> Isidro Salusky, M.D.

Dr. Isidro Salusky is Professor Pediatrics at UCLA, Associate Dean for Clinical Research, Program Director of the UCLA General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) and also serves as Director of the Pediatric Dialysis Program.  His research has focused in the areas of nutrition, growth and renal bone diseases in children and young adults with chronic kidney disease.  Dr. Salusky has been involved in GCRC-related activities for more than 20 years and his work has received continuous RO1 funding. Dr.  Salusky training includes a pediatric nephrology fellowship at Necker Hospital in Paris, France and at UCLA as well as a fellowship in nutrition and metabolism at the VA Wadsworth Medical Center. Dr. Salusky has written more that 250 papers and book chapters.  He has undertaken a variety of clinical research projects in this area, and has also completed work using different animal models.  Over the years, his studies have focused on different aspects of renal osteodystrophy in children. His work provided further support to the current relationship between abnormalities of bone and mineral metabolism and vascular calcifications. Dr Salusky is the Director and founder of the UCLA Annual course “Introduction to Clinical Research” (40 hours) and it is currently in its 15^th year.  He is a member of the Editorial Board of several prestigious journals and he is currently Secretary General (elect) of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association.