Wolfgang Winkelmayer United States
Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer is the Gordon A. Cain Chair in Nephrology, a Professor of Medicine, and the Chief of the Section of Nephrology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Originally from Vienna, Austria, where he attended medical school and received his internal medicine and nephrology training, Dr. Winkelmayer earned a Master of Public Health degree in Health Care Management (1999) and a Doctor of Science degree in Health Policy (2001) from Harvard University. He then spent eight years on the faculty of Brigham and Women¹s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he established himself as a leader in the emerging discipline of comparative-effectiveness research as it pertained to kidney health and disease. Before joining Baylor in 2014, he spent five years at Stanford University, where he served as the Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Nephrology.
Dr. Winkelmayer\\\'s main areas of research interest include treatments of chronic kidney disease-associated anemia as well as the effectiveness and safety of interventions for cardiovascular disease and arrhythmias in patients with kidney disease. He has an excellent track record of garnering federal and foundation funding for this research, which uses observational, real-world data, to which he applies sophisticated, cutting-edge statistical methodology. He has served on several steering committees and data safety monitoring boards of phase 2 and phase 3 trials. He has published >500 manuscripts, including in the leading general medical and nephrology, cardiovascular, and transplant subspecialty journals. He has served as an Associate Editor for JAMA and on several editorial boards of leading nephrology and epidemiology journals. He co-chaired Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), the leading guideline organization in nephrology, from 2016 to 2023. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Clinical and Climatological Association.
30 March 2026
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3:50 p.m.
4:50 p.m.
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PSK
Main Hall
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