Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel

Faculty Investigator, Serious Illness Care Program

Ernest Mandel, MD, SM, is a Faculty Investigator on the Serious Illness Care Program, and is working to expand the Serious Illness Communication Program to the end-stage kidney disease (dialysis) population.

In addition, Ernest is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Division of Renal (Kidney) Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he provides consultative services to individuals with kidney disease in the intensive care units. Ernest also serves as the staff nephrologist at Hebrew SeniorLife, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated provider of comprehensive elder care to seniors in the Boston area. Ernest teaches renal physiology and pathophysiology to students at the Harvard Medical School, for which he has received several teaching awards, and is the director of the Geriatric Nephrology Curriculum for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Joint Nephrology Fellowship Program. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology.

Ernest obtained his A.B. from Harvard College, his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, and his S.M. in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and his fellowship in Nephrology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, during which he was named an American Kidney Fund Clinical Scientist in Nephrology.