Dr. Lesley Inker is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and attending physician and Director of the Kidney and Blood Pressure Center in the Division of Nephrology at Tufts Medical Center and.  Dr. Inker’s primary research interests are in kidney function measurement and estimation and alternative endpoints for clinical trials of kidney disease progression.  She also serves as co-principal investigator or training director for the Tufts K12 Junior Faculty programs and is Director of the Tufts Clinical Translational Research Center (CTRC).