Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh is a Clinical Professor at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. His research focuses on nephrology, chronic kidney disease, and public health, with specific interests in incremental hemodialysis, renal cachexia, and the epidemiology of renal function. His recent work includes a generative co-design framework for exercise interventions in hemodialysis patients, a multiaction plan to mainstream incremental hemodialysis, and studies on sleep patterns, fibrate use, and dietary protein intake in CKD. He has contributed to advancing kidney health policy and early detection programs, with publications in *Kidney International* and the *Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology*.