Richard Lafayette, MD

Dr. Richard Lafayette is Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at the Stanford University Medical Center. He is the founder and director of the Stanford Glomerular Disease Center and its fellowship training program. He is an original member of the Stanford Amyloid Center. He earned his medical degree at New York Medical College, trained in Internal Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and in nephrology at Stanford University.

He has a longstanding interest in glomerular disease with a focus on IgA nephropathy. This interest has led to many evaluations and some elucidation of the pathogenesis of kidney disease and leadership in many clinical trials. He has more than 25 years of clinical experience and has more than 125 publications including more than 75 peer reviewed papers. He remains passionate in his efforts to discover safer and more effective treatments for patients.

Representative Publications:

Kidney Transplantation Rates Across Glomerulonephritis Subtypes in the United States
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Rituximab in IgA Nephropathy With Proteinuria and Renal Dysfunction
Profiling of Autoantibodies in Iga Nephropathy, an Integrative Antibiomics Approach
Associations of Serologic Markers of Infection and Inflammation With Vascular Disease Events and Mortality in American Dialysis