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Glenn Chertow, MD
Palo Alto, CA USA

Glenn M. Chertow, MD, MPH is the Norman S. Coplon Satellite Healthcare Professor of Medicine and (by courtesy) Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Associate Chair (Fellowship Programs) in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Chertow completed his undergraduate education at University of Pennsylvania (1985) and his MD (1989) and MPH (1995) degrees at Harvard. He completed residency in internal medicine and fellowship in nephrology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital before joining the Harvard faculty, where he remained until 1998. He then joined the faculty at University of California San Francisco, where he served as Director of Clinical Services in the Division of Nephrology and was promoted through the academic ranks to full Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics until joining the Stanford faculty as Professor and Division Chief in 2007, a position he held until 2021. In addition to an active clinical practice, administrative responsibilities, teaching and mentoring, Dr. Chertow has developed and maintained a robust clinical research program. He has served or is currently serving in leadership roles for multiple NIDDK-, NHLBI-, and VA-sponsored clinical trials, including HEMO, DAC, ATN, FHN, SPRINT, PRESERVE, ISCHEMIA CKD, CURE-GN and TiME, and for several industry-sponsored clinical trials including TREAT, EVOLVE, BEACON, SYMPLICITY, REPRISE, CREDENCE, INNO2VATE, PRO2TECT, RENAL-AF, FIDELIO, FIGARO, DAPA-CKD, PRIORITIZE-HF, and STABILIZE-CKD. He has served in an advisory capacity to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee and the National Quality Forum on issues related to the ESRD program, on NIH study sections, and in multiple roles with the American Society of Nephrology, including the Public Policy Board, Quality Metrics Taskforce, and as Associate Editor of the society’s leading journal. He is Co-Editor of Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney. Dr. Chertow was honored by the American Kidney Fund with the National Torchbearer Award (2007) and the Nephrologist of the Year Award (2011) in recognition of his contributions to the care of persons with kidney disease. Dr. Chertow received the Belding H. Scribner Award from the American Society of Nephrology for outstanding contributions that have substantially changed the practice of nephrology (2015) and the David M. Hume Memorial Award (2018), the highest honor given by the National Kidney Foundation to a distinguished scientist-clinician in the field of kidney and urologic diseases. Dr. Chertow is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (2004), Association of American Physicians (2015), and National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) (2015).