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George Bakris, MD, Hon. DSc, FASN, FAHA

George Bakris, MD, Hon. DSc, FASN, FAHA

The University of Chicago Medicine

  • Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago Medicine
  • Director, AHA Comprehensive Hypertension Center, The University of Chicago Medicine (tenured, 2016)
  • Member of the Committees on Clinical Pharmacology and Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
  • Member of the National Guideline Writing Committees of the Joint KDIGO/ADA Diabetes Guideline and ADA/EASD Diabetes Guideline (2021 to 2022)
  • Research focus is on hypertensive and diabetic nephropathy 
  • Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Nephrology and Up-to-Date Nephrology Section; and serves on 18 Editorial Boards
  • Recognized as one of the Castle Connolly Top Doctors in Chicago and the United States

(Speaker’s CV as of event date May 26, 2023)

PC-PH-104932 / June 2023