Dr. Waikar received his BA in English and Neuroscience from Amherst College in 1993, his MD from Yale University School of Medicine in 1998, and his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 2006. He trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco from 1998-2001 and was selected to serve as chief medical resident for an additional year. After a year of traveling internationally and volunteering in medical clinics in South America and Asia, Dr. Waikar trained as a fellow in nephrology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital from 2003-2006; his research training was under the mentorship of the epidemiologist Dr. Gary Curhan. In 2006, Dr. Waikar joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, rising to the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard in 2014. In 2017, he received the Constantine Hampers, MD Distinguished Chair in Renal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Waikar was recruited to serve as Chief of Nephrology at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine in 2019. His laboratory has used epidemiologic, translational, and interventional studies to address important questions in nephrology inspired by the patients from his clinical practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed original manuscripts, edited a textbook on acute kidney injury, and mentored over 25 research mentees. His first two mentees on career development awards from 2010 now have successful multi-R01-funded laboratories. Dr. Waikar’s laboratory has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2007. His current grant portfolio includes four R01-level awards and an R25 training grant. Throughout his career he has remained clinically active, and currently serves as the lead nephrologist at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program.