Csaba P. Kovesdy, MD, FASN, Director

Dr. Kovesdy obtained his MD degree in Hungary, and he completed his internal medicine residency at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI, and his nephrology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Kovesdy is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Nephrology.

His research interests are centered among others on epidemiology and outcomes, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic abnormalities, race-ethnicity, and bone and mineral disorders in pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease. He is Principal Investigator on several studies and federal grants in these areas. He has published his research in over 500 peer-reviewed articles, as well as numerous abstracts and book chapters