Kidney Failure is Solvable

About this episode

Dr. Carmen Peralta discusses improving kidney health outcomes and resources available for patients and doctors.

Dr. Carmen Peralta is the Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Health. She co-founded the Kidney Health Research Collaborative at University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She works to provide support to patients, doctors and all the steps in between to improve kidney health outcomes. Dr. Peralta recommends these sites to learn more: CDC Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/index.html UCSF Kidney Health Research Collaborative https://khrc.ucsf.edu/ Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, Lisa Dunn and Keishel Wiliams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and our executive producer is Mia Lobel. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Carmen Peralta

Topics covered

• kidney health
• patient support
• medical research
• chronic illness
• health outcomes

Keywords

• kidney failure
• chronic kidney disease
• health research
• patient care
• medical support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cricket Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CDC Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative, UCSF Kidney Health Research Collaborative

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