Phone: 415.476.2173
Fax: 415.476.3381
E-mail: CarmenAlicia.Peralta@ucsf.edu

College:	Rice University, BA
Medical School:	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD
Other Graduate Training:	University of California, San Francisco, MAS
Internal Medicine Residency:	Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nephrology Fellowship:	University of California, San Francisco

Interests

Clinical and Research: risk factors for early kidney dysfunction, vascular disease and kidney dysfunction, racial disparities in kidney disease

Scholarly and Creative Activities (selected)

Carmen A. Peralta, Leroi Hicks, Glenn Chertow, Eric Vittinghoff, Feng Lin, John Ayanian, Michael Shlipak. "Control of Hypertension in Adults in Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States". Hypertension. 2005. Jun; 45(6):1119-24.

Carmen A. Peralta, Mary A. Whooley, Joachim H. Ix, Michael G. Shlipak. "Kidney Function and Systolic Blood Pressure – New insights from Cystatin C:" Am J Hypertens. 2006 Sep;19(9):939-46.

Carmen A. Peralta, Michael G. Shlipak, Dongjie Fan, Juan Ordoñez, James P. Lash, Glenn M. Chertow, Alan S. Go. "Risks for End-Stage Renal Disease, Cardiovascular Events, and Death in Hispanic versus non-Hispanic White Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease" J Am Soc Nephrol. 2006 Oct;17(10):2892-9.

Carmen A. Peralta, Elad Ziv, Ronit Katz, Alex Reiner, Pui Kwok, Esteban Burchard, Linda Freid, Bruce Psaty, Michael G. Shlipak "African Ancestry, Socioeconomic Status and Kidney Function in Elderly African Americans: A Genetic Admixture Analysis" J Am Soc Nephrol., 2006. Dec; 17 (12) 3491-6.

Carmen A. Peralta, Michael G. Shlipak, Christina Wassel-Fyr, Hayden Bosworth, Brian Hoffman, Susana Martins, Eugene Oddone, Mary K. Goldstein. "Association of Antihypertensive Therapy and Diastolic Hypotension in Chronic Kidney Disease." Hypertension.2007 Sep;50(3):474-80

Bryan Kestenbaum, Kyle D. Rudser, Ian de Boer, Carmen A. Peralta, Linda F. Fried, Michael G. Shlipak, Walter Palmas, Catherine Stehman-Breen, David S. Siscovick. "Subclinical Differences in Kidney Function and Incident Hypertension: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis." Annals Intern Med.. 2008 Apr 1;148(7):501-8.

For more publications: PubMed for Peralta, CA