Dr. Falk is an international expert in vasculitis and autoimmune kidney disease whose career spans more than three decades. His practice and translational research focus on characterizing the cell, tissue, and physiologic changes in the development of specific autoimmune kidney diseases and developing new approaches for studying autoimmunity, inflammation, and basic neutrophil/monocyte biology. He earned National Institutes of Health honors for seminal work as a physician-scientist and delivered the National Institute of Health Astute Clinician Lecture in 2016. He was honored by the New York Academy of Medicine in 2016 with the Edward N. Gibbs Lectureship and Award in Nephrology: a lifetime achievement award.