KeithNorrisMDPhD

Nephrology • Los Angeles, CA

Hypertension

Professor, Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine

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Office
1100 Glendon Ave Suite 710
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone+1 310-794-6973

Fax+1 310-794-0732
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Education & Training

College of Metaphysical StudiesPhD, Religious, Spiritual & Metaphysical Philosophy, 2014
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterFellowship, Nephrology, 1983 - 1986
Howard UniversityResidency, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1983
Howard University College of MedicineClass of 1980
Cornell UniversityDegree - None, Biochemistry, Genetics, 1973 - 1976
Cornell UniversityMajor: Biochemistry/Genetics, Minor: Mathematics, 1973 - 1976

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1983 - 2025
NJ State Medical License 2012 - 2015
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Member, NIH-NIDDK Advisory Council NIH
2020-21 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for Research UCLA Academic Senate, 2021
Journal Review of the Year Clinical Journal American Society of Nephrology, 2021
Member, National Academy of Medicine National Academy of Medicine, 2021
Visionary Award for internationally recognized and transformative contributions to health policy and clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease Southern California National Kidney Foundation, 2019
Academic & Community Partnership Award: For advancing the elimination of health disparities to achieve health equity. Xavier University 12th Annual Health Disparities Conference, 2019
Inaugural Kwame Osei., M.D. Mentor of the Year Award National Medical Association Internal Medicine Section, 2019
Inaugural Keynote lecture for the Medical Equity Health Equity Research Conference, Wayne State University, 2017
Community Service Award - South Los Angeles 4th Annual Lillian Mobley Legacy Breakfast, 2017
Frederick C. Greenwood Award - distinguished service and leadership Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program Directors Association, 2017
Distinguished Alumni Award Howard University School of Medicine, 2016
Inaugural lecturer for the 1st Annual Diversity in Nephrology Lecture Series Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital, 2015
Team Science Award Association for Clinical and Translational Science, 2014
Health and Medicine Award Palos Verdes Links, 2013
Recognition Award For Years of Commitment and Dedication to the NIH/NIDDK STEP-UP Program NIDDK 2013 STEP-UP, 2013
Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contributions to the fields of Academic Medicine, Clinical Research, and Diversity from the Diversity Council of the Department of Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2012
Excellence in Leadership Award National Medical Association, Region VI, 2012
Outstanding Professor and Service Award CDU Academic Senate, 2012
Health and Medicine Award Los Angeles NAACP Chapter, 2012
Leadership Recognition Award NIH-RCMI, 2012
Meritorious Achievement Award for Lifetime achievement in medical research and education mirroring the NMA's commitment to promote health and prevent disease, injury, disability and premature death National Medical Association, 2011
Recognition award for mentorship and invaluable contributions to the NIDDK Short Term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) DHHS/NIH/NIDDK, 2011
Recognition Award for Unending and Tireless Commitment and Support NIDDK 2010 STEP-UP class, 2011
Outstanding Service Award for extraordinary leadership as interim president 2009-2010 CDU Board of Trustees, 2011
Prestigious Award from Estelle for Humanity and the Congress of Racial Equality The Celes King III, 2010
Certificate of Appreciation Church Health Network, 2010
Commitment to Excellence Award National Medical Association Meritorious Achievement Award for Lifetime achievement in medical research and education mirroring the NMA's commitment to promote health and prevent disease, injury, disability and premature dea King/Drew Magnet High School, 2010
America's Leading Doctors Black Enterprise Magazine King/Drew Magnet High School Medicine and Science Careers Program Recognition Award, 2008
Congressional Certificate of Recognition for significant personal contributions and exemplary personal commitment to the cause of improving the health of minority women and their families Congresswomen Diane E. Watson, 33rd Congressional District, 2008
Rogers Society Ambassador for Research America's Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, 2008
Certificate of Commendation County of Los Angeles, Yvonne, Burke, Second Supervisorial District, 2008
Appreciation Award Association of Minority Health Professionals, 2007
Certificate of Appreciation NIH-NIDDK, 2007
recognition award for outstanding achievement and excellence in scientific research and education young minds NIH/NIDDK 2007 undergraduate research symposium, 2007
Medal of Honor finalist American Association of Kidney Patients, 2006
America's Top Physician (Nephrology and Hypertension) Consumers' Research Council of America, 2006
Certificate of Appreciation Auxiliary to the Charles R. Drew Medical Society, 2006
Exemplary Service Award Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine, 2004
Outstanding Volunteer Award Healthy African American Families, 2004
Appreciation Award Saturday Science Academy II, 2004
Hall of Fame (Science) National Black College Alumni, 2003
Faculty commitment Award, Department of Medicine King/Drew Medical Center, 2002
Student Appreciation Award King/Drew Magnet High School, 2002
Pride in Partnership Health Award Alliances for Quality Education, 2002
Recognition Award For Years of Distinguished Leadership NIH/NIDDK Short-term education program for underrepresented persons, 2002
Award of Excellence RCMI, 2001
Distinguished Service Award Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, 2001
Chairman Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Department of Medicine King/Drew Medical Center, 2001
Award of Appreciation American Association of Kidney Patients, Orange County Chapter, 2001
Award for outstanding contribution to the pages of AAKP Renalife Maureen Lundin Renalife, 2001
Appreciation Award for Making the Connection Between Research and Community South Los Angeles Health Project, Black Infant Health, 2001
Certificate of Recognition NIH/NCRR Study Section Advisory, 2001
Leadership Initiative on Cancer Recognition Award: Closing the Gap in the New Millennium in Community Service National Black Health, 2000
"Light of our Life" Recognition Award Southern Area Clergy Council, 2000
M.D. Award for significant personal contributions to the care and well being of kidney patients A. Peter Lundin, 2000
Certificate of Appreciation Black Women for Wellness, 2000
Specialist in Clinical Hypertension American Society of Hypertension, 1999
Faculty Mentor Award Giannini Bank of America, 1998
Certificate of Appreciation Department of Medicine, King/Drew Medical Center, 1998
Amgen Special Recognition Award: NKF-Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative Hemodialysis Adequacy Workgroup Amgen, 1997
Charles R. Drew Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Service in Furthering Student Affairs and the University Mission Charles Drew University, 1996
Special Recognition Award: NKF-Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative Workgroup National Kidney Foundation, 1996
Award of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement, Department of Internal Medicine King/Drew Medical Center, 1992
Best Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Internal Medicine King/Drew Medical Center, 1990
Award for Outstanding Resident of the Year Daniel Hale Williams, 1982
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 1980
Raymond P. Jackson Award (Tutorial Services) 1980
Lange Book Award, Excellence in Internal Medicine Auxiliary Medico- Chirugical Society, 1979
Fellow (ASNF) American Society of Nephrology
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Clinical Trials

