DPC Patient Ambassador Spotlight – Pesh Patel

2026-08-26T15:06:40+00:00August 26th, 2026|Categories: Featured Spotlight, Get Involved, Patient Ambassadors, Patient Stories in the News, Private Insurance Coverage, Spotlight|

Check out our Patient Ambassador Spotlight, where we highlight members who elevate the voices of people with kidney disease. This month’s Spotlight is on Pesh Patel from Lafayette, New Orleans. In 2017, while working in Melbourne, Australia, Pesh became unable to walk three city blocks without stopping to catch his breath. He was rushed to the hospital, where he found out that one of his kidneys had never fully developed, and the other was only 2% functional. Pesh then spent 15 months on hemodialysis before receiving a transplant in 2018. Two and a half years later though, his body rejected [...]