Dr. Crystal Gadegbeku Part of Joint National Kidney Foundation-American Society of Nephrology Task Force

Crystal A. Gadegbeku, MD, FAHA, FACP, FASN, Chief of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation at Temple University Hospital; and Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair of Community Outreach in the Department of Medicine and Associate Professor in the Center for Asian Health at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, is part of a joint National Kidney Foundation-American Society of Nephrology task force formed to focus on the use of race to estimate glomerular filtration rate, or GFR. The task force plans to provide its initial recommendations later this year. Kidney News Online covered the news.