Dr. Naimark is an associate professor, Department of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), and full member of the School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto. He joined the Faculty of Medicine as a staff nephrologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in 1997 with an interest in the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD). He holds a cross-appointment in the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He developed the electronic medical record used at Sunnybrook which was used to develop the Kidney Failure Risk Equation, to predict progression to kidney failure from stage 3 – 5 CKD. The resulting work was published in JAMA, has been widely cited, converted into a smart-phone application, validated internationally, and is used to determine eligibility for multidisciplinary funding for CKD patients in Ontario. Dr. Naimark is an active member of the CKD Prognosis Consortium (CKD-PC), an international group of 45 databases containing 11 million CKD patients. He is director of the advanced decision analysis course at IHPME and has taught or mentored seventy graduate students with respect to sophisticated decision modeling techniques since his appointment. These computer simulations focus on individual persons or patients allowing for interactions of relevance for infectious disease transmission, competition for scarce resources and many other clinical and public health scenarios.