Recognition & Awards
The Garabed Eknoyan Award
The Garabed 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 such as the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) or clinical research in the field of kidney disease. The 2010 award recipient is Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, MHS.
Dr. Coresh received an M.D., Ph.D. in epidemiology and Masters in biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins University in 1992. He is currently a Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine and Biostatistics at The Johns Hopkins University and directs the cardiovascular epidemiology program at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was Vice-Chair of the National Kidney Foundation Kidney workgroup for the Clinical Practice Guideline on “Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Evaluation, Classification and Stratification” in 2002 and continues to be actively involved in the evaluation and implementation of these guidelines. He plays a leadership role in the NIH funded CKD-EPI collaborative effort to improve laboratory assessment of kidney function. He is on the planning committee for the 2009 London KDIGO Controveries Conference on Definition, Classification and Prognosis in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and co-leads the analytic team individual level meta-analysis of approximately 50 cohorts and 1 Million participants.
Dr. Coresh has lead investigations of the prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the US, primarily relying on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. He has lead efforts to calibrate serum creatinine assays in the surveys and add serum cystatin measurements to examine prevalence, awareness and trends in chronic kidney disease. Dr. Coresh has led the Washington County field center of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study since 2002. The ARIC cohort follows 15,792 individuals for cardiovascular and other common health outcomes since 1986-1988. He has co-authored over 200 publications. His investigations have included examination of genetic and molecular markers for cardiovascular and kidney disease as well as collaborations on development and application of innovative statistical methodology.
Past Recipients
2009 – Sharon M. Moe, MD
2008 – Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC
2007 – Norbert H. Lameire, MD
2006 – Francesco Locatelli, MD, FRCBP
2005 – Nathan W. Levin, MD, FACP
2004 – Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
2003 – Bertram L. Kasiske, MD
2002– Andrew S. Levey, MD