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Robert A. Star, MD Speaker Topic: The NIH Roadmap: Re-Engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise Dr. Star currently holds the following professional positions: Chief of the Renal Diagnostics and Therapeutics Unit, NIDDK; Senior Investigator, NIDDK, NIH; Senior Scientific Advisor, Translational Biology, NIDDK, NIH; Senior Advisor for Clinical Research, Office of Science Policy and Planning, Office of the Director, NIH; and Clinical Professor, George Washington University. He has worked on the clinical research portion of the NIH Roadmap, and coordinates the Trans-NIH Clinical Research Workforce Committee. Dr. Star received his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and MIT Joint Program in Health Sciences and Technology. He was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Nephrology and American Heart Association Dr. Star's laboratory studies acute renal failure and sepsis and has developed a clinically relevant model of sepsis-induced acute renal failure and several MRI imaging methods. Dr. Star frequently lectures at scientific meetings on acute renal failure and sepsis. He is widely published, with numerous articles and book chapters. |
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