01 / UNDERSTANDING
Understand the Whole Picture
Evaluate kidney function in the context of cardiovascular health, blood pressure, metabolism, medications, and aging.
Innovare
Medicine
Academic Kidney Expertise · Personalized Care
Concierge Nephrology in Boston
Expert Kidney Care. A Broader View of Your Health.
Kidney health is inseparable from heart health, blood pressure, metabolism, medications, and aging. At Innovare Medicine, Dr. H. Jenny Lu combines expertise in nephrology and internal medicine with a deeply personal approach to care—helping patients understand complex medical issues, protect kidney function, and make thoughtful decisions about their long-term health.
Harvard Medical School Faculty · Internal Medicine & Nephrology · Brookline, Massachusetts
Our Approach to Kidney Health
A Different Philosophy of Kidney Care
Kidney care should be about more than following laboratory numbers. It requires understanding why kidney function changes, how different medical conditions interact, and which decisions will matter most for each patient's long-term health.
02 / INTERPRETATION
Look Beyond the Numbers
Interpret trends, clinical context, and individual risk rather than relying on isolated laboratory results.
03 / PRESERVATION
Preserve What Matters
Focus on protecting kidney function while balancing treatment benefits, risks, and overall quality of life.
04 / PARTNERSHIP
Think Ahead, Together
Build a long-term physician relationship that supports prevention, careful monitoring, and informed decisions.
Integrated Medical Thinking
The Kidneys Never Work in Isolation.
Kidney disease often develops alongside other medical conditions, and decisions about one organ can affect the health of another. Effective kidney care requires a broader understanding of how the body's systems interact—and how treatment choices influence overall health.
Internal Medicine + Nephrology
A Unified Approach to Patient Care
Heart & Circulation
The heart and kidneys influence one another. Managing fluid balance, cardiovascular disease, and kidney function together can help guide safer, more effective treatment decisions.
Blood Pressure
High blood pressure can damage the kidneys, while impaired kidney function can make blood pressure more difficult to control. Understanding this relationship is essential to individualized care.
Diabetes & Metabolism
Diabetes and metabolic disorders are important contributors to chronic kidney disease. Coordinated management can address kidney protection alongside cardiovascular and metabolic risk.
Medications & Aging
Kidney function affects how the body handles many medications. As medical needs become more complex with age, treatment plans require careful attention to dosing, interactions, and competing priorities.
Specialized Kidney Care
Who May Benefit from Concierge Nephrology?
From early changes in kidney function to complex medical conditions, individualized nephrology care can provide greater clarity, continuity, and guidance. At Innovare Medicine, kidney concerns are evaluated in the broader context of each patient's health.
01 / CLINICAL FOCUS
Chronic Kidney Disease
Individualized evaluation and long-term management of chronic kidney disease, with attention to underlying causes, progression risk, cardiovascular health, and strategies to preserve kidney function.
02 / CLINICAL FOCUS
Abnormal Kidney Tests
Thoughtful interpretation of elevated creatinine, reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), or changing kidney function—considering trends, medications, hydration, and overall clinical context.
03 / CLINICAL FOCUS
High Blood Pressure
Assessment of difficult-to-control hypertension, including potential kidney-related causes, medication selection, and the balance between blood pressure control and kidney perfusion.
04 / CLINICAL FOCUS
Proteinuria & Hematuria
Evaluation of protein or blood in the urine, with attention to possible kidney disease, appropriate diagnostic testing, and the need for further specialist assessment when indicated.
05 / CLINICAL FOCUS
Electrolyte & Fluid Disorders
Evaluation and management of sodium and potassium abnormalities, fluid retention, and disturbances in fluid balance, particularly in patients with multiple medical conditions.
06 / CLINICAL FOCUS
Complex Cardiorenal Conditions
Integrated care for patients with overlapping heart and kidney disease, including challenging decisions involving diuretics, blood pressure medications, fluid status, and competing treatment priorities.
