Anupam Agarwal, M.D., was named Interim Senior Vice President for Medicine and Dean of the School of Medicine on Feb. 8, 2013. Agarwal, an international leader in nephrology and acute kidney injury research, joined UAB as an associate professor in 2003 and was promoted to professor in 2005. He was appointed division director for Nephrology in 2008 and vice chair for Research for the Department of Medicine in 2009. He was appointed to the Marie S. Ingalls Endowed Chair in Nephrology Leadership in April 2011. He served as interim chair of the Department of Medicine from August 2011 until August 2012. His research has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1997.

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