Steven M. Brunelli, MD, is vice president of research at DaVita. Before joining DaVita, he was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he directed an active clinical research group that focused on chronic kidney disease, pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics, dialysis outcomes epidemiology and ran the hospital’s dialysis service.
Dr. Brunelli also has served on advisory committees for the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and has served on numerous editorial boards for nephrology journals. He completed medical school and earned a Master of Science degree in clinical epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania.