Andrew Simon Levey

Andrew Levey is an American Nephrologist who transformed Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) research, clinical practice, and public health by leading the global standardization of chronic kidney disease definition and staging centered around Renal function.

Education and career

Levey graduated from the University of Chicago in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1976 at the Boston University School of Medicine.He became a Professor of Medicine in the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1994, and was Chief of the Division of Nephrology from 1999 to 2017.

Contributions

Levey is known for developing the most widely used equations to estimate Renal function globally. He led the CKD-EPI Collaboration that pooled measured kidney function data from studies all over the world and developed equations to estimate kidney function from Serum Creatinine and Cystatin C Vorlage:RHe pioneered work with the MDRD Study Equation: Vorlage:R

$\mathrm {eGFR} =141\ \times \ \mathrm {\min(SCr/k,1)} ^{a}\ \times \ \mathrm {\max(SCr/k,1)} ^{-1.209}\ \times \ 0.993^{\text{Age}}\ \times {\text{[1.018 if Female]}}\ \times {\text{[1.159 if Black]}}\$

Levey chaired the National Kidney Foundation KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline Workgroup on “Chronic Kidney Disease: Evaluation, Classification and Risk Stratification”Vorlage:R. The recommendations from this workgroup transformed the way Kidney Disease was defined and staged globally. The guideline has been cited over 10,000Vorlage:R times in subsequent research publications. He led multiple Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO)Vorlage:R initiatives which advanced the global recognition and care for CKD 4, Acute kidney injuryVorlage:R, Kidney transplantationVorlage:R, and HypertensionVorlage:R.

He was also a founding member of the CKD Prognosis ConsortiumVorlage:R, which includes over 80 cohorts and 10 million participants and has informed multiple clinical practice guidelines and regulatory policies.

Awards

• National Kidney Foundation: President’s Award (1998), Garabed Eknoyan Award (2002) and David M. Hume Award (2012).
• American Society of Nephrology: Belding H. Scribner Award (1998).
• Web of Science High Cited Researcher Thomson Reuters (2014-2019).

Personal

Doctor Levey is married to Doctor Roberta Falke. In 2010 he donated a kidney to her via a 3-Way Transplant

External links

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