Clinical Focus

• Nephrology

Administrative Appointments

• Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (HMS) (1989 - 1992)
• Research Fellow in Medicine, HMS (1992 - 1995)
• Instructor in Medicine, HMS (1995 - 1997)
• Instructor in Surgery, HMS (1966 - 1998)
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS (1997 - 1998)

Honors and Awards

• Senior Mentor, Network of Minority Research Investigators, NIDDK (2008)
• Mentor of the Year, Bay Area Clinical Research Symposium (2007)
• National Torchbearer Award, American Kidney Fund (2007)
• STAR Award, UCSF Medical Center (2006)
• Inductee, Society of Master Clinicians, UCSF Department of Medicine (2006)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Graham Abra,  Shuchi Anand,  Maria Arce,  Tara Chang,  Kevin Erickson,  Erik Lum,  Jenny Shen,  Tammy Sirich,  Sumi Sukumaran Nair,  Emilee Wilhelm-Leen

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Epidemiology
• Health Research and Policy
• Health Services Research
• Medicine
• Urology

Internet Links

• Division of Nephrology website

Industry Relationships

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Current Research Interests

clinical epidemiology, health services research, decision sciences, clinical trials in acute and chronic kidney disease

Clinical Trials

• SPRINT Recruiting
• Treatment on subject with renal artery narrowing with the use of approved peripheral stents and blood pressure medication as compared to blood pressure medication alone. No longer recruiting

Publications

• Acute Kidney Injury and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients. Wang HE, Muntner P, Chertow GM, Warnock DG. Am J Nephrol. 2012; 35 (4): 349-355
• Baseline characteristics of subjects enrolled in the Evaluation of Cinacalcet HCl Therapy to Lower Cardiovascular Events (EVOLVE) trial. Chertow GM, Correa-Rotter R, Block GA, Drueke TB, Floege J, Goodman WG, Herzog CA, Kubo Y, London GM, Mahaffey KW, Mix TC, Moe SM, Wheeler DC, Parfrey PS. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2012
• Challenges to enrollment and randomization of the frequent hemodialysis network (FHN) daily trial. Sergeyeva O, Gorodetskaya I, Ramos R, Schiller BM, Larive B, Raimann JG, Ting GO, Eggers PW, Chertow GM, Levin NW, Network Trials Group FH. J Nephrol. 2012: 0
• Design of Clinical Trials in AKI: A Report from an NIDDK Workshop. Trials of Patients with Sepsis and in Selected Hospital Settings. Molitoris BA, Okusa MD, Palevsky PM, Chawla LS, Kaufman JS, Devarajan P, Toto RM, Hsu CY, Greene TH, Faubel SG, Kellum JA, Wald R, Chertow GM, Levin A, Waikar SS, Murray PT, Parikh CR, Shaw AD, Go AS, Chinchilli VM, Liu KD, Cheung AK, Weisbord SD, Mehta RL, Stokes JB, Thompson AM, Thompson BT, Westenfelder CS, Tumlin JA, Warnock DG, Shah SV, Xie Y, Duggan EG, Kimmel PL, Star RA. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012
• Design of Clinical Trials in Acute Kidney Injury: A Report from an NIDDK Workshop--Prevention Trials. Okusa MD, Molitoris BA, Palevsky PM, Chinchilli VM, Liu KD, Cheung AK, Weisbord SD, Faubel S, Kellum JA, Wald R, Chertow GM, Levin A, Waikar SS, Murray PT, Parikh CR, Shaw AD, Go AS, Chawla LS, Kaufman JS, Devarajan P, Toto RM, Hsu CY, Greene TH, Mehta RL, Stokes JB, Thompson AM, Thompson BT, Westenfelder CS, Tumlin JA, Warnock DG, Shah SV, Xie Y, Duggan EG, Kimmel PL, Star RA. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012