President
Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Renal Division
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Dr. Kirk Campbell is the C. Mahlon Kline Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He joined Penn from the Icahn School of Medicine in New York where he served as the Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Professor of Pharmacological Sciences. Dr. Campbell held a number of leadership roles at Mount Sinai including serving as the founding Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Kidney Disease Innovation, Nephrology Fellowship Director and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine.
Dr. Campbell graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital followed by clinical and postdoctoral research fellowships in Nephrology at Mount Sinai. In addition to treating patients with kidney disease, Dr. Campbell leads an NIH-funded research program focused on developing new therapeutic interventions for proteinuric diseases. He actively participates in clinical trials testing novel agents for primary glomerular disease and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
He is a Past-President of the New York Society of Nephrology and a member of the Board of Directors of the NephCure Foundation. He is the current President of the National Kidney Foundation and Chairs its Scientific Advisory Board.
As a principal investigator (PI) for multiple clinical trials in the rare kidney disease space, Campbell understands all too well the challenges faced by patients, as he has seen close friends affected by it as well.