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Disparities in the Treatment of CKD and Efforts to Slow Progression

Moro Salifu Moro Salifu, MD, is professor and chair of the department of medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, and Susanne B. Nicholas, MD, MPH, PhD, is associate professor of medicine in the divisions of nephrology and endocrinology, department of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California.

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Susanne B. Nicholas Moro Salifu, MD, is professor and chair of the department of medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, and Susanne B. Nicholas, MD, MPH, PhD, is associate professor of medicine in the divisions of nephrology and endocrinology, department of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California.

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