Bekir Tanriover, MD, MPH, MBA, FAST

Chief, Division of Nephrology
Professor, Medicine - (Clinical Scholar Track)

UAHS 6325

520-626-6371
btanriover@arizona.edu

Dr. Tanriover is a transplant nephrologist who takes care of kidney-pancreas transplant patients, and is a researcher with expertise in comparative effectiveness research, health economics, decision sciences, cost analyses, patient-centered outcomes research and big data analysis. His interdisciplinary team has examined efficiency in multi-organ allocation, decreasing discard rate in kidney transplantation, and economical analysis of induction therapy in kidney transplantation. Over a 10-year period, he has mentored more than 20 undergraduate students, medical students, nephrology fellows, doctoral candidates and junior faculty.

He is a member of the American Society of Nephrology (2004-present), the American Society of Transplantation (2004-present) and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (2016-present).

Degree(s)

  • MD: Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 1993
  • MBA: University of Texas, Dallas, 2019
  • MPH: Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York City, 2013
Residency
Tulane University, Internal Medicine, 1995-1998
Fellowship
Vanderbilt University, Transplant Nephrology, 2003-2004
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nephrology, 1998-2000
Honors and Awards
KM1 Junior Faculty Career Development Grant on Comparative Effectiveness Research: NIH-1KM1CA156709-01 (2011-2013), the Columbia University Health Sciences, New York, NY.
Research Interests

renal epidemiology, solid organ transplant outcomes, cost-effectiveness