Dr. Julia Scialla, MD
Not yet claimedNephrologist, Preventive cardiologist · Physician (MD)
Charlottesville, VA
Dr. Julia Scialla is a kidney doctor and associate professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Her work focuses on slowing chronic kidney disease and on the bone and mineral problems it can cause.
About Dr. Julia Scialla, MD
Updated Sep 20, 2026 · next review Dec 19, 2026Dr. Julia J. Scialla is a nephrologist (kidney specialist) at UVA Health in Charlottesville, Virginia. UVA Health describes her as a board-certified nephrologist at the UVA Kidney Center whose work covers diagnosis, education, prevention and treatment of kidney disease, and notes she has NIH-funded research (https://www.uvahealth.com/providers/Julia-Scialla-1780730036).
She trained at Duke University (BS), the University of Pennsylvania (MD), and Johns Hopkins, where she completed internal medicine residency (2003-2006), a nephrology fellowship (2006-2009), and earned an MHS from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was previously on faculty at the University of Miami and Duke before joining UVA in July 2019 (https://news.med.virginia.edu/medicinematters/?p=21504, https://www.doximity.com/pub/julia-scialla-md).
Much of her public record is in research and academic leadership. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at UVA, Director of the Nephrology Clinical Research Center, and Director of Outcomes Research (https://med.virginia.edu/nephrology/faculty-fellows-staff/, https://med.virginia.edu/nephrology/research/ncrc/ncrc-team/). Her research focuses on chronic kidney disease epidemiology, including mineral and bone complications and the use of large health data sets; an American Society of Nephrology page states she has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications (https://www.asn-online.org/about/awards/recipients.aspx?year=2025).
CMS Open Payments records show $0 in industry payments across 0 records for 2021-2025. Payments from drug and device companies are common and legal, and none were reported here (https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/).
- Board certification
- UVA Health describes her as a board-certified nephrologist; Healthgrades lists her specialties as internal medicine and nephrology. uvahealth.com
- Training and degrees
- BS from Duke, MD from the University of Pennsylvania, MHS from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with residency and nephrology fellowship at Johns Hopkins. news.med.virginia.edu
- UVA leadership roles
- Director of the Nephrology Clinical Research Center and Director of Outcomes Research in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at UVA. med.virginia.edu
- Kidney society leadership
- Her journal disclosure form lists her as a Councillor-at-Large of the American Society of Nephrology and a member of the National Kidney Foundation Scientific Advisory Board. cdn-links.lww.com
- Journal editing
- Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases and a past editorial board member of CJASN. kidneycure.org
- Research output
- An American Society of Nephrology awards page states she has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications on chronic kidney disease epidemiology, mineral and bone complications, and data science. asn-online.org
- Clinical trial committees
- She has served on a safety and clinical events committee for a Quanta SC+ home hemodialysis trial and on the adjudication committee for the ProKidney REACT trial. cdn-links.lww.com
- No industry payments reported
- CMS Open Payments shows $0 across 0 records for 2021-2025. openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
- Continuing Duke appointment
- She holds an adjunct associate professor appointment in the Duke Department of Medicine, retained from her earlier Duke faculty role. medicine.duke.edu
- Fellow of ASN
- She uses the FASN designation (Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology) on her UVA lab page and KidneyCure bio. med.virginia.edu
Worth knowing
- A primary certification record from ABIM/ABMS confirming her certificate and dates was not retrieved during this research; the board-certified description comes from UVA Health's own provider page. uvahealth.com
- Directory listings disagree on hospital affiliation: WebMD lists Person Memorial Hospital in North Carolina, which appears to be older information from her time at Duke, while her current listed affiliation is UVA Health University Medical Center. doctor.webmd.com
- State medical license registry and court record checks were not completed during this research, so no conclusion can be drawn either way on those items. uvahealth.com
- No personal or professional social media accounts were found on Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube or Threads; platform-level searches were not completed, so this is 'not found' rather than confirmed absent. uvahealth.com
Industry payments (CMS Open Payments)
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No general payments reported for this NPI from 2021 through 2025.
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Practice location
UVA Kidney Center Clinic
1300 Jefferson Park Ave
Charlottesville, VA 22903
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