Dr. Vaziri is Professor of Medicine, Biological Science, Physiology and Biophysics and Chief of Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, former chair of the Department of Medicine and past president of the Academic Senate at University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He is a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals, author of over 450 original papers and over 120 invited book chapters, reviews and editorials. He is a master of the American College of Physicians, past president of the Western Association of Physicians, past president of the American Paraplegia Society, and recipient of numerous prestigious awards. He has made seminal contributions to the understanding of molecular mechanisms of lipid disorders in renal disease, as well as, characterization of the role of oxidative stress, inflammation and altered nitric oxide metabolism in chronic kidney disease and hereditary and acquired forms of hypertension.