, Mineral Metabolism (2006)
• Medicine Housestaff Outstanding Teacher Award
  (1996)
• Endowed Professorship in Mineral Metabolism and Osteoporosis
  (1994)