African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension ABPM Pilot Study Start of enrollment: 2007 Nov 01
Completed
Phase 2, Phase 3

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Racial Disparities in End-Stage Kidney Disease Outcomes among Asians and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders across Geographic Residence.
Amy S You, Merle Kataoka-Yahiro, James Davis, Victoria Page, Glen Hayashida, Yoko Narasaki, Norris, K., Cheng, S., Ng, R., Wong, L., Lee, L., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Rhee, C.> ;American Journal of Nephrology. 2024 Jan 1
Flattening the Playing Field for Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease.
Keith C Norris, Sandra F Williams, Robert Nee> ;Seminars in Nephrology. 2023 May 1
Receiving hemodialysis in Hispanic ethnic dense communities is associated with better adherence and outcomes among young patients: a retrospective analysis of the Dial...
Ayana K April-Sanders, Angelo Karaboyas, Milagros Yunes, Keith C Norris, Mary Dominguez, Ryung S Kim, Carmen R Isasi, Ladan Golestaneh> ;BMC Nephrology. 2023 Sep 5
4 citations
Prescription of guideline-directed medical therapies in patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease from the CURE-CKD Registry, 2019-2020.
Susanne B Nicholas, Kenn B Daratha, Radica Z Alicic, Cami R Jones, Lindsey M Kornowske, Joshua J Neumiller, Samuel T Fatoba, Sheldon X Kong, Rakesh Singh, Keith C Norr...> ;Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism. 2023 Oct 1
Extreme Heat Can Exacerbate Disproportionate Burden of Severe Kidney Disease in Historically Marginalized Communities: Call to Action.
Earle C Chambers, Keith C Norris, Samantha R Levano, Ladan Golestaneh> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2023 Aug 1
2 citations
Social Determinants of Health and Their Impact on the Black Race Coefficient in Serum Creatinine-Based Estimation of GFR: Secondary Analysis of MDRD and CRIC Studies.
Nwamaka D Eneanya, Ogechi M Adingwupu, Sophia Kostelanetz, Keith C Norris, Tom Greene, Julia B Lewis, Srinivasan Beddhu, Robert Boucher, Shiyuan Miao, Juhi Chaudhari, ...> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2023 Apr 1
7 citations
Racial and ethnic disparities in polycystic ovary syndrome.
Katherine VanHise, Erica T Wang, Keith Norris, Ricardo Azziz, Margareta D Pisarska, Jessica L Chan> ;Fertility and Sterility. 2023 Mar 1
Editorial: Social determinants of kidney health: a global perspective.
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Keith C Norris, Manisha Sahay, Ifeoma I Ulasi> ;Frontiers in Nephrology. 2023 Jan 1
21 citations
Incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease among Adults with Diabetes, 2015-2020.
Katherine R Tuttle, Cami R Jones, Kenn B Daratha, Alain K Koyama, Susanne B Nicholas, Radica Z Alicic, O Kenrik Duru, Joshua J Neumiller, Keith C Norris, Nilka Ríos Bu...> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2022 Oct 13
Heart Disease and Kidney Failure in the Black Community.
Susanne B Nicholas, Keith C Norris> ;Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2022 Oct 1
2 citations
Race, ancestry, and genetic risk for kidney failure.
Susanne B Nicholas, Chandra L Ford, Keith C Norris> ;Cell Reports. Medicine. 2022 Aug 16
3 citations
When Resilience Becomes Risk: A Latent Class Analysis of Psychosocial Resources and Allostatic Load Among African American Men.
Courtney S Thomas Tobin, Ángela Gutiérrez, Christy L Erving, Keith C Norris, Roland J Thorpe Jr> ;American Journal of Men's Health. 2022 Jun 27
1 citations
Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Hypertension Among Black Americans Across Young, Middle, and Older Adulthood.
Courtney S Thomas Tobin, Ángela Gutiérrez, Keith C Norris, Roland J Thorpe> ;The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 2022 Nov 23
