Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.,
F.A.A.P., F.A.C.P., F.A.S.N., F.A.H.A.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Director, Off-Campus Dialysis Expansion Program and Epidemiology
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Office Address:

Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA

 

1124 W. Carson St., C-1 Annex

 

Torrance, CA 90502-2064

Office Phone:

310-222-3891 to -3893 (Lab: 310-222-2346)

Fax:

310-782-1837 (Lab: 310-222-3839)

Lab Address:

1124 W. Carson St., Room B1-9c (www.NIEDstudy.org)

Email Address:

kkanatar@labiomed.org or kamkal@ucla.edu

 

Degrees:

  • M.D.
  • M.P.H.
  • Ph.D.

Acquired Credentials/Fellowships:

  • Fellow of American College of Physician (F.A.C.P.)
  • Fellow of American Academy of Pediatrics (F.A.A.P.)
  • Fellow of American Society of Nephrology (F.A.S.N.)
  • Fellow of American Heart Association (F.A.H.A.)


Undergraduate Institution:

  • University of Tehran
  • University of Bochum, Germany


Graduate Institution:

  • University of Bonn, School of Medicine, Bonn, Germany (M.D.)
  • University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, School of Medicine, Nuremberg, Germany (Dr. med.)
  • University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA (M.P.H.)
  • University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA (Ph.D.)


Residency Institutions:

  • University Hospitals of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany
  • State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY
  • Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, NY


Post-Doctoral Fellowship Institution:

  • University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
  • Renal Division, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA


Board Certifications/Specielties:

  • Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine 1997
  • Diplomate, American Board of Internal Pediatrics 1997, recertified 2004
  • Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine - Nephrology 1999

Professional Affiliations:

  • American Society of Nephrology (fellow elect)
  • National Kidney Foundation
  • International Society of Nephrology
  • American College of physicians (fellow elect)
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (fellow elect)
  • American College of Epidemiology
  • American Heart Association (fellow elect)
  • American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition


Board Certification:

  • American Board of Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology
  • American Board of Pediatrics

Editorial Boards:

Area of Clinical Interest:

  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Dialysis
  • Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disturbances
  • Hyponatremia
  • Glomerulonephritis
  • Renal Transplantation


Areas of Research Interest:

  • ESRD and CKD epidemiology and outcome research
  • Reverse epidemiology of cardiovascular risk
  • CKD associated anemia and iron indices in renal failure
  • Nutritional and inflammatory evaluation of dialysis patients (NIED) Study
  • Quality of Life (QoL) assessment in CKD patients
  • Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) of Nutrition and Malnutrition-Inflammation Score (MIS)
  • Food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) in hemodialysis patients
  • Epidemiological modeling, overuse and abuse of multivariate statistics
  • Special Instrumentation: Near Infra-red (NIR) to measure body composition


Links to relevant information:

Dr. Kalantar's major publications in Medline (PubMed)
Dr. Kalantar's homepage
NIED Study
Harbor-UCLA-Medical Center
Harbor-UCLA-Medical Center Faculty & Staff List
University of California Los Angles (UCLA)
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health
Quality of Life (QoL) Homepage
Berkeley Nutrition Services
Reverse Epidemiology (Bad-Gone-Good Phenomenon)
SGA and MIS Homepage
Electronic Journals
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