Dr. Charles A. Herzog MD, FACC, Director, Cardiovascular Special Studies Center, United Stated Renal Data System; Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota; Director, Echocardiography Laboratory
Charles A. Herzog, MD, FACC, is Director of the Cardiovascular Special Studies Center, United States Renal Data System (USRDS). An investigator at the USRDS since 1999, Dr. Herzog has been a cardiologist at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis and a member of the University of Minnesota faculty for 26 years. He has been a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota since 2004 and the cardiology consultant to the ESRD program (dialysis and renal transplant) at HCMC since 1985. He founded the program in interventional cardiology and served as the director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at HCMC from 1985 to 1991. Since 1997, Dr. Herzog has been the director of the cardiac ultrasound laboratory at HCMC. He participated in the development of the National Kidney Foundation’s K/DOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease in Dialysis Patients and the workgroup for the KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines on Acute Kidney Injury, and co-chaired the 2010 KDIGO Controversies Conference, "Cardiovascular Disease in CKD: What is it and What Can We Do About It?" The author or co-author of more than 100 published papers and reviews, Dr. Herzog has served on the Editorial Board for the American Heart Journal since 2005 and as liaison editor (cardiology) for Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation since 2007. Areas of research and special interests include cardiac disease and chronic kidney disease, and echocardiography.
