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Alka Kanaya, UC San Francisco

Professor of Medicine,
Medicine
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Dr. Alka Kanaya is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics and a practicing general internist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received an MD in 1995 and completed an internal medicine residency and fellowship training at UCSF in 2001. Dr. Kanaya has focused her research on type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention, specifically to identify and understand the causes for Asian American health disparities. She is the lead investigator for the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study, a community-based prospective cohort to identify sociocultural, behavioral, and biologic risk factors to explain the high rates of type 2 diabetes and heart disease among South Asians. The MASALA study has influenced U.S. screening guidelines.

Email: alka.kanaya@ucsf.edu
Website: masalastudy.org
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