What is Dr. Ix's experience in the field of nephrology?
Dr. Ix is an experienced nephrologist who has primarily utilized epidemiologic methods and clinical trials to understand disease patterns that overlap between kidney and vascular disease, and to test novel therapies to improve vascular disease in the kidney patient. He is particularly interested in the effects of blood pressure control on kidney disease and its complications and is a principal investigator of an NIH award focused on this topic. He also served as the San Diego Site principal investigator and a member of the CKD working group within the SPRINT trial. Dr. Ix has co-authored over 370 peer-reviewed scienti c papers, has previously served as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and Circulation. In 2020, he received the Shaul G. Massry Award from the US National Kidney Foundation.