Her areas of clinical expertise include incompatible kidney transplants, kidney transplants, nephrology and pancreas transplants.Dr. Alachkar earned her M.D. at Aleppo University Faculty of Medicine in Syria. She completed residencies at Aleppo University and Wright State University School of Medicine. She performed a fellowship in nephrology at Johns Hopkins.Her research interests include biomarkers in kidney transplants; outcome of deceased donor kidney transplant recipients with positive crossmatch; and responses to desensitization treatments and post-transplant outcome in highly sensitized patients. Dr. Alachkar is a member of the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation.