Dr. Tibor Fulop is a summa cum laude graduate of the Semmelweis Medical University of Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his postgraduate medical training at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and the University Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. He is currently board certified in both internal medicine and nephrology and actively engaged in clinical care, teaching, and research. Altogether, he published or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and participated in several local and nation-wide epidemiologic cohort studies, including Jackson Heart Study, ARIC, and CARe initiative, while on the faculty of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. He mentored numerous trainees in the past and presents regularly at both regional and national meetings. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Society of Nephrology and has membership in multiple national and international societies. His clinical interests include intensive care unit nephrology, home-based renal replacement therapies, renal procedures, medical prevention of kidney stones, and renal vasculitis. Dr. Fulop is named among the Top Doctors in America in nephrology.