Dr. Ikizler is currently Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Chair in Vascular Biology and Professor of Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the Director of Division of Nephrology, member of American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), ASCI Advocacy Committee and FASEB Board of Directors as the ASCI representative since 2017. He is currently the Chair of Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative – Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition in Kidney Disease Clinical Practice Guideline Work Group. Dr. Ikizler’s clinical interests and expertise are focused on the care of the patients with chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease on maintenance dialysis, and acute kidney injury. Dr. Ikizler was the Medical Director and CEO of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Outpatient Dialysis unit between 2000 and 2012. He has significant research and clinical interest in nutritional and metabolic aspects of acute and chronic disease states. He is currently an Associate Editor for Kidney International, and he was the Past President of International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism 2010 – 2012, an Associate Editor of Journal of American Society of Nephrology 2006-2012, Director of the Master of Science in Clinical Investigation Program at VUSM 2005 - 2017 and member and Chair of American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Test Writing Committee 2008 - 2018. He is the recipient of National Kidney Foundation Joel Kopple Award, International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism Thomas Addis Award, and VUMC Excellence in Mentoring Translational Scientist Award. As a clinical investigator focused on mechanisms of disease and patient-related outcomes, he is the Principal Investigator of a number of ongoing studies aimed at improving the outcomes and quality of life in patient populations ranging from early kidney disease, patients on maintenance dialysis and patients with acute kidney injury. He has published over 250 original articles, 50 editorial reviews and 20 book chapters. He is the co-editor of Handbook of Nutrition in Kidney Disease and of Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis, and Transplantation, 4th edition.