10/03/2024

Peter Igarashi, MD

Peter Igarashi, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and Knapp Dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. Born in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Igarashi earned his BS in Biomedical Sciences from the University of California, Riverside, and his MD from the UCLA School of Medicine. Upon completing his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of California Davis Medical Center, Dr. Igarashi completed his Nephrology Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine, where he also began his career in academic medicine as a member of the university faculty from 1987 until 1999. In 1999, Dr. Igarashi was recruited to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, as Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Nephrology. While there, he held the Robert Tucker Hayes Distinguished Chair in Nephrology, in Honor of Dr. Floyd C. Rector, Jr., and became the founding director of UT Southwestern’s O’Brien Kidney Research Core Center. In 2014, Dr. Igarashi joined the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he served as Nesbitt Chair, Professor, and Head of the Department of Medicine before coming to Stony Brook University in September 2022 and assuming his position as Dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine. A nationally recognized nephrologist and an active NIH-funded physician-scientist with research interests in polycystic kidney disease (PKD), Dr. Igarashi is the recipient of more than $25 million in NIH grant support. He has published more than 130 articles and chapters, and he has served on numerous editorial and scientific advisory boards and study sections. In addition to being elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, Dr. Igarashi is the recipient of an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, an NIH MERIT Award, and the Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease, the highest honor for PKD research.