Faculty Biographies and Disclosures

George Bakris, MD, FACP

Dr. Bakris is professor of preventive medicine and internal medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He received his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School and completed residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine where he also did a research fellowship in physiology and biophysics. He then completed fellowships in nephrology and clinical pharmacology at the University of Chicago. From 1988 to 1991, he served as Director of Renal Research at the Ochsner Clinic and was a faculty member of Tulane University School of Medicine. He has been on the faculty of Rush University Medical Center where he is professor and vice chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Rush University Hypertension /Clinical Research Center since 1998.

Dr. Bakris has published more than 300 articles and book chapters in the areas of kidney disease, hypertension and progression of nephropathy. He is the editor or associate editor of four books, three dealing with kidney disease, diabetes and the role of hypertension. He chaired the National Kidney Foundation consensus report on blood pressure and its impact on kidney disease progression (2000). He has also served on many national committees including the JNC 7 Executive and Writing Committee (2003), the American Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Guideline Committee (2003-2004), the National Kidney Foundation KDOQI blood pressure guideline committee (2002-2004), the National Kidney Foundation KDOQI diabetes guideline committee (2003-2005) and the NIH National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on Hypertension and Renal Disease (1994). Dr. Bakris is the current editor of the American Journal of Nephrology.