Dr. John Kusek
DKUHD
KIDNEY & UROLOGY BRANCH
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Building 2DEM, Room 617
6707 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20817
Tel: 301-594-7735
Fax: 301-480-3510
Email: kusekj@mail.nih.gov
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Current Position:
Senior Scientific Advisor, Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases
Current Portfolio/Responsibilities:
• Epidemiological studies and clinical trials in urology and chronic kidney disease
• Strategy development for designing national programs to prevent and treat chronic diseases (chronic kidney disease, non-malignant urologic conditions, lung and respiratory diseases)
• Program evaluation of treatment interventions (design, analysis and interpretation of randomized clinical trials)
• Design, analysis and interpretation of population-based studies (observational epidemiologic studies).
Program management and scientific involvement with the following studies either solely or in collaboration with Division staff:
• The Folic Acid for Vascular Outcome Reduction (FAVORIT) Trial
• The Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey
• The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study
• The Urinary Incontinence treatment (UITN) Network
• The Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Urological Symptoms (CAMUS)
• The Oral versus IV iron trial
• The Hemodialysis Fistula Network Cohort Study
• The Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Pelvic Pain (MAPP)
Previous Training and Experience:
1979 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1979-1983: Faculty, Department of Epidemiology and Biometry, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
1983-1989: Division of Lung Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
1989 to present: Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, NIDDK
Page last updated: September 16, 2010