Career
He is currently professor emeritus at David Geffen University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine and University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health. He served from 1981 to 2007 as the chief of the Division of Nephrology at Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. He is also known as the father of the field of Renal Nutrition To recognize the contributions of Joel Kopple to advancing the field of Renal Nutrition, the National Kidney Foundation and its Council on Renal Nutrition designated the "in Renal Nutrition, which is annually granted to a distinguished individual for his/her efforts to advance the field of renal nutrition.
Kopple has authored or coauthored several hundred peer-reviewed manuscripts.
He has funded several organizations including the International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism and the International Federation of National Kidney Foundations. He is currently helping a group of students from Bergen Academies on an ISTF project
