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Carmen Peralta, MD
Chief Clinical Officer, Interwell Health
Dr. Carmen A. Peralta, MD, MAS, FASN is Chief Clinical Officer at Interwell Health. She brings her deep clinical experience in treating persons with kidney diseases and hypertension, as well as expertise in epidemiology, use of healthcare data, predictive analytics, study design, and implementation sciences to deploy a patient-focused model of care that delivers real results and helps people living with kidney disease live their best lives. She has won several prestigious awards including the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award as well as Fierce Healthcare’s Top 10 Most Influential Minority Healthcare Executives in 2020. Dr. Peralta co-founded and served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Kidney Health Research Collaborative (KHRC) at the University of California San Francisco, and her research has been published extensively. She earned her medical degree at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed her nephrology fellowship and earned a Master’s Degree in Clinical Research at UCSF.