Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
- January 10, 2024
- Physician
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Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Biography
| Name | Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh |
| Birthday | Oct 10 |
| Birth Year | 1963 |
| Place Of Birth | Iran |
| Birth Country | Iran |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
| Siblings | Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh |
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on October 10, 1963 in Iran, Iran.
Kalantar-Zadeh first proposed reverse epidemiology in articles in the journal Kidney International in 2003 and in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in 2004. It is a contradiction to prevailing concepts of prevention of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Kalantar-Zadeh has also contributed extensively to the fields of dialysis and kidney disease nutrition including an invited review paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2017 on nutritional management of chronic kidney disease, in that he recommends low protein diet for conservative management of chronic kidney disease to delay dialysis initiation but high protein diet for dialysis patients without residual kidney function. Kalantar-Zadeh has published extensively on chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease including kidney dialysis with focus on incremental transition to dialysis therapy with initially less frequent hemodialysis treatment.. In 2014, he was ranked as the world’s top specialist in end-stage renal disease and dialysis, a rank he has maintained since then. Kalantar-Zadeh has first-authored two review articles in the New England Journal of Medicine including a 2013 case records paper on metabolic acidosis due to metformin toxicity and a 2017 renal nutrition review paper. Since 2019, Kalantar-Zadeh serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Renal Nutrition.
Kalantar-Zadeh was a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and was based at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center (2000-2012), where he worked with his former mentor Joel D. Kopple and served as the founding director of the Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology. In 2012 Kalantar-Zadeh moved to the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine as a tenured professor of medicine, pediatrics, public health, and Nursing Sciences, and chief of Nephrology, and the UC Irvine Medical Center. Kalantar-Zadeh has remained an adjunct professor of epidemiology at Fielding UCLA School of Public Health.
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Physician |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh is one of the richest Physician from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kamyar Kalantar- Zadeh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (born October 1963) is an American physician doing research in nephrology, kidney dialysis, nutrition, and epidemiology. He is best known as a specialist in kidney disease nutrition and chronic kidney disease and for his hypothesis about the longevity of individuals with chronic disease states, also known as reverse epidemiology including obesity paradox. According to this hypothesis, obesity or hypercholesterolemia may counterintuitively be protective and associated with greater survival in certain groups of people, such as elderly individuals, dialysis patients, or those with chronic disease states and wasting syndrome (cachexia), whereas normal to low body mass index or normal values of serum cholesterol may be detrimental and associated with worse mortality. Kalantar-Zadeh is also known for his expertise in kidney dialysis therapy, including incremental dialysis, as well as renal nutrition. He is the brother of Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, who an Australian scientist involved in research in the fields of materials sciences, electronics, and transducers.
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