Avram Zohar (Avi) Traum, MD
- Departments
- Department of Pediatrics
Specialties
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- Transplantation
- Nephrology and Hypertension
- Transplant Center
- Pediatric Transplant Surgery
- Kidney Transplant
- Clinical Interests
- Hypertension management
- Glomerular disease
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Chronic kidney disease
- Transplantation
- Locations
- Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Forestdale: Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands
- Newton: Newton-Wellesley Hospital
- Medical Education
- MD, New York Medical College
- Residency, David Grant U.S. Air Force Medical Center
- Fellowship, Children's Hospital Boston
- Board Certifications
- Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
- Pediatric Nephrology, American Board of Pediatrics
- Patient Age Group
- Pediatric
- Accepting New Patients
- Yes
- Insurances Accepted
- Aetna Health Inc.
Beech Street
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Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
Centene/Celticare
Cigna (PAL #'s)
Cigna/Healthsource NH
EverCare
Fallon Community HealthCare
ForMost Managed Care
Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
Healthy Start
Humana/Choice Care PPO
Medicaid
Medicare
Neighborhood Health Plan - ACD
Neighborhood Health Plan - PBO
Network Health
OSW - Maine
OSW - New Hampshire
OSW - Rhode Island
OSW - Vermont
Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
Railroad Medicare
Railroad Medicare - ACD
TriCare
Tufts Health Plan
Tufts Medicare Advantage PPO
Unicare
United Healthcare (non-HMO) - ACD
United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
MGH Hotline 1.28.11 The loss of a child is one of the most devastating experiences a person can endure.
When 14-year-old Kassie Holmes was faced with going back on dialysis or receiving a kidney transplant, Avram Traum, MD, recommended a transplant regiment that did not include steroids.
Toddler Andrew Johnson is thriving since receiving his mother’s kidney in a transplant at MassGeneral Hospital for Children.
Please join the MassGeneral Hospital for Children Family Advisory Council for a special Chief of Service presentation, as Council Member Lisa Cimino and Avi Traum, MD, discuss the wisdom they have acquired over years of taking care of Lisa's daughter; they will focus on fostering good communication and shared decision-making.
Pediatric Nephrology Associates
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2908
Fax: 617-724-0581
Pediatric Medicine
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114-2696
Phone: 617-726-2728
Fax: 617-724-3948
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