Jamie R. Privratsky, MD, PhD
Anesthesiologist, Critical Care Specialist
My Locations
About Me
I am a Critical Care physician and researcher who aims to deliver the highest quality compassionate care to patients with critical illness. My clinical focus is to help patients and their families as they navigate the challenges of critical illness to not only make it through their ICU stay, but return to normal as soon as possible afterward. To that end, my research focus is to help find treatments that can prevent or lessen the damage that can be caused by acute kidney injury, a major contributor to worse outcomes in ICU patients. Duke is a world-class institution, and I feel blessed to be able to practice here and be amongst colleagues who are leaders in their field and dedicated to providing the highest quality care to patients and their loved ones.
- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine 2022
- Associate Professor in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology 2023
Training and Education
Clinical Focus and Research
I study factors that influence post-cardiac surgery and perioperative acute kidney in patients in hopes of finding treatment options for this significant post-surgical complication. In the laboratory, I study mechanisms of injury and repair in mouse models of acute kidney injury, and the role that renal myeloid cells (a type of white blood cell) play in the injury and repair process. Since there are no current treatments for acute kidney injury, my career goal is to find therapeutic treatments to prevent long-term renal damage following acute kidney injury.
- U2C/TL1 NC KUH TRIO Administrative Core awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2023 - 2028
- TRIO NRSA Training Core-Pre Doc Trainee awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2023 - 2028
- Pant, Praruj, Shingo Chihara, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, Miriam M. Treggiari, Julia A. Messina, Jamie R. Privratsky, Karthik Raghunathan, and Tetsu Ohnuma. “Association of Causative Pathogens With Acute Kidney Injury in Adult Patients With Community-Onset Sepsis.” Critical Care Explorations 7, no. 2 (February 2025): e1219. https://doi.org/10.1097/cce.0000000000001219.
- Husain, Irma, Holly Shah, Collin Z. Jordan, Naveen R. Natesh, Olivia K. Fay, Yanting Chen, Jamie R. Privratsky, et al. “Targeting allograft inflammatory factor 1 reprograms kidney macrophages to enhance repair.” J Clin Invest 135, no. 5 (January 21, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI185146.
- Jordan, Collin Z., Yanting Chen, Irma Husain, Miriam Dilts, Olivia K. Fay, Jamie Privratsky, Xunrong Luo, and Matthew Tunbridge. “Murine kidney transplant outcome is best measured by transdermal glomerular filtration rate.” Am J Transplant 24, no. 12 (December 2024): 2150–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.07.010.
- Privratsky, J. R., A. Cherry, B. Y. Andrew, and M. Stafford-Smith. “Preservation of Renal Function.” In Perioperative Medicine: Managing for Outcome, Second Edition, 222–50, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-56724-4.00017-4.
- Cherry, A. D., B. Y. Andrew, J. R. Privratsky, and M. Stafford-Smith. “Renal Failure and Dialysis.” In Evidence-Based Practice in Perioperative Cardiac Anesthesia and Surgery, 597–618, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47887-2_54.
- Johnson, Selby, Matthew Fuller, Riley League, Raquel R. Bartz, Ryan McDevitt, Krista L. Haines, Tetsu Ohnuma, et al. “Disparities in Survival after Severe COVID-19-related Critical Illness: A Nationwide Study in 466 ICUs in the US.” In ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA, 134:230–34, 2022.
- Martinez, Michael, Matthew Fuller, Karthik Raghunathan, Tetsu Ohnuma, Raquel R. Bartz, Rebecca Schroder, Thomas Price, et al. “Pre-menopausal age in females is associated with protection from development of post-operative acute kidney injury, but not mortality following AKI.” In ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA, 134:256–57, 2022.
- Huang, Hsin-I, Mark L. Jewell, Nourhan Youssef, Min-Nung Huang, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Brian E. Fee, Nathan P. Rudemiller, et al. “Th17 Immunity in the Colon Is Controlled by Two Novel Subsets of Colon-Specific Mononuclear Phagocytes.” In Front Immunol, 12:661290, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.661290.
