Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh is an Investigator at the Lundquist Institute, a Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Public Health and the Chief of Nephrology at the UCI School of Medicine, and an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He received his MD in Medicine at the University of Bonn in 1991, and he earned his MPH in Public Health and Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He has conducted research on kidney disease outcomes and epidemiology, cardiovascular risks in CKD, malnutrition and wasting in chronic diseases, inflammation and cachexia, diabetes and obesity, renal osteodystrophy and mineral disorders, sodium and potassium disarrays, anemia and iron deficiencies, disparities and quality of life in CKD, and acid–base disorders.