2 citations
Autopopulus: A Novel Framework for Autoencoder Imputation on Large Clinical Datasets.
Davina J Zamanzadeh, Panayiotis Petousis, Tyler A Davis, Susanne B Nicholas, Keith C Norris, Katherine R Tuttle, Alex A T Bui, Majid Sarrafzadeh> ;Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2021 Nov 1
Interventions Incorporating Therapeutic Alliance to Improve Medication Adherence in Black Patients with Diabetes, Hypertension and Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review.
Heather E Laferriere, Aades Saluja, Marino A Bruce, Tom A Elasy, Derek M Griffith, Keith C Norris, Kerri L Cavanaugh, Ebele M Umeukeje, Russom Desta, Charlotte Blumrosen> ;Patient Preference and Adherence. 2022 Jan 1
A randomized controlled trial of a shared decision making intervention for diabetes prevention for women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus: The Gestation...
Ruth Madievsky, Amanda Vu, Felicia Cheng, Janet Chon, Norman Turk, Ashley Krueger, Jacob Krong, Richard Maranon, Sandra Liu, Christina S Han, Keith C Norris, Carol Man...> ;Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2023 Jan 1
Practicing health equity in involuntary discharges to overcome disparities in dialysis and kidney patient care.
Dawn P Edwards, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Elani Streja, Rebecca S Ahdoot, Keith C Norris, Donald Molony> ;Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. 2023 Jan 1
Editorial: Strategies for improving hypertension management.
Komal Marwaha, Freny Vaghaiwalla Mody, Indranill Basu-Ray, Keith Curtis Norris> ;Frontiers in Medicine. 2022 Jan 1
8 citations
Overcoming barriers to implementing new guideline-directed therapies for chronic kidney disease.
Robert Nee, Christina M Yuan, Andrew S Narva, Guofen Yan, Keith C Norris> ;Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation. 2023 Feb 28
3 citations
Establishing a Framework for Sustainable Community Action Research.
Malcolm Jones, Danielle Hoague, Raenita Spriggs, Elijah Catalan, Naomi Adams, Timothy Watkins, Aradhna Tripati, Keith C Norris> ;Ethnicity & Disease. 2022 Jan 1
4 citations
Exploring Perspectives on Establishing COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence in Black Communities.
Lisa N Mansfield, Savanna L Carson, Yelba Castellon-Lopez, Alejandra Casillas, D'Ann Morris, Ejiro Ntekume, Juan Barron, Keith C Norris, Arleen F Brown> ;Ethnicity & Disease. 2022 Jan 1
Designing Interventions Addressing Structural Racism to Reduce Kidney Health Disparities: A Report from an NIDDK Workshop.
Deidra Crews, Rachel Patzer, Lilia Cervantes, Richard Knight, Tanjala Purnell, Neil Powe, Dawn Edwards, Keith Norris> ;Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2022 Oct 19
7 citations
Designing Interventions Addressing Structural Racism to Reduce Kidney Health Disparities: A Report from a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disea...
Deidra C Crews, Rachel E Patzer, Lilia Cervantes, Richard Knight, Tanjala S Purnell, Neil R Powe, Dawn P Edwards, Keith C Norris> ;Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2022 Dec 1
1 citations
Race and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients in Brazil.
Marcelo Barreto Lopes, Márcia Tereza Silveira-Martins, Fernanda Albuquerque da Silva, Luciana Ferreira Silva, Maria Tereza Silva-Martins, Cácia M Matos, Angiolina C Kr...> ;Kidney Medicine. 2022 Dec 1
2 citations
Age-Related Association between Multimorbidity and Mortality in US Veterans with Incident Chronic Kidney Disease.
Nilka Ríos Burrows, Alain K Koyama, Devasmita Choudhury, Wei Yu, Meda E Pavkov, Robert Nee, Alfred K Cheung, Keith C Norris, Guofen Yan> ;American Journal of Nephrology. 2022 Jan 1
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Journal Articles

