Katherine R. Tuttle, MD, FASN, FACP, FNKF, is Executive Director for Research at Providence Inland Northwest Health and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. Dr. Tuttle’s collective body of work has shaped the “pillars of therapy“ approach to chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease in a fundamental manner across the spectrum of scientific discovery, clinical trials, and population level implementation. She is chair of the Diabetic Kidney Disease Collaborative for the American Society of Nephrology and a member of the Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic working group for the American Heart Association.