"NAD+, Mitochondria, and Metabolic Frailty in the Kidney"

Speaker:

Samir M. Parikh, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Chief, Division of Nephrology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

About Samir Parikh:

Dr. Parikh graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in chemistry. He earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt, where he received the Founder’s Medal as valedictorian of his graduating class. He completed residency and fellowship training in Nephrology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Prior to joining UT Southwestern in 2021, he served as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine at BIDMC.

Dr. Parikh has received multiple honors for teaching and mentorship, having led programs funded by organizations including the Doris Duke Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to train undergraduates, post-baccalaureate students, medical students, residents, and fellows in research.

The Parikh laboratory's research into metabolic mechanisms of kidney resilience has been recognized with the 2018 Sir William Osler Award from the Interurban Clinical Club and the 2019 Donald Seldin Award from the American Society of Nephrology and the American Heart Association. Original research from the group has appeared in Nature, Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, Cell Metabolism, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and PNAS among other leading journals.

Dr. Parikh holds the Robert Tucker Hayes Distinguished Chair in Nephrology in honor of Dr. Floyd C. Rector, Jr., and the Ruth W. and Milton P. Levy, Sr. Chair in Molecular Nephrology.