Speaker for Monday, June 10 - Ira Kurtz MD
Ira Kurtz received his M.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Canada and then completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine. He moved to California in 1980 to accept a position as a Research Renal Fellow in the Division of Nephrology, at UCSF in San Francisco. Following completion of his Renal Fellowship in 1983, Dr. Kurtz then joined the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1985, Dr. Kurtz joined the faculty of the Renal Division at UCLA.
Dr. Kurtz has served as Chief of the Division of Nephrology, and Nephrology Fellowship Training Director since 1991. Dr. Kurtz is currently Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Factor Chair in Molecular Nephrology.
Dr. Kurtz is a world-renowned researcher with over 150 publications who has made many major discoveries that have advanced our understanding of how the kidney functions in health and disease. Since 1985, Dr. Kurtz has also been involved in teaching UCLA students and renal trainees in kidney disease. Many of the kidney doctors in Los Angeles who now practice Nephrology were trained by Dr. Kurtz.