This year the ANIO Award for Academic Excellence goes to Dr. Anil K. Agarwal. He is the Chief of Medicine at Veterans Affairs Central California Health Care System in Fresno, California, Professor of Clinical Medicine at The University of California San Francisco at Fresno, and Academy Professor at Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio. Dr. Agarwal served as Acting Deputy Chief of Staff at the VACCHCS from March 2022 to March 2023. Dr. Agarwal is a passionate clinician and educator and is an internationally recognized expert in hypertension, dialysis, anemia, mineral bone disorders, and vascular access. He has conducted over 50 clinical trials, developed protocols, and published results of studies. He is a frequently sought-after speaker nationally and internationally.

Dr. Agarwal is the Past President of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology and Past Chair of the Interventional Nephrology Workgroup of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). He has been an ISN ambassador to many countries. He is an advisor to the South Asia Board a Member of the North America and Caribbean Board of the ISN and a member of the Fellowship Committee of the ISN. He has authored and edited the first textbook of Interventional Nephrology as well as both editions of NephSAP on Interventional Nephrology published by the American Society of Nephrology, amongst over 500 publications and presentations.

Dr. Agarwal serves as editor and reviewer for several medical journals. He chaired many committees and boards, including the Medical Advisory Board of NKF of Ohio and the Island Peer Review Organization (Renal Network of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana). He was the Chair of Clinical Scholarship for FAME at Wexner Medical Center from 2014-2020.

ANIO Congratulates Dr. Agarwal. Please join us at the Hilton Bayfront
Time: 6pm Oct 24th, 2024  in San Diego, CA for a special awards ceremony and dinner.

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