 Welch Center Core Faculty member Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, has been named the recipient of the National Kidney Foundation’s Garabed Eknoyan Award for 2010. In their announcement, The NKF stated that the Eknoyan Award “was created to recognize an individual who has promoted the mission of the National Kidney Foundation in Making Lives Better for people with kidney disease through exceptional contributions to key initiatives of NKF.”
The Eknoyan Award has been granted annually since 2002. The award is named for Garabed Eknoyan, MD, Professor of Medicine/Nephrology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is a past president of the National Kidney Foundation and the author of over 300 scholarly publications. Dr. Eknoyan is a leading researcher in nephrology.
Congratulations to Dr. Coresh on receiving this prestigious award!
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