"Genomic Medicine in Internal Medicine Practice"

The I.G. Bromberg Memorial Visiting Professorship

To welcome our distinguished guest speaker, this will be an in-person only event. Group viewing sites will be available for those who are on clinical service.

Speaker:

Ali G. Gharavi, M.D.
Jay Meltzer Professor of Nephrology and Hypertension
Chief of Nephrology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Columbia University

About Ali G. Gharavi:

Dr. Gharavi received his medical degree from George Washington University. He completed an internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, followed by fellowships in hypertension and nephrology. He then obtained a postdoctoral fellowship in human genetics at Yale University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Gharavi is the principal investigator for multiple research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health. He has specific interests in the genetics of kidney diseases, including abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract. His research has identified genes and risk loci for many kidney diseases, and has demonstrated the utility of sequencing for the diagnosis and management of patients with kidney disorders.

Dr. Gharavi was a recipient of the Judson Daland Prize for Outstanding Clinical Investigation from the American Philosophical Society, the National Kidney Foundation Clinical Scientist Award and The Kidney and Urology Foundation Innovator award.  He was also elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians.