Dr. Lakhmir S. Chawla is the Chief Medical Officer of Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals and previously was CMO at La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company (LJPC). Prior to joining LJPC, Dr. Chawla was a Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University, where he has dual appointments in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine as well as in the Department of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension. Dr. Chawla presents a lecture on "Acute Kidney Injury" as part of the DC5 lecture series.