Michelle Rheault, MD

Dr. Michelle Rheault is a board certified pediatric nephrologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics. She completed her Pediatric Nephrology fellowship at the University of Minnesota in 2006 followed by a research fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2008 and is currently the Director of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology and medical director of the pediatric dialysis unit. She is on the steering committee of the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium, a clinical research network that aims to facilitate collaboration in pediatric nephrology. Her clinical and research interests include Alport syndrome and other genetic kidney diseases, pediatric glomerular disease, and pediatric end stage kidney disease. 

• Minnesota Monthly “Top Doctors” (2016-2019, 2021)
• Minneapolis - St. Paul “Top Doctors” (2014-2017, 2020, 2021)
• Clinical/Translational Paper of the Year (Associate or Full Professor), Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota (2017)

Secretary, Women in Nephrology

• Rheault MN, Zhang L, Selewski DT, Kallash M, Tran CL, Seamon M, Katsoufis C, Ashoor I, Hernandez J, Supe-Markovina K, D'Alessandri-Silva C, DeJesus-Gonzalez N, Vasylyeva TL, Formeck C, Woll C, Gbadegesin R, Geier P, Devarajan P, Carpenter SL, Kerlin BA, Smoyer WE (2015). AKI in Children Hospitalized with Nephrotic Syndrome. Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology 10, 2110-2118.