Insurance Accepted
Duke Health contracts with most major health insurance carriers and transplant networks, including the ones listed below.
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Aetna
- Aetna Choice POS, Aetna Choice POS II
- Aetna Elect Choice HMO, Aetna Open Access Elect Choice
- Aetna Health Network Only, Aetna Health Network Option
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Limited Benefit Insurance PPO
- Aetna Managed Choice POS
- Aetna Medicare Assure Plan (HMO D-SNP)
- Aetna Medicare Eagle Plan (PPO)
- Aetna Medicare Essential Plan (PPO)
- Aetna Medicare Value Plan (HMO)
- Aetna Open Access HMO, Open Access Aetna Select, Aetna Open Access Managed Choice
- Aetna Open Choice PPO
- Aetna PCP Coordinated POS Plan
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (QPOS)
- Aetna Select HMO
- Aetna Traditional Choice
- Aetna Voluntary Indemnity Group Plan
- Aetna Whole Health – Duke WakeMed WKCC
- Aetna/CVS Health
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Ambetter
- Ambetter of North Carolina
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC
- Blue Advantage
- Blue Medicare (HMO, PPO)*
- Blue Options (123, PPO, HSA)
- Blue Select
- NC State Employees Health Plan
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*Duke HomeCare and Hospice does not participate in the plan.
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Cigna
- Cigna Behavioral Health (*Limited eligibility)
- Cigna Choice Plus
- Cigna Connect Individual Family Plan
- Cigna Open Access
- Cigna Open Access Plus
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*Please call Cigna Behavioral Heath to see if the provider is participating in your plan.
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Duke Group Plans
- Duke Basic
- Duke Select
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Experience Health
- Experience Health Medicare Advantage (HMO) Plan
- Gateway Health Alliance
- Healthgram
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Humana
- Humana Choice (PPO)
- Humana Choice - Medicare Advantage (PPO)
- Humana ChoiceCare - Medicare Advantage (PPO)
- Humana Gold Choice - Medicare Advantage (PFFS)
- Humana Gold Plus - Medicare Advantage (HMO)
- Humana Medicare Advantage Group Plan - NC State Retirees
- MedCost
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Medicare
- First Medicare Direct
- Medicare Part A
- Medicare Part B
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NC Medicaid
- AmeriHealth Caritas North Carolina
- Carolina Complete Health
- Healthy Blue
- NC Medicaid Direct
- WellCare of North Carolina
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TRICARE
- TRICARE Prime
- TRICARE Prime Remote
- TRICARE Select
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United Healthcare
- AARP Medicare Advantage Plan 2 (HMO-POS)
- AARP Medicare Complete (HMO, PPO)*
- AARP Medicare Complete Essential (HMO)*
- All Savers Alternate Funding
- All Savers Fully Insured
- United Healthcare (HMO, PPO, POS)**
- United Healthcare Charter/Charter Balance/Charter Plus
- United Healthcare Choice/Choice Plus
- United Healthcare Core/Core Essential
- United Healthcare Navigate/Navigate Plus/Navigate Balanced
- United Healthcare Option PPO
- United Healthcare Passport Connect Choice/Choice Plus
- United Healthcare Passport Connect Options PPO
- United Healthcare Select/Select Plus
- United Healthcare Shared Services - Harvard Pilgrim/UHC Options PPO Network
- United Medical Resources (UMR)
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*Duke HomeCare and Hospice and mental health providers do not participate with the plan.
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**Duke Health does not participate in UHC plans on the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Before scheduling your appointment, we strongly recommend you contact your insurance company to verify that the Duke Health location or provider you plan to visit is included in your network. Your insurance company will also be able to inform you of any co-payments, co–insurances, or deductibles that will be your responsibility. If you proceed in scheduling an appointment and your health insurance benefits do not participate with Duke, your out of pocket liability may be higher. We will contact you regarding your coverage and patient liability. If you are uninsured, learn more about our financial assistance policy.
External Relationships
- International Anesthesia Research Society
- NIH
- NIH Center for Scientific Review