Removal of Race from Estimates of Kidney Function
Keith C Norris, Nwamaka D Eneanya, JAMA

Authored Content

US Renal Data System 2017 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United StatesFebruary 2018

Press Mentions

New Onset Chronic Kidney Disease in People with Diabetes Highest Among Ethnic, Racial MinoritiesOctober 28th, 2022
CIRM Grant Will Help Expand Patients’ Access to UCLA Clinical Trials for Stem Cell, Gene TherapiesOctober 27th, 2022
Some Doctors Want to Change How Race Is Used in MedicineJune 10th, 2022
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Grant Support

UCLA Clinical and Translational Research InstituteNIH-NCATS2022–2027
NIH National High School Student Summer Research ProgramNIH-NIDDK2022–2027
The Center for Health Improvement of Minority ElderlyNIH-NIA2019–2024
NIH Diversity Program Consortium Coordination and Evaluation Center at UCLANIH-NIGMS2014–2024
Differential Survival Selections and Care-Related Determinants among African Americans and Hispanics Versus Whites With Chronic Kidney Disease.NIH-NIDDK2017–2023
HBCU PRIDENIH-NHLBI2014–2023
Cluster-Randomized Trial of Pharmacist-Coordinated Implementation of the DPPNIH-NIDDK2015–2019
International Conference on Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged PopulationsNIH-NIDDK2013–2018

Professional Memberships

American Society of Nephrology - ASN
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