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Ronald Falk, Councilor

Dr. Ronald Falk was elected to the ASN Council in 2006. He has served in a number of various capacities for the American Society of Nephrology, including on the Annual Meeting Program, Training Program, Post-Graduate Education, and Nomination Committees, was Co-Director of the glomerular disease course during Renal Week from 2000-2005, and participant in the ASN Board Review and Renal Week Highlights. He also served as Deputy Editor of NephSAP.

Dr. Falk graduated from Dartmouth College and obtained his MD from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He undertook his internal medicine and nephrology training at the University of North Carolina, and then a research fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Since 1993, Dr. Falk has served as Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the University of North Carolina, and since 2005, co-founder and Director of the UNC Kidney Center.

Dr. Falk has published numerous articles and reviews in the general area of immune mechanisms of renal disease, and in particular on anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody small vessel vasculitis. He has served on or has chaired a number of National Institutes of Health study sections, review panels, and advisory boards. He also serves as a member of several editorial boards, including Kidney International, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and American College of Physicians MKSAP series. His research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Among the many honors he has received, he was appointed Doc J. Thurston Distinguished Professor in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in July, 1994. He has been recognized as one of the "Best Doctors in America" every year since 1992, and is the recipient of a number of invited lectureships.

Ronald Falk lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife Katherine, who is also a nephrologist. They have three children, Benjamin, Kristine, and John.