Emily Joyce, MD

About

Emily Joyce, MD, MS, is pediatric nephrologist who joined University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in November 2019 as an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nephrology. Dr. Joyce is also the Medical Director of Pediatric Dialysis at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s. Prior to joining the UH Rainbow staff, she served as an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nephrology at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

As an undergraduate, Dr. Joyce attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan), earning a Bachelor of Science in engineering - biomedical engineering in 2007. Dr. Joyce earned her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Cleveland, Ohio) in 2011. She did her post-graduate medical training at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), finishing a pediatric residency in 2014 and a pediatric nephrology fellowship in 2017. She went on to obtain a Master of Science in clinical research from University of Pittsburgh in 2018.

Professional societies in which Dr. Joyce is a member include the American Society of Nephrology and American Society of Pediatric Nephrology. As an invited speaker, Dr. Joyce has lectured and presented at numerous local and national meetings, symposiums and grand rounds, presenting on such topics as nephrotoxicity in critically ill children, nephrotoxic acute kidney injury in children, pediatric dialysis complications and pediatric hypertension.

Among other awards and honors, Dr. Joyce is the recipient of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology Resident Travel Award, May 2013; American Society of Nephrology Program for Medical Students and Residents, November 2013; Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Scholars Award, July 2017; and Cleveland Magazine Top Doctor (2021, 2022, 2023).

In addition to authoring a number of book chapters and medical abstracts, Dr. Joyce has contributed original articles to various peer-reviewed journals, including Pediatric Nephrology, Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, Drug Safety, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Pediatric Transplantation and Cardiology in the Young. She also serves as a reviewer for Pediatric Nephrology, Frontiers in Pediatrics and Journal of Perinatology, among others.