Michael J. Klag

Michael John Klag (born 1952) is an American internist and epidemiologist. For eight years, he was the Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and was the first Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Throughout his tenure at Johns Hopkins, Klag focused on the risk factors for, prevalence of and effective intervention strategies for kidney disease. He was among the first to raise the alarm of kidney disease epidemic across the United States and associate the risk of developing kidney disease with blood pressure, diabetes, race, socioeconomic status and other factors. Provided by Wikipedia