Welcome to the Division of Nephrology
Robert H Mak MD PhD is Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program at the University of California, San Diego and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego. He was the co-founder and past president of the Western Society of Pediatric Nephrology. He is on the Editorial Board of Nature Reviews Nephrology and World Journal of Pediatrics. He has served as Education Editor of Pediatric Nephrology, Consulting Editor of Pediatric Research and as member of the editorial board of the Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology. He was a Councilor of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association and chairman of their education committee. His research interests include molecular pathophysiology for cachexia, bone disease and cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease as well as biomarker discovery for kidney disease progression.
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