Bekir Tanriover, MD, MPH, MBA, FAST

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

UAHS 6325

(520) 626-6371
btanriover@arizona.edu

Dr. Bekir Tanriover is currently Professor of Internal Medicine and the Chief of Nephrology at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine-Tucson. He is a transplant nephrologist who takes care of kidney-pancreas transplant patients at University of Arizona-Banner University Medical Center. He 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. He has mentored more than 20 undergraduate students, medical students, nephrology fellows, PhD candidates, junior faculty over 10 years period.

Professional Associations & Affiliations:

  • American Society of Nephrology (2004-present)
  • American Society of Transplantation (2004-present)
  • American Society of Transplant Surgeons (2016-Present)

Degree(s)

  • MD: Hacettepe University - Ankara, Turkey, 1993
  • MPH: Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University - New York City, NY, 2013
  • MBA: The University of Texas - Dallas, TX, 2019
Residency
Tulane University, Internal Medicine, 1995-1998
Fellowship
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nephrology, 1998-2000
Vanderbilt University, Transplant Nephrology, 2003-2004
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.