Kidney disease has infected 31 million people in the United States. Just like your lungs or your heart, you need your kidneys in order to live.
Special guest, Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez, joins Wellness for Life Radio to share information on how to keep your kidneys healthy and how to prevent kidney disease.
Orlando M. Gutiérrez, M.D., M.M.Sc., obtained his medical degree from the University of Toledo College of Medicine in 2002. He then completed internship and residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 2002 to 2005, and a clinical and research fellowship in nephrology from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Joint Nephrology Training Program in 2008. With the support of an American Kidney Fund Clinical Scientist in Nephrology Fellowship award, he completed a Masters in Medical Science degree in human clinical investigation from Harvard Medical School during his fellowship, graduating as the valedictorian of his class. Dr. Gutiérrez joined the faculty of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in 2008. He was then recruited to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2011, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health. In addition, he serves as the section head for outcomes and epidemiology research in the Division of Nephrology at UAB.