After earning his M.D. from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, he completed his residency training in internal medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, followed by a nephrology fellowship at the joint program between Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Lam’s clinical interests are in onco-nephrology, a growing subspecialty within the field of nephrology focusing on the diagnosis and management of kidney complications in patients with cancer. He is particularly interested in the development of kidney disease in patients who have undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. He is a Deputy Editor in Nephrology and Hypertension for UpToDate.