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Faculty
Lawrence Blonde, MD, FACP, FACE |
Director, Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Associate Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Dr. Lawrence Blonde is Director of the Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, as well as an Associate Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
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| Dr. Blonde's clinical and research activities have focused on patients with diabetes mellitus and investigations of new therapies and health care delivery systems for them. He has also published and presented information about the use of computers to enhance medical education and patient care. |
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| Dr. Blonde is chair of the Steering Committee of the National Diabetes Education Program, a partnership of the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than 200 public and private organizations working to “change the way diabetes is treated.” |
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| Dr. Blonde is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Council for the Advancement of Diabetes Research and Education (CADRE), and he is a member of the National Quality Forum Adult Diabetes Care Consensus Maintenance Committee. Dr. Blonde is chair of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Doing Better Committee and a former member of the ADA Board of Directors. He is a current member and former chair of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, which develops practice guidelines for the care of people with diabetes. |
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| Dr. Blonde has served on the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group Board of Directors. He has also functioned as a member of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine and the Transitional Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He has also been a member of the Council of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, the Council of the Association of Subspecialty Professors, and the American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine Medical Informatics Subcommittee, for which he served as chair. |
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| George L. Bakris, MD, FAHA, FASN |
Professor of Medicine
Director, Hypertensive Diseases Center
Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois |
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| George L. Bakris, MD, FAHA, FASN, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, where he is also the Director of Hypertensive Diseases Center, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. |
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| After earning his medical degree from The Chicago Medical School in Illinois, Dr. Bakris completed a residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, where he also completed a research fellowship in physiology and biophysics. He subsequently completed fellowships in nephrology and clinical pharmacology at The University of Chicago. |
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| In addition to publishing more than 350 articles and book chapters in the areas of kidney disease, hypertension, and progression of nephropathy, Dr. Bakris is Associate Editor of the International Textbook of Cardiology, as well as editor or coeditor of 8 books on kidney disease, diabetes, and the role of hypertension, including Hypertension: Principles and Practice and The Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease. He is also Editor of The American Journal of Nephrology and the Hypertension Section Editor of Up-to-Date. In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards of more than 12 professional journals, including Diabetes Care, Kidney International, The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, and Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. |
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| A Fellow of the American Heart Association and The American Society of Nephrology, Dr. Bakris has been coprincipal investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical research training grant (K30) to train clinical researchers (one of 55 in the United States). He has served on many important national committees, among them the Executive and Writing Committee of the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), the American Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Guideline Committee, the National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF K/DOQI) Blood Pressure Guideline Committee, and the NKF K/DOQI Diabetes Guideline Committee. He has also served as an expert-consultant for the Food and Drug Administration's Cardiorenal Advisory Board. Dr. Bakris is a past president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. |
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Richard A. Lafayette, MD, FACP |
Associate Professor of Medicine
Clinical Chief, Division of Nephrology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California |
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Richard A. Lafayette, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, where he also serves as Director of Renal Clerkship and Director of Resident Subspecialty Training in Nephrology. |
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After earning his medical degree from New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, Dr. Lafayette completed an internship and a medical residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in clinical nephrology at Stanford University Medical Center, where he also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Division of Nephrology. |
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Dr. Lafayette is an active researcher in the study of renal disease. He is Principal investigator of several ongoing trials on anemia of CKD and anemia in patients on dialysis. A national and international presenter, Dr. Lafayette has published reviews, books, and book chapters on nephrology, as well as numerous abstracts and peer-reviewed articles in journals that include The American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Kidney International, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, and Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Lafayette also serves as ad-hoc reviewer for a number of prestigious clinical journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Kidney International. |
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Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, with a subspecialty in nephrology, Dr. Lafayette is also certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners. In addition, he is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation, and the American College of Physicians, where he serves on the Governor's Council of the California chapter. |
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