Kidney injury is more common than often recognized and may develop without noticeable symptoms. Careful evaluation can detect early changes, identify underlying causes, and guide timely interventions to preserve kidney function and prevent or slow disease progression.
The Innovare Advantage
Where Academic Medicine Meets Personal Kidney Care
Complex kidney conditions require more than technical knowledge of nephrology. They benefit from a physician who understands the broader medical picture, can interpret evolving scientific evidence, and brings continuity and careful judgment to each decision.
H. Jenny Lu, MD, PhD
A Physician-Scientist's Perspective
Dr. Lu brings decades of experience in academic medicine, clinical nephrology, and the care of patients with complex medical conditions.
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Dual expertise in Internal Medicine and Nephrology
- More than two decades of academic clinical experience
- Physician-scientist with a background in kidney and cardiovascular research
Two Specialties. One Integrated Perspective.
As both an internist and nephrologist, Dr. Lu evaluates kidney disease alongside cardiovascular health, metabolic conditions, medications, and the patient's overall medical needs. This broader perspective can be especially valuable when treatment priorities compete.
Scientific Rigor. Individual Judgment.
Clinical guidelines and research provide an essential foundation, but patients are not interchangeable. Dr. Lu combines evidence-based medicine with careful interpretation of each patient's circumstances, risks, and goals.
Expertise That Stays With You.
Kidney health can change over years, sometimes gradually and sometimes unexpectedly. A continuing physician relationship allows medical decisions to build on a deeper understanding of the patient's history, priorities, and evolving health.
The advantage is not simply greater access to a nephrologist.
It is a deeper partnership informed by expertise, experience,
and thoughtful clinical judgment.
The Patient Experience
Thoughtful Care, From the First Conversation Forward
Every patient's kidney health tells a different story. Personalized care begins with understanding that story—and continues through careful decisions, proactive follow-up, and an enduring physician relationship.
A Comprehensive Evaluation
We begin with a careful review of your medical history, kidney function, laboratory trends, medications, cardiovascular health, and personal concerns. The goal is to understand not only what the tests show, but what those findings mean for you.
A Plan Built Around You
Dr. Lu develops an individualized approach to diagnostic testing, treatment, prevention, and follow-up. Recommendations take into account your kidney health, other medical conditions, treatment preferences, and long-term goals.
Careful Monitoring & Medication Review
Kidney care often depends on recognizing meaningful changes over time. We follow kidney function and related clinical measures, review medications for kidney-related considerations, and reassess treatment as your health evolves.
Coordination Across Specialties
When kidney disease overlaps with heart conditions, diabetes, or other complex health concerns, Dr. Lu works to align recommendations and communicate with involved specialists, helping patients navigate decisions that affect multiple aspects of their care.
Continuity Through Change
Health needs can change gradually or unexpectedly. An ongoing physician relationship provides continuity, familiarity with your medical history, and a trusted source of guidance when new questions or difficult decisions arise.
Personalized kidney care is not a single consultation. It is an ongoing commitment to understanding your health and making thoughtful decisions together.
Your Nephrology Practice in Greater Boston
Expert Kidney Care, Close to Boston.
Innovare Medicine is based in Brookline, Massachusetts, conveniently situated for patients from Boston, Newton, and surrounding Greater Boston communities. Here, academic nephrology expertise is delivered through a personal physician relationship centered on your individual health needs.
Contact Our Brookline Office →Innovare Medicine
1180 Beacon Street
Suite 4A
Brookline, Massachusetts
Near the MBTA Green Line C branch
Welcoming patients from Brookline, Boston, Newton, and Greater Boston
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Your Kidney Health Deserves More Than a Routine Consultation.
Whether you are navigating a new kidney diagnosis, managing a chronic condition, or facing complex medical decisions, having an experienced physician who understands your whole health can make a meaningful difference.
At Innovare Medicine, we bring together academic nephrology expertise, comprehensive medical thinking, and a deeply personal physician relationship—so you have knowledgeable guidance as your health needs evolve.
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