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Ronald J. Falk, MD, FACP, FASN - Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

Ronald J. Falk, MD, FACP, FASN

Nan and Hugh Cullman Eminent Professor

Chair, Department of Medicine

Founder and Co-Director UNC Kidney Center

Ronald Falk, MD
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125 MacNider Hall
CB # 7005
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599

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Ronald J. Falk, MD, FACP, FASN

Nan and Hugh Cullman Eminent Professor

Chair, Department of Medicine

Founder and Co-Director UNC Kidney Center

Areas of Interest

Clinical nephrology, with specific interest in ANCA-associated vasculitis and autoimmune kidney disease

About

Dr. Falk is a clinical nephrologist and internationally recognized expert in vasculitis and autoimmune kidney disease. His career as a translational physician-scientist spans more than three decades. His practice and translational research focus on characterizing the cell, tissue, and physiologic changes in the development of specific autoimmune kidney diseases, including ANCA glomerulonephritis and small vessel vasculitis, and developing new approaches for studying autoimmunity, inflammation, and basic neutrophil/monocyte biology. In 1985, Dr. Falk co-founded the Glomerular Disease Collaborative Network (GDCN) to coordinate kidney disease research by nephrologists throughout the southeastern United States and connect them with the UNC School of Medicine. The GDCN now consists of more than 600 nephrologists from over 250 private nephrology offices and has enrolled patients in 16 specific glomerular disease registries. The GDCN has initiated or participated in numerous single-center and multicenter clinical trials, epidemiologic studies, and a wide range of basic science and translational research projects.

  • Undergraduate

    Dartmouth College

  • Medical School

    University of North Carolina School of Medicine

  • Residency - Internal Medicine

    University of North Carolina Hospital

  • Fellowship - Nephrology

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Fellowship - Pediatric Nephrology Research

    University of Minnesota

While medicine is to be your vocation, or calling, see to it that you have also an avocation – some intellectual pastime which may serve to keep you in touch with the world of art, of science, or of letters.

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