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Bio
Internal Medicine Division Chair, Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
Dr. Raj Halker is the division chair of Internal Medicine at Texas Health Fort Worth. He received his medical degree from Bangalore Medical College in Bangalore‚ India. He completed internship and residency programs at Michigan State University in Kalamazoo‚ Michigan, followed by a fellowship in nephrology with interventional nephrology training at Saint Louis University and John Cochran VA Hospital in Saint Louis‚ Missouri. Dr. Halker also earned a master of public health degree in epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Halker is board-certified in both internal medicine and nephrology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Halker is a member of the Texas Medical Association‚ Tarrant County Medical Society‚ the American Society of Nephrology‚ the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology and the Renal Physicians Association.