Dr. Okusa is the John C. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the UVA School of Medicine. After completing a residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Virginia (now part of Virginia Commonwealth University), and a fellowship in nephrology at the Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Okusa was recruited to UVA as a faculty member and clinical investigator in 1991. He has served as chief of the Division of Nephrology since 2008, and as director of the Center for Immunity, Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine since 2007.Dr. Okusa’s research focuses on the role of inflammation and immune cells in initiating and maintaining acute kidney injury. Supported by continuous funding from the NIH over his career, his findings in preclinical studies serve as a foundation for clinical trials both acute kidney injury and progressive kidney disease. He has and continues to serve on a number of national and international panels to help set the research agenda in acute kidney injury as well as help develop clinical practice guidelines in acute kidney injury. He is currently principal investigator on several NIH grants, including a T32 training grant in “Kidney Disease and Inflammation.” See downloadable publications of Dr. Okusa here: https://www.pubfacts.com/search/Mark+okusa