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Carmen A. Peralta, MD, MAS, is chief medical officer at Habitat Health, an organization designed to help older adults overcome the challenges of aging at home by supporting participants to live independently in their homes and communities with comprehensive whole-person care. She is also volunteer professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Prior to her current role, Carmen was founding Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Health, an organization built to change care of persons with kidney disease to focus on early detection and treatment in a value-based care framework. Following a merger, Carmen then served as Chief Clinical Officer for Interwell Health, the leading provider of value-based kidney care in the U.S. Carmen is well known for her work in advancing the understanding of early kidney disease and hypertension. She also served as co-founder and ED of the Kidney Health Research Collaborative at UCSF, which is the leading research group dedicated to early detection of kidney disease. Carmen is a passionate advocate for the care of underserved persons, including persons of racial/ethnic minority groups and the elderly. She has received many academic honors, has published over 150 academic articles, and her work has been supported by the NIH, the American Heart Association, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was recognized as a top diversity leader by Modern Healthcare in 2023. Carmen grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia. She completed her undergraduate degree at Rice University and her MD at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She trained in internal medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and then trained in nephrology and obtained a Master of Advanced Studies in clinical research at UCSF. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2008, where she ascended to full professor in residence in 2018. Carmen is a Fellow of the fifth class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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