Featured Physician

(From the June 2024 issue of MedStat) 

John D. Mahan, MD,is the director of Nationwide Children’s Center for Faculty Development and professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He formerly was the long-standing program director for the Pediatric Residency program and Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship program at Nationwide Children’s and The Ohio State University. He is director of the Nationwide Children's Metabolic Bone Disease Clinic. His clinical and research interests include pediatric dialysis and chronic kidney disease, treatments of glomerular disorders and emerging therapies for metabolic bone disorders in children. 

Dr. Mahan received his medical degree from Hahnemann University and completed his residency in Pediatrics (and Pediatric Chief Residency) and fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Minnesota in 1984. Dr. Mahan is actively engaged in advancing medical education through innovative teaching methods and efforts to develop evidence-based medical education, particularly through his work as co-founder of the Pediatric Resident Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium, the Health Resources and Services Administration-funded national faculty-trainee Sustaining and Training for Resilience, Engagement, and Meaning (STREAM) program and the Specialty Pediatric Investigators Network.

He is involved in several organizations at a regional, national and international level, including the International Pediatric Nephrology Association Executive Committee, where he serves as the treasurer, the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, where he co-chairs the Leadership Development Program, and the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium which he co-founded and serves as president of the Board. Locally, Dr. Mahan is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the National Kidney Foundation serving Central Ohio.