Dr. Coresh is the Founding Director of the Optimal Aging Institute and the Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor of Population Health and Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. The institute leverages epidemiologic cohorts to advance discovery, prevention and treatment of aging related diseases. Dr. Coresh continues to co-lead of the ARIC Neurocognitive Study renewal and CKD Prognosis Consortium as well as start new initiatives. Dr. Coresh is an international expert in aging and vascular disease epidemiology of the brain, heart and kidney, using a range of epidemiology and data science methods. Dr. Coresh is among the most cited researcher having co-authored articles cited over 300,000 times according to Google Scholar.