Professor of Medicine and Director of the Am. Heart Assoc. Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. He has published over 800 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in diabetic kidney disease, hypertension, and nephropathy progression. He is the Editor or Co-Editor of 21 books in the areas of Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression and Hypertension. He is Editor of 3rd edition of Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald’s The Heart. He served on many national guideline committees, including The Joint National Committee JNC 7, the American Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Guideline Committee, the National Kidney Foundation (K-DOQI), and KDOQI Blood Pressure and Diabetes Guideline committees. Dr. Bakris is the past-president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the American Society of Hypertension (ASH). He is the recipient of the Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award-Am Heart Assoc. BP Council (2019) and the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois Lifetime Service Award. He serves on numerous editorial boards and is the current Editor-in-Chief of Am J Nephrology, Editor-in-Chief- UpToDate, Nephrology section, Hypertension Section Editor UpToDate and Assoc. Ed of Diabetes Care and Hypertension Res.