George L. Bakris, MD
University of Chicago School of Medicine
Director Hypertension Center Diabetes Institute
Chicago, Illinois
George L. Bakris, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago School of Medicine in Illinois, and serves as Director of the Hypertension Center in the Diabetes Institute.
Immediate past-President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, Dr Bakris is the Co-Principal Investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grant to train clinical researchers. He chaired the National Kidney Foundation Consensus report on blood pressure and impact on renal disease progression. He served on many national committees, including: the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee (JNC) on Prevention Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure Executive Committee; the American Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Guideline Committee; the National Kidney Foundation Blood Pressure Guideline Committee; the JNC VI Writing Committee; the NIH National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on Hypertension and Renal Disease; and the NIH Medical Advisory Panel on Hypertension in Blacks. He has also served as an expert-consultant to the Cardio-Renal Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Administration.
Dr Bakris received his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, where he also completed a research fellowship in Physiology and Biophysics. He then completed fellowships in Nephrology and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Chicago.
He is the current Editor of the American Journal of Nephrology and serves on the editorial board of 14 different journals in the areas of hypertension and kidney disease, including Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation, Hypertension, American Journal of Hypertension, and Journal of Nephrology. He serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, American Journal of Kidney Disease, and Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Dr Bakris has published more than 200 articles and book chapters in the areas of renal disease progression and diabetic nephropathy. He has also edited three books dealing with kidney disease, diabetes, and the role of hypertension, and served as a Co-Editor on two other books: Hypertension: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment and the International Handbook of Hypertension.
