CORE Kidney Program

Clinical excellence Outreach Research Education (CORE)

About Us

The CORE Kidney Program is composed of multiple sub-organizations that work to support the program itself as well as patients and professionals.

Make an Appointment

If you'd like to make an appointment with a specialist physician, please email us at [email protected].

Monthly Chats

UCLA CORE Kidney Monthly Chat Presents:

Welcome 2025 as Kidney Health Awareness Year!

Kidney Health | What You Should Know

Join us every month for this free and virtual event!

 
Louie Mejia with Dr. Rastogi

Dr. Rastogi Nominated as Los Angeles Magazine Top-Doctor

Each year, Los Angeles magazine publishes a roundup of recommended doctors in a variety of specialties. The list is compiled and vetted by Professional Research Services. Dr. Rastogi has been nominated as a Los Angeles Magazine Top Doctor in 2019 and from 2021-2024. 

UCLA CORE Kidney Float at the Rose Parade

January 1, 2025

Last month, over 800,000 people attended, and millions more watched from across the world as CORE Kidney's 2025 "It's In Your Hands: It Takes 2" Float paraded down the streets of Pasadena during the 2025 Rose Parade. In the previous years of being a part of this parade, the float won the prestigious 2024 Isabella Coleman Award for the most outstanding presentation of color and color harmony through floral design.

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UCLA Health kidney program gives Louie Mejia a path to recovery

My family and I will be forever grateful to Dr Rastogi, the CORE Kidney Team and UCLA Health. I just get so amped up about how good this program is for the community that I came from,” he said. “Now I have a purpose. As a man, as a father, as a husband, it fills me with so much. Maybe this happened for a reason. Maybe this was my destiny.

Louie Mejia smiling in front of classic car