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Leadership

Our leadership strives to foster stability and growth, while bringing a commitment to new clinical research innovations.

DaVita Clinical Research® Leadership

Fostering stability, growth, and a commitment to new clinical research innovations, the DaVita Clinical Research® team is dedicated to advancing the knowledge and practice of clinical research with a unique perspective that only a provider-based Renal Research Site Network can provide.

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Steven Brunelli MD, MSCE

Vice President and Medical Director of Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Prior to joining DCR, he was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he directed an active clinical research group focusing on chronic… Read more

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Francesca Tentori, MD, MSCI

Medical Director, VP, DaVita Outcomes Research and Patient Empowerment

Francesca Tentori, MD, MS is the medical director of outcomes research and patient empowerment at DaVita and an adjunct instructor in medicine at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tentori is an internationally… Read more