Talat Ikizler MD

Summary

• Dr. Talat "Alp" Ikizler is the Director of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Vice-Chair for Clinical
  Research, Department of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, and Catherine McLaughlin
  Hakim Chair in Vascular Biology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  (VUSM) in Nashville, Tennessee. He specializes in hypertension, nutrition, general nephrology, acute renal failure, and chronic kidney disease. He completed both his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Nephrology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has multiple notable publications which include topics on infection prevention in dialysis patients, impaired incretin homeostasis in non-diabetic moderate-severe chronic kidney disease, and the impact of a wearable activity tracker on patients in hemodialysis. He has performed clinical trials on nutrition, inflammation and insulin resistance in end-stage renal disease, and prevention and treatment of hemodialysis vascular access malfunction. Dr. Ikizler was honored as an Elected Member from The American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2005 and the Association of American Physicians in 2018.