Dr. Bakris received his medical degree from the Rosalind Franklin School of Medicine and completed residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine where he also completed a research fellowship in Physiology and Biophysics. He then completed fellowships in Nephrology and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Chicago. Currently, he is a tenured Professor of Medicine and Director of the ASH Comprehensive Hypertension Center in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Bakris has published over 800 peer reviewed articles and book chapters in the areas of diabetic kidney disease, hypertension, and progression of nephropathy. He is the Editor or Co-Editor of 20 books, in the areas of Kidney Disease Progression and Diabetes as well as the new (2017) 3rd edition of Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald’s The Heart. He has served on many national guideline committees including: the JNC 7 executive committee, the American Diabetes Assoc. Clinical Practice Guideline Committee, the National Kidney Foundation (K-DOQI) Blood Pressure and Diabetes Guideline committees, Chair, ADA Blood Pressure Consensus Report and ACC/AHA writing committees for Aortic Aneurysm, Hypertension in the Elderly and Resistant Hypertension Guidelines. He is past-president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the American Society of Hypertension. He is the Editor-in-Chief, Am J Nephrology, Section Editor of Up-to-Date, Nephrology & Hypertension Section and Assoc. Ed of Diabetes Care.