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Dr. Vaziri is
Professor of Medicine, Biological Science, Physiology and Biophysics
and Chief of Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, former chair
of the Department of Medicine and past president of the Academic
Senate at University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He is
a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals, author
of over 450 original papers and over 120 invited book chapters,
reviews and editorials. He is a master of the American College of
Physicians, past president of the Western Association of Physicians,
past president of the American Paraplegia Society, and recipient of
numerous prestigious awards. He has made seminal contributions to
the understanding of molecular mechanisms of lipid disorders in
renal disease, as well as, characterization of the role of oxidative
stress, inflammation and altered nitric oxide metabolism in chronic
kidney disease and hereditary and acquired forms of hypertension.
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