Kidney Associates of Kansas City Providers

Physicians

Ahmed I. Al-Absi, M.D.

Dr. Al-Absi completed his undergraduate and medical school training at the Jordan University School of Medicine. His postgraduate training included Internship at the Jordan University Hospital and Residency at the Arab Medical Center followed by Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He received his Fellowship in Nephrology and his Fellowship in Kidney-Pancreas Transplant at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He then received his Fellowship in Interventional Nephrology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Kelly R. Alford, M.D.

Dr. Alford completed her undergraduate training at Georgetown University and also Howard University. She then attended the University of Kansas and received her Doctor of Medicine degree . Her postgraduate residency in Internal Medicine was done at University of Kansas. She received her Fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Kansas.

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Karid Nieves Borrero, M.D.

Dr. Nieves completed her undergraduate training at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. She received her medical degree from University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. Her medical training programs included an Internal Medicine residency at University District Hospital, Puerto Rico, Nephrology Fellowship and a Transplant Nephrology Fellowship at UCLA, California. She is bilingual in Spanish and English.

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Mohammed Mohialdeen, M.D.

Dr. Mohialdeen received his medical school training at Jordan University of Science and Technology and completed his internal medicine residency at Islamic Hospital. In the US, he completed an internal medicine residency at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He received his Fellowship in Nephrology from the Medical University of South Carolina.

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Pranakumar Dalal, M.D., MPH

Dr. Dalal completed his undergraduate and medical school training at the Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College at Gujarat University. He then received a Master of Public Health from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His postgraduate training included Residency in Internal Medicine at the Sheth K.M. School of Post Graduate Medicine & Research at Gujarat University and Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois St. Joseph Hospital. He received his Fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Missouri and his Fellowship in Transplant Nephrology at Northwestern University.

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Nurse Practitioners

Andy Beisser, ANP-C

Andy is an Adult Nurse Practitioner at Kidney Associates of Kansas City. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from UMKC and returned to UMKC for his Master’s Degree in Nursing.

Nicole Romine, FNP-C

Nicole obtained her Associate’s Degree in Nursing from Moberly Area Community College in Missouri. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. She completed her Master’s Degree in Nursing, specializing as a Family Nurse Practitioner, from Graceland University in Independence, Missouri.

Laura Vasquez, FNP-C

I completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at Missouri State University in 2007. I then received a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing – accelerated track from William Jewell College in 2011. I finished my Master’s in Nursing degree in 2017 from University of Central Missouri. I am a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner who has worked in Cardiology, Internal Medicine and Urgent Care.